Lastly, I would also like to thank Miura Yūko, the Japanese translator of Taiwan Travelogue. Her translation, published by chúõkõrõn-Shinsha in 2023, was of great help to me for fact-checking my Japanese transliterations of names and places. Surely Aovama and Chi-chan would be tickled by this: a Taiwanese translator, while bringing the book to the ultimate colonial language of English, has struggled to determine how the Japanese colonial government would have pronounced Taiwanese terms and therefore consulted the Japanese translation of a Taiwanese novel that claims to be a Taiwanese translation of a Japanese novel. Oh dear oh dear oh dear!

I just finished Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi, and it's wonderful. I love this final note by Lin King who translated it into English.

"the Japanese translation of a Taiwanese novel that claims to be a Taiwanese translation of a Japanese novel" 😂

#TaiwanTravelogue #YangShuangZi #LinKing

#BookerInternational #LongList #Readers:
Is all of #TaiwanTravelogue satire using “the propaganda project” the writer initially rejected? The relationship demonstrating the fraternal invitation of Japanese colonial intervention? Who else has read this? I want to discuss 💬

For those who have read #TaiwanTravelogue curious if I'm overthinking or if the perpetual quest for food is more symbolic? Is it really just a woman snacking her way through Taiwan? Or is it a deeper exploration of colonial consumption given the period/setting #BookerInternational #LongList #Booksky

楊双子伴侶罷免宣講遭攻擊 施暴婦人被依多項罪嫌送辦（翻攝畫面） - 自由電子報影音頻道 知名台灣作家楊双子的伴侶賴庭荷，昨日在新北中和街頭參與罷免宣講活動時，遭一名不滿言論的73歲蘇姓婦人當街攻擊，臉部與手部受傷，隨後警方依現行犯當場逮捕施暴者，並依傷害、強制、恐嚇、公然侮辱及違反選罷法等罪嫌移送地檢署偵辦。事後賴庭荷已透過社群平台報平安，表示已完成筆錄並赴醫院驗傷。

A thread on #recall activists being harassed in #Taiwan 🧵

The partner of author Yang Shuang-zi, whose novel #TaiwanTravelogue won the 2025 U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature, was attacked last week for holding a recall sign on the side of a road.

video.ltn.com.tw/article/cxA3...

This passage speaks to me #TaiwanTravelogue

#TaiwanTravelogue begins to unfold a story where the relationship between a Japanese author and her Taiwanese translator and guide, becomes a commentary on imperialism, power dynamics, and the ways even the best of intentions can betray an unconscious bias. A lot of food will be eaten along the way.

臺灣漫遊錄 Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi and translated by Lin King. Both original and English translation books, on red trunk.

Teaching in my translation graduate seminar today, both #臺灣漫遊錄 #TaiwanTravelogue by Yang Shuangzi, and in its marvelous English translation by Lin King.
The novel is a 'found text' of a colonial-era Japanese novel based on the author's travel notes, then multiply 'translated.' The meta is meta-ing!

#TaiwanTravelogue: an excerpt of the winner of the 2024 US National #Book Award for #Translated Literature is available on Google Books!

books.google.com.tw/books?id=pQg...

"Shuang-zi" is a pen name, lit. "twins" in Japanese. Before her twin sister and co-author Ruohui died at age 26 from breast cancer, Ruoci promised her that she would finish the novel they started together. #TaiwanTravelogue is therefore their joint work- which the name "Yang Shuang-zi" commemorates.

screenshot of Yang Shuang-zi and Lin King, Winner, 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature for 'Taiwan Travelogue'

Lovely news! #TaiwanTravelogue, by Yang Shuang-zi (author) and Lin Kin (translator), have won the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature! A first for Taiwan.

La cubierta del libro muestra en primer plano una rama florida y tras ella, a lejos, dos mujeres sentadas frente a una mesita redonda con sándwiches. Detrás de ellas hay una ventana gigante a través de la cual se observa un paisaje montañoso con cascadas y un tren que acaba de salir de un túnel.

Esta novela de #楊双子 Yang Shuang-zi está en boca de todos porque su traducción al inglés, a cargo de #金翎 Lin King, es la primera obra taiwanesa que opta al National Book Award de Estados Unidos en la categoría de literatura traducida. El 1 de octubre sabremos si es finalista.
#TaiwanTravelogue
#臺灣漫遊錄