Taiwan Travelogue :
Taiwan Travelogue Taiwan Travelogue is a tale of two young women in their twenties travelling across Japanese-occupied Taiwan in the late 1930s—savouring local cuisines, discovering forgotten stories, and travelling through stunning landscapes along colonial railway routes. But beneath this seemingly gentle travelogue of food, friendship and discovery, Yáng adds another layer through an ingenious metafictional device. The book presents itself as the rediscovery of a lost Japanese travelogue, supposedly written in the 1930s, subsequently translated into Mandarin and finally into English. Set in the late 1930s, the novel follows Aoyama Chizuko , a young Japanese writer who travels to Taiwan, then a Japanese colony, on a lecture tour. She is assigned Ō Chizuru , a young Taiwanese teacher, as her interpreter and travelling companion. Their journey unfolds through the island's cuisines and colonial railway network, moving across its cities, mountains and coastal landscapes and throu...