Currently reading
Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tristes Tropiques
Richard III
The Dwarf
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Labyrinths
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Gravity's Rainbow
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
This looks like a very well written book. It deals with the early history of Taiwan, from the arrival of the duth in 1648, up to the post-war period -- and attempts to show, which is true, that Taiwan was always part of a broad maritime structure of international players (Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, U.S.), and was never really a "part of China" in the way the media thinks of it.