Seminars & Short Courses
Taiwan’s Turbulent Times: Reading “The Boy from Clearwater”
Join us for a deep reading of the Freeman Book 2023 Award Winner for Young Adult Graphic Novels: The Boy from Clearwater (Book 1) by Yu Pei-Yun, illustrated by Zhou Jian-Xin and translated by Lin King. The beautifully illustrated book takes us through Japanese occupied Taiwan, the Pacific War, and Taiwan under the rule of the Chinese nationalist party (1930s to 1950s). A coming-of-age story that sees our main character, victim of Taiwan’s White Terror, sentenced to ten years on the infamous Green Island for having participated in the wrong book club.