The Soul of Jade Mountain won the 2007 Taiwan Literature Award for the best novel, and this is the first English translation of an ethnographic novel by an Indigenous writer by a North American publisher.

Mercenary King Chen Qingyang returned to the city to protect his comrade's sister. the goddess. In the bustling city, Chen Qingyang was like a fish in water, carefree and at ease. And to see how the previous generation's soldiers would use their iron fists and wits to build a business empire...

His developers had also hidden all the shortcuts in human evolution into the game. In order to obtain the so-called "Life Code", a group of strong men were running amok, they were willing to do anything they could to get their hands on. National forces and large financial groups were all in place to engage in fierce battles, and the fate of the human race had changed because of this game. Ye Wei, a college student who had just graduated, would he be able to carve out a path of blood for himself?

The six stories in this collection are representative works from the mature period and the war period. Each story depicts different hardships and predicaments faced by Taiwan as a colony under Japanese rule, offering insight into how this part of Taiwan's history continues to impact contemporary Taiwanese society.

First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book-length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature (youji), James M. Hargett identifies and examines core works in the genre, from the Six Dynasties period (220–581), when its essential characteristics emerged, to its florescence in the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). He traces the dynamic process through which the genre, most of which was written by scholars and officials, developed, and shows that key features include a journey toward an identifiable place; essay or diary format; description of places, phenomena, and conditions, accompanied by authorial observations, comments, and even personal feelings; inclusion of sensory details; and narration of movement through space and time. Travel literature’s inclusion of a variety of writing styles and purposes has made it hard to delineate. Hargett finds, however, that classic pieces of Chinese travel literature reveal much about the author, his values, and his view of the world, which in turn tells us about the author’s society, making travel literature a rich source of historical information.

Heaven and Earth devils ran rampant, ghosts and bloodthirsty, and he was well-established in the world, cultivating heaven-defying techniques. A word could be spoken day and night, while a word could be spoken to cause stars to fall. His words were like a myriad of curses, and his gaze was like a curse. It could intimidate all worlds, and could end the lives of hundreds of millions of creatures. I want all the stars in the universe to be my eyes, I want all living things to understand my own will ... Zhou Qing.

路跑是深度體驗山林與在地文化的方式之一。台灣一年有上百場次、不同主題的馬拉松賽事，吸引許多外籍人士及遊客前來參加。本期《光華》封面故事將以各種不同類型的馬拉松為報導主軸，如峽谷馬、小鎮馬、越野馬⋯⋯等，除了介紹路線特色，還會帶給大家沿途鄉鎮的歷史、文化與在地人情味，展現出台灣運動觀光的豐厚底蘊。 此外，前兩年因為Covid-19疫情而暫緩的海外採訪計畫，在今（2023）年隨著全球疫情陸續解封而重新啟動，《光華》採訪團隊首站即前進「越南」，帶來第一手的現地報導。台灣為越南第四大投資國，加上在台灣有逾25萬名越南籍移工及逾十萬的新二代，兩國在經濟、文化上的交流十分密切。從本期開始，《光華》將陸續刊出從「經貿」到「醫療」，從「藝術」到「飲食」的台越民間交流情況，以及千百年來雙方相互往來的歷史淵源。