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  • Indigenous Cultural Translation

    A Thick Description of Seediq Bale

    by Darryl Sterk ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language. Seediq Bale celebrates the headhunters who rebelled against or collaborated with the Japanese colonizers at or around a hill station called Musha starting on October 27, 1930, while this book celebrates the grandchildren of ... Read more

    Was $89.31 CAD Now $79.69 CAD

  • The Bear Whispers to Me

    The Story of a Bear and a Boy

    Translated by Darryl Sterk ...
    by Ying-Tai Chang ...
    A reclusive young boy stumbles upon his father's diary. Filled with drawings, photos and anecdotes, the diary reveals an alpine world that his father once inhabited as a child: where tribes were fashioned by tree spirits; animals could be spoken to; fleas danced; and the moon and stars were guiding lights in darkling forests. His father's world was alive with birdsong and hidden spirits, serene ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Taiwanese Ecoliterature Reader

    Edited by Ian Rowen, Ti-han Chang, Darryl Sterk ...
    An Indigenous hunter laments the decline in the flying squirrel population and reflects on how animals perceive the world. In a drought-stricken cyberpunk anytown, kids revolt against the grown-ups only to face off with stray dogs over water. During late-night diving sessions, a researcher encounters a mysterious group of ocean-dwelling people with gills. In an overpopulated future, marrying an AI ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Dr. Bethune's Children

    by Yiwei Xue ...
    Translated by Darryl Sterk ...
    Xue Yiwei’s life has been marked by that of the legendary Montreal surgeon Norman Bethune, who died in China in the cause of Communism. Like other Chinese of his generation – the generation that has turned China into the world power it is today – Xue Yiwei was inspired by Dr. Bethune’s example during the Cultural Revolution. But unlike his peers, he went to the lengths of moving to Montreal, where ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Shenzheners

    by Yiwei Xue ...
    Translated by Darryl Sterk ...
    The first book in English by acclaimed Chinese-Canadian writer Xue Yiwei, Shenzheners is inspired by the young city of Shenzhen, a market town north of Hong Kong that became a Special Economic Zone in 1980 as an experiment in introducing capitalism to Communist China. A city in which everyone is a newcomer, Shenzhen has grown astronomically to become a major metropolitan centre. Hailed as a ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Scales of Injustice

    by Hô Lōa ...
    Translated by Darryl Sterk ...
    Lōa Hô (also Lai He, 1894-1943) was a pioneering writer from Taiwan often called the 'father of New Taiwanese Literature'. As a doctor during the colonial period in Taiwan, Loa witnessed the cruelty of Japanese rule and wrote stories which display both his sense of justice and social insight. His writing often utilized irony and satire to criticize the status quo, and his work provides a ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eyes of the Ocean

    by Syaman Rapongan ...
    Translated by Darryl Sterk ...
    Syaman Rapongan—one of the Indigenous Tao people of Orchid Island near Taiwan—calls himself an “ocean writer.” His works blend Tao folklore and accounts of maritime life with keen critique of the social, psychological, and ecological harms of colonialism. Eyes of the Ocean is his literary autobiography, both a powerful story of survival in a settler state and a masterful portrait of the Indigenous ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Home Sickness

    by Chih-Ying Lay ...
    Translated by Darryl Sterk ...
    Connecting is not easy, but proximity is unbearable. The characters in these ten stories are longing for escape and attempt to leave home, but inevitably and perhaps ironically find themselves homesick. Chih-Ying Lay, a Montreal-based expatriate from Taiwan familiar with both homesickness and home sickness, probes our desperate need for home, often matched with an equally desperate need to get ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Hunter School

    by Sakinu Ahronglong ...
    Translated by Darryl Sterk ...
    Hunter School is a work of fiction consisting of recollections, folklore, and autobiographical stories from the perspective of an aboriginal Taiwanese man aiming to reconnect with his lost tribal identity. A common theme running throughout this charming but important book is that of a young man learning about himself and his heritage – from the past, elders, ancestors, and nature itself. This ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wedding in Autumn and Other Stories

    by Chiung-Yu Shih ...
    Translated by Darryl Sterk ...
    Haunted by memories of the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s, nationalist soldiers from all over mainland China are doomed to live out their days in exile in Taitung County, along the southeastern shore of the island of Taiwan.The three novellas in this collection tell stories of Chinese men who were forced to leave their loved ones behind and the aboriginal Amis locals they marry or adopt to ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ghost Town

    by Kevin Chen ...
    Narrated by Nicky Endres ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2022FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARDKeith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man.The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Hunter School

    by Sakinu Ahronglong ...
    Narrated by Pun Bandhu ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 38 min

    Hunter School is a timely piece of fiction, drawing on the recollections, folklore, and autobiographical stories of an aboriginal Taiwanese man aiming to reconnect with his tribal Paiwan identity, lost in the name of development.It is impossible to be unaware of the effect of development, invariably at the hands of outsiders, upon the lands, inhabitants, and very nature of faraway climes. Hunter ... Read more

    $20.54 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook