Chang Hsi-kuo is considered the “father of science fiction” in Taiwan. He is the author of twenty-eight novels, a collection of short stories, and hundreds of scientific papers. He is also a professor of computer science and Director of the Center for Parallel, Distributed, and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh.
9 Ebooks by John Balcom
Hsi-kuo Chang: The City Trilogy
Taiwan’s most innovative science fiction writer presents three tales of intrigue, espionage, betrayal, political strife, time travel, and Chinese history and mysticism. After thousands of years of ci …
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€42.99
Qiao Li: Wintry Night
An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan’s history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from t …
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€32.99
Songfen Guo: Running Mother and Other Stories
Guo Songfen’s short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout from such eve …
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€37.99
Naiqian Cao: There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night
Set among a remote cluster of cave dwellings in Shanxi province, There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is a genre-defying exposé of rural communism. In a series of vivid, interlo …
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€40.99
Fan Huang: Zero and Other Fictions
Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan’s literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires that captured the reading public’s attention. After decades of innovative work, he …
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€28.99
Rui Li: Trees Without Wind
Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Di …
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€25.99
Yang Mu: Memories of Mount Qilai
Hualien, on the Pacific coast of eastern Taiwan, and its mountains, especially Mount Qilai, were deeply inspirational for the young poet Yang Mu. A place of immense natural beauty and cultural hetero …
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€54.99
Chi Pang-yuan: The Great Flowing River
Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. In this e …
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€37.99
John Balcom: Short Stories in Chinese
A dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first time This new volume of eight short stories offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide ran …
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€21.77
