Taiwan Through Foreign Eyes: Stories from the Miracle Days

Fourteen authors – raised in the West and steeped in the culture of their second home – portray, in realistic fiction, Taiwan in the 1990s: pubs and artists and gangsters and deadly honor. There were never times like these, and there never will be again. Like the rest of the modern world, Taiwan has “moved on”, leaving its funky folk ways behind. Where can modern Westerners contact this lost culture? Here, in this book.How to avoid a police roadblock? How to get rid of a language mooch? Avenge a sister? Find a thief? What’s it like to bathe with your Taiwanese grandfather? Or attend his funeral? What does it take to stay out of the madhouse? Answers found within.