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Taiwanese fiction abroad

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       In Taiwan Today June Tsai reports that CCA beefs up support for Taiwan literary translation.
       That would be the Council for Cultural Affairs -- and:
Under the council's subsidy program, a total of 272 works of Taiwan literature were translated into foreign languages and published between 1990 and 2011, the CCA said.
       A good and unfortunately necessary thing (these things don't translate themselves -- and without 'subsidies' even less would get published).
       But also:
Meanwhile, 10 titles were granted subsidies at the end of 2011. They include a Japanese translation of the biography of Chi Pang-yuan, co-founder of the The Taipei Chinese Pen, French translation of Les Survivants by Wu He, one of the most eccentric novelists in Taiwan, and the translation of Taichung-based poet Bai Qiu's works into German.
       And translations into English ? English ? Anybody ?

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