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Taipei People by Hsien-yung Pai (Paperback, 2000)

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The book has since won him a large following in Taiwan and Hong Kong and Chinese communities the world over. In 1982, Indiana University Press published the English translation of the book under the title Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream: Tales of Taipei Characters, which was translated by the author and Patia Yasin, and edited by George Kao.

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Widely acclaimed as a classic of contemporary fiction in Chinese, Taipei People has been frequently compared to James Joyce's Dubliners. Patrick Hanan praises the volume as the highest achievement in the contemporary Chinese story. Henry Miller considers Pai Hsien-yung a master of portraiture. Stories from this collection have already been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.