◎The Golden Tripod Award winner's newest city tour book! ◎Let us set off from Tainan and experience the history pulsing through Taiwanese land together! ◎Comes with an illustrated “Tainan Landmark Guide” brochure
A Sirayan girl and a boy from today embark on a journey through time and space, giving a visit to the starting point of Taiwanese history: ancient Tainan.
liao River, the Siraya tribal territory in the Xiliao Ruins, and Forts Zeelandia and Provintia from the time of the Dutch’s colonization of Taiwan. In the process, the pair plays with the prehistoric people of Taiwan, participates in hunting and night rituals with the Sirayans, dresses up as Ming Chinese to interact with the Dutch, and secretly witnesses Zheng Cheng-gong’s acceptance of Dutch surrender…
Follow the steps of this girl and boy pair and walk across Tainan as it flourishes across and epitomizes Taiwanese history. If you do so, you’re signing yourself up for a time machine ride that sweeps past every important point in Taiwanese history. Which landmarks will the two visit? Which spot on the map is the final destination? Only by opening this book and experiencing these wonders by their side will you find out, and truly feel the pulse of this land called Taiwan.
.................................... About Sun, Hsin-Yu
Hailing from Taipei, Sun graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University's graduate art department. During her student days, she won several prizes in illustration competitions. She has illustrated stamps, traveled to the source of the Yangtze River, stayed in America, Canada, and Shanghai, and toured Europe and Asia. Having worked all sorts of visual design jobs over the year, she has won several awards for her works: Day Trip and Afternoon won the Xingyi Children's Literature Award successively; ThePersimmon-Colored Streetlight won the 35th Taiwanese Jin Ding Award; finally, in 2015, A Tour of Beijing won the Italian Bologna Ragazzi Award (making him the first Taiwanese picture book maker to win the Italian young adult non-fiction special prize) and the German White Ravens Award. She is currently focusing on illustration design and picture book making.
Her illustrated works include A Tour of Beijing, A Tour of Hong Kong, Xiaomi Has a Little Bag (published by Hsiao Lu Publishing), and more.
Personal website: www.shystudio.org
