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Book Talk - Exploring Taiwan with Miss Chizuru: The Fictional Craft of Taiwan Travelogue
BOOK TALK
EXPLORING TAIWAN WITH MISS CHIZURU:
THE FICTIONAL CRAFT OF TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE
How can a Taiwanese novel incorporate historical materials from its decades under Japanese colonial rule? How does two women’s travelogue become a work of fiction? This talk explores Taiwan Travelogue’s use of a “Shōwa Taiwan Railway Gourmet Tour” as its storytelling framework, including the novel’s inspirations, development, research, fieldwork, archives-building, and writing process.
Speaker Bio
Yáng Shuang-zi is a versatile writer from Taichung, Taiwan, known for her fiction, essays, manga scripts, and literary criticism. Her notable works include The Season When Flowers Bloom (2017), Taiwan Travelogue (2020), and No. 1, Siwei Street (2023). In 2024, the English version of Taiwan Travelogue won the National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Translator Bio
Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review and Joyland, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is the translator of Taiwan Travelogue.
