Essay
Places, in prose
A slower way in — each place as it is on an ordinary day, written to be read at leisure.
- The Lantern That Waits a Year
- What the Brick Kept in Me
- 峇里的美，不只在岸邊
- 一堆燒燙的石頭，煮出巴列姆的時間
- Bangkok, Always in the Middle of Becoming
- 緯度零度，Bonjol 就坐在這條線上
- Buol 的一顆椰子，剖開就是整片北岸
- Chiang Mai, and the Bowl as It Is Given
- A Hundred Metres of Chonburi
- The Man Behind the Coconut Face
- 登巴薩不是用來路過的
- Fukuoka After the Broth Comes Up
- The Bridges of Gujo Hachiman, One After Another
- 三點六公里的街，Jember 把顏色全攤開
- Keelung Is Built Uphill, in the Wet
- 金門不只是一座離島：當砲火退去之後，風景才慢慢長成今天的樣子
- 科莫多難忘的，不只是哪一座島
- Kyoto, Kept Below the Surface
- 一場火山噴發之後，多巴湖把時間留了下來
- In Lukang, a Cake Keeps the Time Slow
- 南投最好的時候，通常不在制高點
- 新北真正好看的，不在主線上
- Osaka at Ground Level
- The Colour the Chinese Left on the Wall
- 一千五百座島，把聲音收進海裡
- A Bowl of Soup Curry
- 一盞紅燈籠，說出整座 Singkawang
- The World Some Hands Left Standing
- The Oldness of Tainan Is Not on Any List
- 台北的底色，不在天際線上
- Taitung, a Hundred and Seventy Kilometres Long, in No Hurry to Be Seen
- The Green Ball at the Brewery Door
- Tokushima Comes Together Only After Dark
- Tokyo, Read as a System of Signs
- The Blade and the Wax