台灣文學英譯叢刊(No. 53)：台灣推理小說專輯

【About the Editors】

Kuo-ch'ing Tu, born in Taichung, Taiwan. His research interests include Chinese literature, Chinese poetics and literary theories, comparative literature East and West, and world literatures of Chinese (Shi-Hua wenxue). He is the author of numerous books of poetry in Chinese, as well as translator of English, Japanese, and French works into Chinese.

Terence Russell is Senior Scholar in the Asian Studies Center at the University of Manitoba. He has an interest in contemporary literature in Chinese, especially the literature of Taiwan's Indigenous people. Dr. Russell has been a regular contributor to Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series, and was the guest editor of Issue 24 on Taiwan Indigenous myths and oral literature.


Guest Editor

Kuo-wei Chen is Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Director of the International PhD Program in Taiwan and Transcultural Studies, and a Distinguished Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies at National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan. His research interests include modern Taiwan literature, popular literature and culture, visual studies, and monster studies. He served as the President of the Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan, from 2021 to 2023, and as the President of the Taiwan Humanities Society from 2018 to 2020. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University. Dr. Chen was invited by the National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan to lead projects such as “Technology and Literature in the Posthuman Age” and “Posthumanity and Science Fiction.”His recent publications include Crossing Borders and Translating Paths: The Generation of Body Translation and Transnationalism in Contemporary Taiwanese Mystery Novels (2013) and The Sceneries of Genre: Popular Literature in Postwar Taiwan (2013). He is the coordinator and co-editor of several international book projects, including Taiwanese Literature: From Colonial Journeys to Cultural Horizons (Daemanmunhag: sigmin-ui gihaengbuteo munhwaui jipyeongkkaji, 2017) (in Korean) and The Intersecting History of Postwar Japanese and Taiwanese Subcultures (Kōsa suru hidai sengo sabukaruchã-shi 2022) (in Japanese).