One of just 9 films to be shortlisted for this year's Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, Seediq Bale (《賽德克·巴萊》) is a 4.5-hour epic about one Taiwanese aboriginal tribe’s war of resistance against the Japanese in the 1930s, shot entirely in the Seediq language. As is often the case with contemporary Chinese literature, … Continue reading Seediq Bale, the Novel: Out now in French as “Les Survivants” →