Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan

This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ethnic, age, and political perspectives.

It is filled with "unexpected gems", writes Scarlet Cheng in Belles Lettres , including Lin Hai-yin's story of a woman suffering under a feudal system that dominated Old China; Chiang Hsiao-yun's optimistic solutions to problems of the elderly in the rapidly changing Taiwa…