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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Truth demands witnesses. Are you ready to testify?Taiwan Case Files - Volume II continues Chang Li Yen's haunting fusion of investigative journalism and literary suspense, unearthing the forgotten crimes and suppressed histories buried in Taiwan's archives. Each story transforms a real unresolved case into a psychological excavation of truth, memory, and conscience-where every discovery opens a darker void beneath.At the heart of this volume stands "Bloodstained Taiyuan: Gunshots in a Silent File," a reconstruction of the 1970 Taiyuan Incident. When journalist-protagonist Chang Chieh-an uncovers his late mentor's secret notebook, he follows a trail through military tribunals, vanished witnesses, and a single missing name on a guard roster that unravels half a century of silence. What begins as an academic inquiry becomes a descent into the ethics of truth itself-an elegy for the era when procedure died and justice died with it.In "The Tainan Blood Case: A Faded Notebook," the narrator inherits his father's unfinished investigation into a 1971 family murder. The deeper he digs, the more he discovers how organized crime, political fear, and bureaucratic indifference erased the truth. Father and son-two generations of reporters-mirror each other across time, both trapped between evidence and erasure. Their parallel notebooks become confessions of futility and devotion: recording as the last act of resistance.Further cases-such as "The Unfinished Puzzle: The Riverside Enigma" and others-extend this anatomy of truth. Dockyard killings, missing files, erased testimonies, and the faint ghosts of Taiwan's martial-law past intertwine with the present-day journalist's relentless pursuit. Each chapter stands alone as a case study in moral corrosion, yet together they form a mosaic of a nation still wrestling with its unspoken wounds.Chang Li Yen writes with the precision of a reporter and the lyricism of a poet. His prose exposes the machinery of power-the courtroom that silences, the record that omits, the news that forgets-while restoring humanity to those consumed by it. Through layered narratives, fictionalized witnesses, and archival fragments, he turns every "unsolved case" into a mirror reflecting the reader's own complicity in forgetting.More than a collection of mysteries, Taiwan Case Files II is an inquiry into the relationship between history and justice, memory and oblivion. It asks: - How much truth can a society endure?- When evidence rots and time distorts, what remains of justice?- And can writing itself become a form of testimony?For readers of historical noir, investigative fiction, and true-crime literature-fans of Memories of Murder, The White Book, or The Tattooer-this volume offers both intellectual rigor and emotional devastation. Each page breathes with the humidity of coastal Taiwan, the rust of forgotten prisons, and the quiet desperation of those who once dared to ask, "Who will care?"About the AuthorChang Li Yen is an investigative journalist turned novelist whose background in Communication Studies informs his distinctive craft-melding factual precision with literary depth. His works dissect Taiwan's modern history through the lens of criminal cases, treating each as a forensic specimen of collective conscience. Critics hail him as "the scalpel that cuts through silence."Key Themes: -Transitional Justice and Martial Law Taiwan-Ethics of Journalism and Memory-Crime, Guilt, and Collective Silence-Father-Son Legacy and Moral Inheritance-The Fragility of Procedure and TruthRichly atmospheric, intellectually fearless, and emotionally piercing, Taiwan Case Files - Volume II transf Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Product Description Truth demands witnesses. Are you ready to testify? In Taiwan Case Files - Volume VII, investigative journalist-turned-novelist Chang Li Yen returns with eleven interwoven stories that peel back the polite skin of modern Taiwan to expose what festers beneath. Each tale is inspired by true events and shaped with surgical precision, where every crime becomes an autopsy of conscience, every death a mirror held to society's decay. Through Chang's unflinching prose, readers confront the places where justice falters, empathy erodes, and the meaning of "truth" is ground between power and guilt. The volume opens with "Nether Pact: The Ghost-Month Classroom," a chilling parable of sexual abuse and institutional betrayal. When a professor's victim dies by suicide and her spirit returns for vengeance, the haunting becomes both supernatural and moral-an indictment of a system that calls predators "clean." The retribution that follows is as meticulous as it is merciless, forcing the living to relive every torment the dead endured. From there, the book descends through Taiwan's layered darkness: "The Knife That Gnaws at the Old" recounts a grandson's drunken rage and the quiet horror of generational neglect in a fishing village where love turns parasitic. "Core-Chip: City Under Siege" explodes into techno-thriller territory, fusing semiconductor espionage, ritualistic killings, and the corrosion of national ambition. Later stories such as "Darknet Lost," "Cuihe Blood Curse," and "Mirror Prison" explore digital sin, occult vengeance, and psychological confinement, forming a lattice of guilt that binds the living and the dead alike.Each case may stand alone, yet together they create a single x-ray of a society anesthetized by progress and haunted by what it refuses to see. Chang's narrative style blends the clinical discipline of reportage with the lyricism of noir. His language gleams like a scalpel: precise, rhythmic, and laced with empathy that cuts deeper than pity. He writes not to glorify evil but to expose the ordinariness of cruelty-the moment a teacher's smile hides predation, a bureaucrat's stamp erases a life, or a grandson's need curdles into murder. Beneath each crime lies a question that resists closure: Who is guilty when everyone looks away? The Book of Shadows, the author's preface, frames the entire series as a "dialogue with time"-a resistance to forgetting. It declares that crime fiction, when grounded in real pain, becomes the final court of memory. For Chang Li Yen, suspense is not a riddle to be solved but a mirror forcing readers to meet their own reflection. "What I write," he confesses, "is not who killed whom, but how we kill ourselves." Across more than four hundred pages, Volume VII continues the Taiwan Case Files of Suspicion saga's evolution from investigative realism to metaphysical indictment. The familiar themes of corrupted institutions, buried trauma, and moral entropy are refined here into a literary anatomy of an island's collective psyche. Ghost stories coexist with courtroom transcripts; folklore bleeds into forensic detail. Each page radiates a slow, terrible beauty-the poetry of evidence and decay. At its core, this book asks a simple, devastating question: when justice fails, does the truth still have a voice? Chang answers by giving that voice to the silenced-the victims, the forgotten, the unnamed-so that their confessions, even whispered through fiction, may disturb our sleep. Readers of Keigo Higashino, Shusaku Endo, or Han Kang will find in Chang Li Yen a kindred craftsman who turns guilt into language and testimony into art. Taiwan Case Files - Volume VII is not merely a crime anthology; it is a moral darkroom where every reader becomes a witness, and every shadow deve Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Book Description In a world that fears the dark, Chang Li Yen writes from within it.Forbidden and Silent: Tales of the Wraith is a collection of thirty haunting short stories that explore the fragile boundary between reason and the unknown, light and shadow, the living and what lingers after. Blending literary craftsmanship with supernatural dread, the book transforms horror into a meditation on memory, silence, and the spaces where humanity meets the inexplicable. Each story is a whisper from the border-subtle, unsettling, and impossible to forget.A mute fisherman hauls from the river a black idol carved with a dead child's smile.An old movie theater reveals its missing thirteenth row, filled with faceless spectators watching a film that never existed.A night watchman discovers abandoned looms weaving again, powered by something more ancient than electricity.And deep in the fog-wrapped mountains, a vanished village breathes through a tea garden that feeds on the souls of its former residents. Through these fragments, Chang builds a secret map of modern Taiwan-a geography of forgotten corners and half-remembered myths. The stories traverse ghostly river towns, abandoned factories, empty subway tunnels, and nameless rural shrines. Each location feels both local and universal, a mirror reflecting humanity's quiet decay beneath progress. His ghosts are not creatures of revenge, but echoes of emotion-love, guilt, obsession, and grief that refuse to fade. Chang's prose is elegant, cinematic, and deeply atmospheric. He writes with a journalist's precision and a poet's restraint, letting dread grow organically from silence. His horror is not loud-it breathes. The tension lies in what remains unsaid: the hum of an unseen machine, the faint vibration behind a wall, the chill of a room that remembers too much. Readers are not simply frightened; they are immersed in a slow, lingering awareness that something beneath the surface is alive and watching. At its core, this book is not about monsters-it is about memory.The unburied past, the unspoken promise, the guilt we inherit and the pain we pretend not to see-all manifest as hauntings. Chang asks: What happens to places and people erased by time? Do their stories truly vanish, or do they persist, reshaping themselves into whispers that call to us in moments of silence? Forbidden and Silent stands at the intersection of ghost story and modern myth, where folklore meets existential dread. It draws from Taiwan's landscape and oral traditions while speaking to the universal human condition-the fear of being forgotten. Each story functions like an archaeological site of emotion, unearthing layers of sorrow, belief, and desire that civilization has tried to bury. Readers will recognize echoes of Shirley Jackson, Haruki Murakami, Han Kang, and Brian Evenson in Chang's measured rhythm and emotional depth. Yet his voice is distinctly his own-quietly compassionate, unsparing, and precise. Beneath every moment of horror lies empathy; beneath every apparition, a human story struggling to be heard. His ghosts are weary rather than wrathful, and their silence carries the weight of centuries. With thirty tales of atmospheric horror and psychological depth, this collection redefines what it means to be haunted. It is not merely about what frightens us, but about what refuses to leave-the traces of lives, loves, and regrets suspended in the air we breathe. In the words of the author: "Fear is the most honest emotion. Writing is how I let honesty speak." Forbidden and Silent: Tales of the Wraith invites readers to listen-to the echoes in the dark, to the breath between words, to the voice of the forgotten. Step carefully, for reading itself is a crossing.Some borders, once passed, remem Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Text is chiefly in Chinese, with some English at back. The only library mark is a Withdrawn stamp on the free front endpaper; otherwise this volume is bright and fresh. 307 p., illustrated (some color). Contents: model of Buddhist art from northern Zhou Chang'an area -- Shanghaolao Tomb no. 1 in Huguan, Shanxi -- replications of Nan'endo Fukukenjaku Kannon at Kofukuji -- chainmail patterns on kraak porcelain and related issues (these articles are all in Chinese). Size: 10 1/4 x 7 7/16 inches. [O3:4].…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Truth demands witnesses. Are you ready to testify?Taiwan Case Files - Volume II continues Chang Li Yen's haunting fusion of investigative journalism and literary suspense, unearthing the forgotten crimes and suppressed histories buried in Taiwan's archives. Each story transforms a real unresolved case into a psychological excavation of truth, memory, and conscience-where every discovery opens a darker void beneath.At the heart of this volume stands "Bloodstained Taiyuan: Gunshots in a Silent File," a reconstruction of the 1970 Taiyuan Incident. When journalist-protagonist Chang Chieh-an uncovers his late mentor's secret notebook, he follows a trail through military tribunals, vanished witnesses, and a single missing name on a guard roster that unravels half a century of silence. What begins as an academic inquiry becomes a descent into the ethics of truth itself-an elegy for the era when procedure died and justice died with it.In "The Tainan Blood Case: A Faded Notebook," the narrator inherits his father's unfinished investigation into a 1971 family murder. The deeper he digs, the more he discovers how organized crime, political fear, and bureaucratic indifference erased the truth. Father and son-two generations of reporters-mirror each other across time, both trapped between evidence and erasure. Their parallel notebooks become confessions of futility and devotion: recording as the last act of resistance.Further cases-such as "The Unfinished Puzzle: The Riverside Enigma" and others-extend this anatomy of truth. Dockyard killings, missing files, erased testimonies, and the faint ghosts of Taiwan's martial-law past intertwine with the present-day journalist's relentless pursuit. Each chapter stands alone as a case study in moral corrosion, yet together they form a mosaic of a nation still wrestling with its unspoken wounds.Chang Li Yen writes with the precision of a reporter and the lyricism of a poet. His prose exposes the machinery of power-the courtroom that silences, the record that omits, the news that forgets-while restoring humanity to those consumed by it. Through layered narratives, fictionalized witnesses, and archival fragments, he turns every "unsolved case" into a mirror reflecting the reader's own complicity in forgetting.More than a collection of mysteries, Taiwan Case Files II is an inquiry into the relationship between history and justice, memory and oblivion. It asks: - How much truth can a society endure?- When evidence rots and time distorts, what remains of justice?- And can writing itself become a form of testimony?For readers of historical noir, investigative fiction, and true-crime literature-fans of Memories of Murder, The White Book, or The Tattooer-this volume offers both intellectual rigor and emotional devastation. Each page breathes with the humidity of coastal Taiwan, the rust of forgotten prisons, and the quiet desperation of those who once dared to ask, "Who will care?"About the AuthorChang Li Yen is an investigative journalist turned novelist whose background in Communication Studies informs his distinctive craft-melding factual precision with literary depth. His works dissect Taiwan's modern history through the lens of criminal cases, treating each as a forensic specimen of collective conscience. Critics hail him as "the scalpel that cuts through silence."Key Themes: -Transitional Justice and Martial Law Taiwan-Ethics of Journalism and Memory-Crime, Guilt, and Collective Silence-Father-Son Legacy and Moral Inheritance-The Fragility of Procedure and TruthRichly atmospheric, intellectually fearless, and emotionally piercing, Taiwan Case Files - Volume Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Product Description Truth demands witnesses. Are you ready to testify? In Taiwan Case Files - Volume VII, investigative journalist-turned-novelist Chang Li Yen returns with eleven interwoven stories that peel back the polite skin of modern Taiwan to expose what festers beneath. Each tale is inspired by true events and shaped with surgical precision, where every crime becomes an autopsy of conscience, every death a mirror held to society's decay. Through Chang's unflinching prose, readers confront the places where justice falters, empathy erodes, and the meaning of "truth" is ground between power and guilt. The volume opens with "Nether Pact: The Ghost-Month Classroom," a chilling parable of sexual abuse and institutional betrayal. When a professor's victim dies by suicide and her spirit returns for vengeance, the haunting becomes both supernatural and moral-an indictment of a system that calls predators "clean." The retribution that follows is as meticulous as it is merciless, forcing the living to relive every torment the dead endured. From there, the book descends through Taiwan's layered darkness: "The Knife That Gnaws at the Old" recounts a grandson's drunken rage and the quiet horror of generational neglect in a fishing village where love turns parasitic. "Core-Chip: City Under Siege" explodes into techno-thriller territory, fusing semiconductor espionage, ritualistic killings, and the corrosion of national ambition. Later stories such as "Darknet Lost," "Cuihe Blood Curse," and "Mirror Prison" explore digital sin, occult vengeance, and psychological confinement, forming a lattice of guilt that binds the living and the dead alike.Each case may stand alone, yet together they create a single x-ray of a society anesthetized by progress and haunted by what it refuses to see. Chang's narrative style blends the clinical discipline of reportage with the lyricism of noir. His language gleams like a scalpel: precise, rhythmic, and laced with empathy that cuts deeper than pity. He writes not to glorify evil but to expose the ordinariness of cruelty-the moment a teacher's smile hides predation, a bureaucrat's stamp erases a life, or a grandson's need curdles into murder. Beneath each crime lies a question that resists closure: Who is guilty when everyone looks away? The Book of Shadows, the author's preface, frames the entire series as a "dialogue with time"-a resistance to forgetting. It declares that crime fiction, when grounded in real pain, becomes the final court of memory. For Chang Li Yen, suspense is not a riddle to be solved but a mirror forcing readers to meet their own reflection. "What I write," he confesses, "is not who killed whom, but how we kill ourselves." Across more than four hundred pages, Volume VII continues the Taiwan Case Files of Suspicion saga's evolution from investigative realism to metaphysical indictment. The familiar themes of corrupted institutions, buried trauma, and moral entropy are refined here into a literary anatomy of an island's collective psyche. Ghost stories coexist with courtroom transcripts; folklore bleeds into forensic detail. Each page radiates a slow, terrible beauty-the poetry of evidence and decay. At its core, this book asks a simple, devastating question: when justice fails, does the truth still have a voice? Chang answers by giving that voice to the silenced-the victims, the forgotten, the unnamed-so that their confessions, even whispered through fiction, may disturb our sleep. Readers of Keigo Higashino, Shusaku Endo, or Han Kang will find in Chang Li Yen a kindred craftsman who turns guilt into language and testimony into art. Taiwan Case Files - Volume VII is not merely a crime anthology; it is a moral darkroom where every reader becomes a witness, and ever Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Book Description In a world that fears the dark, Chang Li Yen writes from within it.Forbidden and Silent: Tales of the Wraith is a collection of thirty haunting short stories that explore the fragile boundary between reason and the unknown, light and shadow, the living and what lingers after. Blending literary craftsmanship with supernatural dread, the book transforms horror into a meditation on memory, silence, and the spaces where humanity meets the inexplicable. Each story is a whisper from the border-subtle, unsettling, and impossible to forget.A mute fisherman hauls from the river a black idol carved with a dead child's smile.An old movie theater reveals its missing thirteenth row, filled with faceless spectators watching a film that never existed.A night watchman discovers abandoned looms weaving again, powered by something more ancient than electricity.And deep in the fog-wrapped mountains, a vanished village breathes through a tea garden that feeds on the souls of its former residents. Through these fragments, Chang builds a secret map of modern Taiwan-a geography of forgotten corners and half-remembered myths. The stories traverse ghostly river towns, abandoned factories, empty subway tunnels, and nameless rural shrines. Each location feels both local and universal, a mirror reflecting humanity's quiet decay beneath progress. His ghosts are not creatures of revenge, but echoes of emotion-love, guilt, obsession, and grief that refuse to fade. Chang's prose is elegant, cinematic, and deeply atmospheric. He writes with a journalist's precision and a poet's restraint, letting dread grow organically from silence. His horror is not loud-it breathes. The tension lies in what remains unsaid: the hum of an unseen machine, the faint vibration behind a wall, the chill of a room that remembers too much. Readers are not simply frightened; they are immersed in a slow, lingering awareness that something beneath the surface is alive and watching. At its core, this book is not about monsters-it is about memory.The unburied past, the unspoken promise, the guilt we inherit and the pain we pretend not to see-all manifest as hauntings. Chang asks: What happens to places and people erased by time? Do their stories truly vanish, or do they persist, reshaping themselves into whispers that call to us in moments of silence? Forbidden and Silent stands at the intersection of ghost story and modern myth, where folklore meets existential dread. It draws from Taiwan's landscape and oral traditions while speaking to the universal human condition-the fear of being forgotten. Each story functions like an archaeological site of emotion, unearthing layers of sorrow, belief, and desire that civilization has tried to bury. Readers will recognize echoes of Shirley Jackson, Haruki Murakami, Han Kang, and Brian Evenson in Chang's measured rhythm and emotional depth. Yet his voice is distinctly his own-quietly compassionate, unsparing, and precise. Beneath every moment of horror lies empathy; beneath every apparition, a human story struggling to be heard. His ghosts are weary rather than wrathful, and their silence carries the weight of centuries. With thirty tales of atmospheric horror and psychological depth, this collection redefines what it means to be haunted. It is not merely about what frightens us, but about what refuses to leave-the traces of lives, loves, and regrets suspended in the air we breathe. In the words of the author: "Fear is the most honest emotion. Writing is how I let honesty speak." Forbidden and Silent: Tales of the Wraith invites readers to listen-to the echoes in the dark, to the breath between words, to the voice of the forgotten. Step carefully, for reading itself is a crossing.Some borders, once Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Taiwan Case Files of Suspicion - Volume IBy Chang Li YenIn Taiwan Case Files of Suspicion, award-winning journalist-turned-novelist Chang Li Yen transforms real unsolved crimes into haunting literary investigations. Each story begins in the cold corridors of police archives and ends in the deeper abyss of human conscience. Drawing from decades of field reporting, Chang merges the rigor of journalism with the lyric intensity of noir fiction to expose how power, greed, and silence twist truth into legend.The opening novella, "Undercurrent: When the Cuiluan Blood Case Remains Unsolved," follows reporter Zhang Jie-an, who receives a sealed 1956 police file describing a mountain family's annihilation. The supposed tribal revenge hides a darker conspiracy-resource exploitation, planted evidence, and half a century of state corruption. As Zhang digs through decayed files and living witnesses, he unearths the buried connection between the nation's development myth and its forgotten Indigenous wounds. Truth becomes both weapon and curse.Subsequent cases-"Blood Debt on the Isolated Island," "The Hemp Rope Ghost of Keelung Harbor," and others-trace Taiwan's modern history through its stains of crime. Each chapter blends real judicial records, oral histories, and psychological realism into stories that question not only who killed, but what society allowed it to happen. The crimes are mirrors of their eras: martial-law secrecy, industrial greed, ethnic tension, and the moral cost of survival.Behind every corpse lies an invisible witness; behind every "solved" case, a deeper injustice. Through elegant prose and forensic precision, Chang Li Yen resurrects those silenced voices. His narrator, reporter Zhang Jie-an, embodies the weary integrity of truth-seekers who bleed for facts. The knife with the Ancestor's Eye-an Indigenous heirloom stolen and planted as evidence-becomes the book's enduring symbol: proof that even a single object can carry generations of guilt and redemption.Taiwan Case Files of Suspicion is not simply crime fiction-it is a moral autopsy of a nation. It dissects how memory is censored, how history is rewritten, and how individuals shoulder the unbearable weight of truth. Written in cinematic language and steeped in Taiwan's political and cultural texture, the book evokes echoes of Memories of Murder and The Silence of the Lambs while remaining unmistakably local and lyrical.For readers of literary thrillers, investigative dramas, and historical mysteries, this collection delivers both suspense and conscience. Each page confronts the reader with the question Chang poses in his preface: "When truth itself becomes dangerous, will you still dare to uncover it?"Haunting, poetic, and relentless, Taiwan Case Files of Suspicion - Volume I invites you into the shadowed archives of Taiwan's collective past-where every whisper of evidence demands not just curiosity, but courage. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Taiwan Case Files - Volume IV by Chang Li Yen continues the acclaimed investigative-literary series that merges true crime, historical reflection, and psychological depth. Set against Taiwan's turbulent sociopolitical landscape from the 1990s to the early 2000s, this volume delves into the uneasy marriage of truth and silence-the gap between what is known and what can be spoken. Through interwoven cases drawn from real events, Chang crafts a mosaic of obsession, guilt, and moral corrosion. Each chapter functions as both mystery and autopsy: of bodies, of memories, and of a nation's conscience. The protagonists-reporters, detectives, and survivors-are not heroes but witnesses trapped in the labyrinth of history, where the pursuit of truth becomes an act of self-destruction. In "The Rust on the Steering Wheel," a journalist revisits the unsolved murder that once defined his career. Two decades later, a dying detective's final words unearth a microscopic trace of "rust"-a hidden clue that may prove to be oxidized blood, forcing the reporter to confront what justice truly means. "The Truth That Cannot Be Printed" examines the unbearable weight of revelation: when a lost cassette tape resurfaces, it exposes the massacre that toppled a generation's belief in authority. The truth, once heard, threatens to collapse an entire system built on stability and fear. "File No. 1996: The Nameless Woman in the Alley Behind the Historical Archives" links a vanished migrant worker, a dismembered body, and a surgeon's distinctive "signature" cut, revealing how class, power, and memory intersect beneath the sterile surface of modernization. Chang Li Yen writes with the precision of a journalist and the fatal tenderness of a novelist. His prose dissects society's dark anatomy-how laws are written in blood, how collective amnesia becomes protection, and how even good intentions rot under bureaucracy. Each story is steeped in moral tension: the desire to uncover the past versus the human instinct to survive its consequences. This is not sensational crime fiction. It is reportage transmuted into literature, where facts become metaphors and every wound testifies. Taiwan Case Files - Volume IV exposes the buried truths of a country still haunted by its unresolved ghosts. It invites readers to become witnesses, asking: When justice is delayed, and truth is silenced, who will remember the names erased from the files? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Taiwan Case Files - Volume IIIby Chang Li Yen In the humid summer of 1976 Taiwan, a patrol car rattles down a rural road toward an abandoned brick kiln. Inside a plaster-sealed wooden crate lies a woman's body-suffocated, entombed in cement, and left to rot in silence. For veteran inspector Chen Guochang, the discovery becomes the opening line of an investigation that will drag him through factory dormitories, corrupt warehouses, and the spiritual underbelly of a nation where the past never truly dies. The victim, Lin Xiuyue, is a migrant seamstress at Yongchang Textile-one of thousands of women who left home to sew the island's economic miracle. Her disappearance, dismissed by management, unravels a web of predation, poverty, and shame. As Chen follows the faint trail-an engraved fastener, footprints warped by mud, whispers of a missing ring-each clue pulls him deeper into a labyrinth of violence and superstition. When witnesses begin to collapse under visions of the dead and a suspect dies in terror, the boundary between forensic evidence and haunting dissolves. Chang Li Yen fuses investigative precision with literary dread, transforming real-world unsolved cases into a gothic anatomy of modern Taiwan. Drawing on his years as a crime reporter, he writes with the scalpel of journalism and the pulse of noir fiction, dissecting how guilt, power, and historical silence metastasize inside ordinary lives. Every chapter alternates between the rational and the uncanny: the coroner's report beside the ghost's testimony, the police archive beside the folklore that refuses erasure. Volume III expands the acclaimed Taiwan Case Files of Suspicion series beyond procedural mystery into moral autopsy. It explores the forgotten corners of Taiwan's industrial age-dormitories stacked with exhausted women, factories humming like mechanical hives, the ghosts born from unchecked ambition. Through Chen Guochang's weary eyes, readers witness a society negotiating between progress and conscience, faith and decay. The novel's meticulously researched realism anchors its supernatural terror, asking whether the true horror lies in the crime-or in the collective need to bury it. Written in stark, cinematic prose, Taiwan Case Files III reads like a reel of faded news footage revived in blood and moonlight. It is a requiem for the voiceless, a meditation on justice after truth has rotted away, and a confrontation with the question haunting every page of Chang Li Yen's work: When evidence ends, who will speak for the dead? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Product Description In Taiwan Case Files - Volume V, acclaimed journalist-turned-novelist Chang Li Yen continues his haunting excavation of Taiwan's unspoken history-where every unresolved case is a mirror reflecting the nation's buried conscience. Blending investigative precision with psychological depth, Chang transforms true events into literary autopsies of truth, memory, and human darkness. Across twelve interlinked stories, the book dissects the fragile boundary between witness and participant, fact and fiction. From the grotesque ritual of "Brined Light," where pickling becomes a sacrament of control and horror, to "The Gunshot Jigsaw of My Late Father," where a reporter inherits his father's unfinished pursuit of a criminal empire, and "Yutong's Rainy Season Archives," tracing the echoes of a kidnapping that shattered Taiwan's trust-each narrative unfolds as both thriller and confession. Through meticulous reportage, forensic imagery, and elegiac prose, Chang rebuilds the case files that institutions abandoned and society preferred to forget. What unites these tales is not sensational crime, but moral anatomy. Every story probes the tension between exposure and silence, between journalism's sunlight and fiction's cold storage. The investigators and reporters who populate these pages are haunted not by monsters, but by the hunger to understand evil-and the price of naming it. Whether confronting ritual killings rooted in folk superstition, political corruption that distorts justice, or the inherited trauma of generations raised under surveillance, Chang writes with the scalpel of a reporter and the conscience of a poet. His Taiwan is a living morgue of memory, where the wounds of history continue to breathe beneath the surface. Drawing from decades in the newsroom, Chang Li Yen converts the tools of journalism into instruments of art. His prose is lucid yet devastating, rich with sensory detail-the smell of motor oil, the chill of rain on crime-scene tape, the low hum of truth beneath official silence. Each case becomes a meditation on how violence reshapes identity, how truth corrodes those who chase it, and how remembrance itself can wound. In this volume, the "unsolved" is no longer merely criminal-it is existential: Why do we need to remember? Whose pain are we preserving? What happens when revelation becomes another form of desecration? Taiwan Case Files V stands as both novel cycle and social document, extending the author's ongoing project to fuse reportage and literature into a single form of testimony. Readers of literary crime, psychological thrillers, and historical fiction will find themselves pulled into a Taiwan both familiar and foreign-a landscape where the living investigate the dead, and the dead, in turn, judge the living. For fans of writers like Truman Capote, Roberto Bolano, or Keigo Higashino, Chang Li Yen offers a distinctly Taiwanese voice-measured, unflinching, and luminously humane. Truth demands witnesses, he reminds us. Opening this book, you become one of them. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Taiwan Case Files - Volume VIIIBy Chang Li YenTaipei never truly sleeps. Beneath its neon heartbeat lies a city of secrets-streets slick with rain, faces half-lit by truth and deceit. In Taiwan Case Files - Volume VIII, investigative journalist-turned-novelist Chang Li Yen returns with his most haunting volume yet, blending crime fiction, reportage, and moral philosophy into a single pulse of narrative electricity.A trilogy titled "Crimson Neon" anchors this collection, following a profiler who descends into the underworld of the Venus Club, where ritual killings and human trafficking converge beneath dazzling lights. Each crime scene becomes a confession, each character a mirror of a society that looks away from its own reflection. From the alleyways of Wanhua to the boardrooms of power, the investigation peels back layers of corruption, obsession, and silent complicity-until justice itself begins to bleed.Other stories expand this anatomy of fear. "Mirror Prison", "Abyss of the Scamnet," and "Rain-Soaked Noose" explore the new moral terrain of Taiwan's digital age, where loneliness turns viral and empathy erodes into voyeurism. "The Knife That Gnaws at the Old" exposes the quiet cruelty of neglect, while "Darknet Lost" and "Blood-Stained Likes" transform online fame into modern sacrifice. Every case file stands alone, yet together they form a mosaic of conscience-a crime atlas of an island wrestling with memory, guilt, and survival.Chang writes not of who killed, but why we kill. His prose is forensic yet lyrical, cut with the precision of a reporter and the empathy of a witness. Beneath the suspense lies a deeper examination: the corrosion of trust, the ghosts of colonial wounds, and the fading boundary between justice and vengeance. Through recurring characters-detective Zhang Jie-an and profiler Chen Pin-yi-he builds a mythology of resilience within institutional decay. Their pursuit of the "Specimen-Maker" and the Viper Syndicate unfolds as both thriller and elegy, a meditation on how truth survives when systems collapse.For readers of Keigo Higashino, James Ellroy, or Stieg Larsson, Taiwan Case Files VIII offers a new frontier of East Asian noir-gritty, psychological, and morally unflinching. Each page drips with atmosphere: rain, cigarette smoke, and the faint hum of conscience. The language is cinematic yet restrained, inviting the reader not merely to solve crimes, but to bear witness to what society hides.Chang Li Yen's acclaimed series has become a phenomenon among readers who seek authenticity behind the sensational. His blend of realism and poetic dread transforms true social fractures into narrative art. In his world, every headline becomes an elegy, every corpse a question that refuses silence.Open this book, and step into the darkroom where truth develops.The light may flicker-but once you have seen it, you can never return to ignorance.Truth demands witnesses. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Eyes Beyond the Shore - by Chang Li Yen In Eyes Beyond the Shore, acclaimed Taiwanese author Chang Li Yen leads readers across the shifting boundary between life and death, memory and history. Blending supernatural mystery with historical resonance, the book traces the hidden emotional currents that bind the living and the departed across the waters of East Asia. A gifted empath touches the grief that lingers in a piano haunted by wartime longing.A detective walks through mirrors into the reflection of his own fear.A historian of the Min River deciphers the voices of the drowned.Across the Strait, listeners, dreamers, and seekers awaken to the same undertow-an invisible tide that carries love, guilt, and unfinished stories between generations. Through twenty-five intricately connected tales, Chang constructs a mosaic of "the other shore"-a realm where memories breathe and the soul's residue shapes reality. Each story stands alone as a mystery of its own, yet together they form a grand meditation on remembrance and redemption. The empaths, restorers, and truth-seekers of these pages are not heroes of power but of sensitivity-those who feel too deeply, who perceive the pain others deny. Their journeys expose the fractures beneath modern civilization: wars unhealed, families divided by borders, and the eternal question of what it means to be human when the past never truly dies. Chang's language is lucid and lyrical, his atmosphere cinematic yet intimate. Drawing on his background as a journalist and cultural historian, he fuses investigative precision with spiritual introspection. Eyes Beyond the Shore expands the territory of crime and ghost fiction into something larger-an exploration of empathy itself. Every supernatural encounter mirrors a social truth; every haunting reveals an unfinished chapter of collective memory. From the rain-soaked streets of Taipei to the mirror-bright corridors of Hong Kong, from Kinmen's war-torn tunnels to the river fogs of Fujian, the settings shimmer between reality and dream. Beneath the suspense and metaphysical beauty runs a profound moral pulse: that memory, however painful, is the bridge that keeps humanity whole. Eyes Beyond the Shore is both an epic of unseen connections and an elegy for what history forgets. It invites readers to look beyond the surface-to see with "heterochromatic eyes" that discern both the real and the illusory at once. When the final page closes, the silence left behind feels like the sea after a storm-emptied of voices, yet marked by countless footprints. For those who loved The Shadow of the Wind, The Book of Lost Things, or The Sixth Sense, Chang Li Yen's haunting new work offers a rare fusion of mystery, philosophy, and emotion. It is a book about the invisible architecture of feeling, where empathy becomes both gift and curse, and where every ghost is, ultimately, a reflection of ourselves. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…