Chinese Original Works

Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean, French Winner of Bologna Ragazzi Award 2023, Comic-Early Reader!

Blazing a new trail, this is the “highway version” of Peter Hessler’s Country Driving. Absolutely real and absolutely magical, a documentary text filled with the ethos of those living at the bottom of society.

Where is ‘China’? Who are the ‘Chinese’? Why does it concern me? After Trump's series of anti-China policies, the Western world seems to have suddenly woken up from a dream China and started to look at them from a different, but probably more realistic, perspective, only to find themselves not quite understanding who they really are. To gain true knowledge and insight to Modern China, it is essential to look into their past and find out the mindset and culture cultivated over millenniums.

* Winner of the 45th Golden Tripod Awards * Most anticipated novelist under 45

Rights Sold: French A young boy types into a search engine: THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. It is there that he decides to go.

In Huwei, central Taiwan, a military family settlement sees successive waves of residents arrive, hoping to find a place to call home. What none suspect is that their dreams are intimately tied to the ghosts of WWII and martial law that still haunt the area. Constructed on the site of a former Japanese air force base, the Huwei military family settlement housed Nationalist soldiers and their dependents who retreated to Taiwan in 1949. The four tales in this graphic novel move through various periods of time, weaving together the lives of the residents of Huwei with the voices of ghosts from the past, thereby addressing the complex history of the Americans, Japanese, mainland Chinese, and local Taiwanese who have all left their mark there.

Rights sold: Japanese, Korean, Thai, French, Italian For all the striving employees out there…

What if China invades Taiwan for real? The first graphic novel based on the backdrop of the Taiwan Strait War. The author’s military background makes his work more relevant to the real-world situation.

Tsuan-Ti Chen was born in a small town in central Taiwan during Japanese rule (1895 – 1945). He studied in Japan to become a doctor and was drafted to fight in South-East Asia for Japan in World War II. When his ship was sunk by enemy fire, he was sent to Saigon where he experienced personal pain and the fragility of life in the brutal realities of war. Miraculously, he survived and made his way back home but things were far from peaceful. Two years after the war, he was selected as one of the leaders to defend his town against the nationalist government’s violent suppression of 228 Incident. Between his personal calling and his family and friends, which should he choose to sacrifice? The Man Returning from Afar portrays how a generation of Taiwanese choose their path of life in a time of turmoil.

Book 1 Dates: 2022/07/22 Pages: 192

My son was my “laboratory mouse”! When smallpox threatened the world, people tried everything to fight it and Dr. Edward Jenner was one of them. He discovered that people who had cowpox wouldn’t get smallpox! He needed more cases to prove it so he needed a few “laboratory mice” (in this case it’s human)…. And he even made his son to be one of the “mice”!

Rights sold: simplified Chinese Selected in recommended books from Taiwan in Guadalajara Book Fair (2021), Bologna Children’s Book Fair (2022) and Frankfurt Book Fair (2022)