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Podcast: New Books in East Asian Studies
Episode: Brian Hioe, "Taipei at Daybreak" (Repeater, 2025)
Description: Brian Hioe is a Taipei-based writer, editor, translator, activist, and DJ who is best known for his journalism regarding Taiwan’s social and political landscape. Much of his work appears in New Bloom Magazine, an online magazine that he helped establish in 2014 to cover activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific at large.In this episode of the New Books Network, we talk with Brian about his debut fictional novel, Taipei at Daybreak (Repeater Books, 2025).Taipei at Daybreak is a work of autofiction that draws heavy inspiration from Brian’s experiences with activist...