Not only has the re-rise of the most historical and gigantic country brought the present world with fresh challenges, it has also created various brand-new possibilities for our comprehension.
Although not unlike Holden Caulfield's lonesome voice in J.D. Salinger's "the Catcher in the Rye", Mr Hou's narrative is a more brutal depiction of the spiritual vacuum of Taiwanese youth.
It unfolds through the eyes of Jo Weismann, an 11-year-old who later escaped from an internment camp near Orleans after his parents were sent to Poland.