Literature as a Method, Returning to Showa Taiwan: The Fictional Project of Taiwan Travelogue
Speaker: Writer Yang Shuangzi 📅 16.08 (Saturday) 7:00PM
📍 eslite Forum, Eslite Malaysia
The Taiwan described by Yang Shuangzi is both real and fictional.
She uses novels as a method to lead readers into Taipei during the Showa era, and through the interweaving of reality and fiction, she reconstructs forgotten historical memories and local culture.
In this lecture, she will share her creative and reading experiences, and how novels can dialogue with history in fiction, allowing us to see how a work, in the name of literature, imagines a Taiwanese time and space that never existed but is extremely real.
This is not just a lecture, but more like a workshop where history and literature intersect. We invite you to travel through time and space to witness how novels communicate with history.
📝 Speaker Profile｜Yang Shuangzi
Her real name is Yang Ruoci. She was born in 1984 in Wuri, Taichung, Taiwan. She is the older sister of twins.
A Taiwanese historical novelist and observer of the anime and manga subculture and popular literature, he has won the Golden Tripod Award for his novels, the Golden Manga Award for his manga originals, and the Openbook Book of the Year Award for his essays. The Japanese translation of his book "Taiwan Travels" won the Japan Translation Award, while the English translation received the National Book Award for Translated Literature and the Asia Society's H. P. Fong Book Award for Translated Literature. His recent works include "No. 1 Siwei Street" and "Old Taichung, Let's Go!"
👤 About the Interviewer | Lin Weidi
Writer, physician, and cultural publisher. Born in Malaysia, his work spans poetry, fiction, and prose, including Flashback, The Vanishing Country of You and Me, The Doctor, and So. Focusing on social memory, local culture, and Malaysian Chinese literature, he has dedicated many years to publishing and independent bookstores.
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