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Notes of a Crocodile (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.81 — 11,230 ratings — published 1994
Green Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,727 ratings — published 2016
Taiwan Travelogue (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,596 ratings — published 2020
The Stolen Bicycle (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 98 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,244 ratings — published 2015
The Man with the Compound Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 94 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,533 ratings — published 2011
The Membranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,586 ratings — published 1995
Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.42 — 3,859 ratings — published 2020
Last Words from Montmartre (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,000 ratings — published 1996
Ghost Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,958 ratings — published 2019
Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.83 — 504 ratings — published 2005
The Astonishing Color of After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.04 — 34,174 ratings — published 2018
Taipei People (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,385 ratings — published 1971
Crystal Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.32 — 991 ratings — published 1983
Daughters of Shandong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.47 — 19,740 ratings — published 2024
Formosa Betrayed (United States Foreign Policy)
by (shelved 34 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.29 — 189 ratings — published 1965
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,287 ratings — published 2017
The Butcher's Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,158 ratings — published 1983
Stories of the Sahara (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,667 ratings — published 1976
A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.72 — 173 ratings — published 1980
Bestiary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.42 — 4,152 ratings — published 2020
Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.67 — 20,788 ratings — published 2020
Notes of a Desolate Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.68 — 239 ratings — published 1994
Orphan of Asia (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
by (shelved 26 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.71 — 272 ratings — published 1945
A Pail of Oysters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.10 — 115 ratings — published 1953
Ghost Month (Taipei Night Market #1)
by (shelved 24 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.29 — 976 ratings — published 2014
Stay True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.99 — 50,306 ratings — published 2022
Solo Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,549 ratings — published 2017
My Enemy's Cherry Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.43 — 381 ratings — published
The Third Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,641 ratings — published 2013
Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.05 — 213 ratings — published 2011
Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.01 — 92 ratings — published 2016
The Taste of Apples (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.94 — 72 ratings — published 2001
Taiwan: A Political History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.79 — 101 ratings — published 2002
Homeseeking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.20 — 28,122 ratings — published 2025
Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by (shelved 20 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.27 — 55 ratings — published 2004
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.83 — 706 ratings — published 2024
Rebel Island: The Incredible Story of Taiwan (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.09 — 285 ratings — published
Scales of Injustice. The Complete Fiction of Loā Hô. (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.22 — 23 ratings — published
Formosan Odyssey: Taiwan, Past and Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.79 — 114 ratings — published 2002
Taiwan: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.83 — 52 ratings — published 1997
Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.14 — 214 ratings — published 2025
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.16 — 474 ratings — published 2009
The Lost Garden: A Novel (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
by (shelved 17 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.25 — 64 ratings — published 1991
Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.12 — 201 ratings — published 2011
Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.73 — 74 ratings — published 2001
The Fourth Daughter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,713 ratings — published 2025
How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (Gutenberg-e)
by (shelved 15 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.97 — 37 ratings — published 2008
“I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.”
― Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
― Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
“In Taiwan, where bubble tea was invented, people have been drinking Chinese tea styles with milk since Dutch colonization in the seventeenth century. But milk tea-- specifically, Indian black teas where milkiness is as important as the tea-- arrived late, some time around the Second World War. As the story goes, a former bartender, Chang Fan Shu, thought to serve it cold, and shake it like you would a cocktail. When he did this, the fats and proteins in the milk allowed it to form a foam, and he made what people started to call bubble tea. Some shops started serving iced versions, shaken like a cocktail. And then in the eighties, in a Taiwanese tea shop-- and nobody can agree which one-- someone had the idea of adding chewy pearls of tapioca starch to the bubble tea, making bubble tea-squared. New variants quickly appeared. Earl Grey boba tea. Milkless jasmine green tea or osmanthus versions. A lot of the time the tea was lost completely, most notably in the crystalline pop fruit flavors such as lychee or mulberry, although also in milkshake-like blends like lilac taro.”
― All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
― All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
