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  • Tale蕃族調查報告書Sayama Yūkichi · 1915not translated into EnglishThe customs and legends of the first inhabitants of Taiwan, recorded by a commission of the Japanese colonial government at the beginning of the twentieth century.Literature
  • Short storyThe Newspaper Carrier新聞配達夫Yang Kui · 1934The story in Japanese that made a Taiwanese writer known in colonial Japan, an account of the exploitation of a young emigrant.Literature
  • NovelOrphan of Asiaアジアの孤児Wu Zhuoliu · 1946A Taiwanese regarded as Japanese by the Chinese and as Chinese by the Japanese, written in the midst of war, under the surveillance of the colonial police.Literature
  • NovelMemories of Peking: South Side Stories城南舊事Lin Haiyin · 1960Childhood stories published in Taiwan in 1960, in which a little girl discovers the adult world in Beijing in the twenties.Literature
  • Short storyThe Gong鑼Huang Chun-ming · 1969The long story of a town crier ruined by loudspeakers, by the great storyteller of Taiwan's common people.Literature
  • Short storiesTaipei People臺北人Pai Hsien-yung · 1971The exiles from the mainland, who took refuge in Taiwan after 1949, seen by a writer who was himself part of that exodus.Literature
  • NovelFamily Catastrophe家變Wang Wen-hsing · 1973Taiwan's great modernist novel, in which a son turns against filial piety.Literature
  • NarrativeStories of the Sahara撒哈拉的故事Sanmao · 1976Stories from 1976 about the life of a Taiwanese woman and her Spanish husband in the Western Sahara.Literature
  • Poetry北斗行Yang Mu · 1978not translated into EnglishA poetry collection from 1978, published in Taipei by the publisher that its author had helped to found.Literature
  • NovelThe Butcher's Wife殺夫Li Ang · 1983The short novel that caused a scandal in Taiwan in 1983 by depicting a woman imprisoned by custom.Literature
  • CinemaA City of Sadness悲情城市Hou Hsiao-hsien · 1989The first Taiwanese film to show the 1947 massacre and the beginnings of the White Terror.Cinema
  • CinemaA Brighter Summer Day牯嶺街少年殺人事件Edward Yang · 1991A generation born of the exile of 1949 grows up under martial law, between the White Terror, neighbourhood gangs and American rock.Cinema
  • CinemaSecret Love in Peach Blossom Land暗戀桃花源Stan Lai · 1992The author's own adaptation of the play that was the first success of modern theatre in Taiwan.Cinema
  • NovelNotes of a Desolate Man荒人手記Chu T'ien-wen · 1994The notebooks of a grieving Taiwanese homosexual, written by a great screenwriter of the island's cinema.Literature