Left to my own devices today in Taipei. Rita, Roy and Garry have gone on to Chi Nan University, the others are on their way back from Dong Hwa. I guess I’m being given down time to take the pressure off my one functional leg, but I’m restless. This morning Roy, Rita and I saw…

Buddha on the back of a truck (in Chungli)

Bennett Fu, who I always meet in a different city, and our organizer extraordinaire, Sumeeta Chandavarkar from the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei

Rita Wong and Roy Miki at Kingstone books

Wayde Compton

CTOT organized a party for us at Kingstone Books. We’re posing with CTOT Executive Director Gordon Houlden.Back row L to R: Wayde Compton, Glen Lowry, Roy Miki, Gordon HouldenFront row L to R: Larissa Lai, Fred Wah, Rita Wong, Garry Gottfriedson

For those pedagogically inclined and able to read Chinese, check this: engsite It’s Wenchi Lin’s site for teaching English to Taiwanse students. We are planning on setting up a section that will deal with the work of the writers who are here on this tour. We’ve also been discussing the possibility of a course on…

Thanks to Wenchi Lin we had a speed tour through some interesting local film: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Dust in the Wind– about a group of friends from a small rural town who move to the big city (Taipei) in the 1970s The Last Rice Farmers aka, No Rice, But Be Happy– like Canada, Taiwan is good…