The most influential book of Taiwan's #MeToo movement--a heartbreaking account of sexual assault and a remarkable reinvention of the trauma plot, turning the traditional Lolita narrative upside down as it explores women's vulnerability, victimization, and the lengths they will go to survive.Thirteen-year-old Fang Si-Chi lives with her family in an upscale apartment complex in Taiwan, a tightknit community of strict yet doting parents and privileged children raised to be ambitious, dutiful, and virtuous. She and her neighbor Liu Yi-Ting bond over their love of learning and books, devouring classic works--Proust, Gabriel Garc燰 M嫫quez, the very best Chinese writers. Yet, it is their lack of real-world education that makes them true kindred spirits.Si-Chi's innocence is irresistible to Lee Guo-hua, a revered high school literature teacher and serial predator who lives in her building. When he offers to tutor the academic-minded girls for free, their parents--unaware of Lee's true nature
This book focuses on the various functional properties and potential applications of one-dimensional ZnO nanostructures, from basic principles to our most recent discoveries. It comprises experimental
First Stories: The Frog Prince is the perfect introduction for young children to this classic fairy tale. Push, pull, slide and turn mechanisms bring the story to life and introduce the familiar chara
Partly due to the European Union's insistent and successful policies on pluriculturalism and plurilinguism, there have recently been voices challenging the prevalent and practical consensus in East As
