"I want the world to know that there are people speaking up and trying to change society here."
Mike Fu
Mike Fu is a PhD candidate at Waseda University in Tokyo. His translation of Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao was named a Favorite Book of the Year by the Paris Review and shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Prose. 
Subaquatic Homesick Blues
A Taiwanese scifi novel—set under the sea, after the surface becomes unlivable—reveals the remarkable burst of cultural freedom in 1990s Taiwan.