Has anybody read any of these novels?
I like the look of ‘Taiwan Tales’.
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I couldn’t seem to find any of the Parties Political Manifestos in the list ?
I liked Pail of Oysters - set during the 1950s or so, if I recall.
I’ve also got Kindle editions of Green Island and Taiwan Tales, but haven’t read them yet. Note that Camphor Press is a great source of reading material - they post here reasonably often.
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I couldn’t open your hyperlink.
Their website seems to be misbehaving - on my computer (iMac using Safari), it takes about 20 seconds to open.
I’ve heard good things about Qiu Miaojin’s “Notes of a Crocodile.”
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Mine too.
Here’s a new one “Loveboat Taiwan”.
LOL finally someone tackled that topic, 
I read this book. One of the most egregious errors - the claim that in Taiwan, everyone uses WeChat to communicate.
It’s another Asian-American YA contemporary novel that’s ostensibly about romance but really all that regular growing up stuff + Asian parents. It’s a popular genre at the moment.
Easy to confuse the book with the documentary “Loveboat Taiwan”.
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The “love boat” topic (ahem) has also been tackled in this documentary film shown in Taiwan:
EDIT: paperclip beat me to it!
Guy
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Oh I missed both. Being a witness to this historic event I am glad it has been caught on film and word.
“Loveboat, Taipei” movie, based on the book, is apparently now in production in Taiwan.
And the movie is out under a different title. I suppose few people nowadays know the Love Boat reference.
I never read the book and found the movie trite and vapid. The only redeeming feature was it made Taipei real pretty. I recommend fast-forwarding the video and finishing it in 15 minutes.