Taipei

Bai Xianyong's "Taipei People" is a work of great complexity. This book is composed of 14 short stories, each of which has different writing skills and different lengths, each of which can exist independently, so it can be called a first-class short story. But when these fourteen articles are gathered together and connected into one body, the effect increases suddenly: not only does the scope of the novel become wider, allowing us to see the "phases of all living beings" in society, but more importantly, because one of the themes and meanings is repeated, and they complement each other. , so that we can further understand the meaning of the work, and let us have a glimpse of the author's outlook on life and the world hidden in the work. ——Ouyangzi "Bai Xianyong's Fiction World"

"A writer has written many books in his life, but in fact he only repeats two or three sentences of himself. If he can say these two or three sentences well from various angles and different techniques, then his writing is not in vain.

"Taipei People" is more important to me. I feel that if I don’t write quickly, those characters, those stories, and those Chinese people’s ways of life that have been slowly disappearing will soon become the past, gone forever. " - Bai Xianyong