“Writing Taiwan . . . provides us one of the many creative ways of narrating Taiwan, reminding us that hybridity and difference are not a destination but a point of departure for our re-examination of the extremely rich heritage of Taiwan literature. In an era in which the borders of literature are being constantly redrawn and the legitimacy of literature renegotiated, this volume should be received more as a memento of a self-reflexive attitude toward literary history than an attempt to revise existing literary historiography.” — Pei-Yin Lin, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
“Writing Taiwan is the first study in English to examine the complex, multifaceted development of Taiwanese literature from the early 1930s to the late 1990s. This excellent book contains 16 essays written by scholars from Taiwan, North America and elsewhere.” — Josephine Chiu-Duke, Pacific Affairs
“Writing Taiwan speaks to the legacy of Taiwan literature, including its volatility, conflicting impulses and cornucopia of ideologies and literary innovations. The integrity of the volume and the individual essays reflects the achievement of ideals that are scholarly, technical, and intellectual, together with a welcome editorial decision not to sacrifice excellence for the sake of a speedy production. . . . I highly recommend this outstanding contribution to any reader who wishes to understand more about Taiwan, its cultural complexity, vibrant history and the intrinsic merit of its intellectual tradition.” — Rosemary Haddon, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies,
“[An] excellent book. . . . this is a conference volume, but either because conference planners were careful in extending invitations and assigning topics or because editors Wang and Rojas did masterful work in sorting and sifting submissions, Writing Taiwan succeeds in mustering disparate voices to address the central topic of the way in which Taiwan has been narrated into existence.” — Thomas Morgan, Chinese Literature,
“The volume, in fact, works wonderfully as a useful guide for literary scholars, pointing to accessible pathways to a very rich field for research and provocatively reconfiguring the current shape of Chinese literary studies. Anyone who is interested in transnational literary studies, particularly in relation to Asian literature and literatures in Chinese, will find something in this volume to help construct new theoretical and referential frameworks for his or her research.” — Kuei-Fen Chiu, Journal of Asian Studies,
“These studies are about as objective as can be found in a field of study in which scholarly attitude and political motivation are often difficult to separate . . . Recommended.” — J. W. Walls, Choice
“This volume is, by design, a tribute to the richness and diversity of Taiwan’s literary achievement . . . . This volume broaches new ways of looking at Taiwan literature, transcending some concerns of its own time, but more generally reflecting them.” — Jeffrey C. Kinkley, The China Review
“This is an original project, difficult to achieve, that updates scholarship on the literature of Taiwan. Its originality is strong and welcome.” — Edward Gunn, author of Rewriting Chinese: Style and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Chinese Prose