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There is absolutely no doubt that this is a really magnificent book. Scott Ezell previously wrote A Far Corner, about life among wood-carvers in south-eastern Taiwan (reviewed in the Taipei Times April 16, 2015). I rated that an instant classic. Now he has come up with a book about a journey from China’s Yunnan Province, through Sichuan, to Qinghai Province. It begins in Dali and ends in Golmud. He travels by bus, motorbike and hitch-hiking. A Far Corner was a book without villains, but this new product has modern China as its devil incarnate. It’s the “empire” of the title, though it�...

Whisper, a novel set in modern-day Taipei, opens with a middle-aged couple on distinctly bad terms with each other. The man is a taxi-driver and his wife works in a restaurant. Because of various heavy penalties imposed on them after some accidents at work they now live in a barely habitable shack. A daughter is absent, for no clear reason. The husband drinks and smokes heavily, while his wife endures yet another accident at work that’s likely to result in even more compensation payments. In addition, each of them begins to experience what initially they take to be hallucinations. The

Last house for the Regent In Amersham-on-the-Hill, 59 years ago this week, 100s of people could be seen queueing down Sycamore Road. They were waiting in line for the Regent box office to buy tickets for the Audrey Hepburn film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Although a popular movie, the high demand for tickets was because the final show, on Saturday 10 March 1962, was to be the last ever screening at the cinema and everyone in the town wanted to be there. The fate of the cinema had been sealed the previous year when Amersham Council sanctioned the application by British Land for its change...