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Roses grow in a crevice of rock — On the literature in Czech and Taiwan
“Czechoslovakia, this communist country, is composed of two ethnic groups with two languages in common use. One is Czech, and the other is Slovak.” This is how Iap tsioh-to (Taiwanese: Ia̍p tsio̍h-tô, Mandarin: Yeh Shih-tao) wrote at the beginning of his …