Chi Ta-wei (Author of The Membranes)

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Chi Ta-wei

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in Taichung, Taiwan

February 03, 1972

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Science Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

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Chi Ta-wei was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1972. He attended National Taiwan University, graduating from the Department of Foreign Language and Literature, and received a degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches literature at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan.
Chi Ta-wei is most well-known for his science fiction novel Membrane (膜, 1996), which was one of the first queer novels to be published in Chinese. He has also published various short story collections and volumes of critical essays on queer and science-fiction literature, and translated several foreign works into Chinese, including a series of novels by Italian author Italo Calvino.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 7,010 ratings · 1,268 reviews · 10 distinct works ? Similar authors

	The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei, Ari Larissa Heinrich (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 6,948 ratings — published 1995 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	膜 by Chi Ta-wei, 纪大伟 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perles by Chi Ta-wei, 纪大伟, Olivier Bialais (Translator) 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	同志文学史：台湾的发明 by 纪大伟, Chi Ta-wei 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taipei, Histoires au coin de la rue by Jane Jian, Lin Yao-teh, Walis Nokan 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader by Howard Chiang, Li Ang, 李昂 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	酷儿狂欢节 by Chi Ta-wei, 纪大伟 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	晚安巴比伦 by Chi Ta-wei, 纪大伟 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Faun’s Afternoon by Chi Ta-wei, 纪大伟, Dave Haysom (Translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Umbilicus by Chi Ta-wei, 纪大伟, Susan Wilf (Translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Sometimes she wondered if she should even be living in this world. Not that she wanted to die. It was just that maybe she was better suited to another space, another world: a misfit peach, unsatisfied with its home tree and dreaming of growing on a different tree.”
― Chi Ta-wei, The Membranes

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“Ci sono cose che non serve annotare, è impossibile dimenticarle, eppure le persone hanno sempre bisogno di promemoria per fissare i propri ricordi.”
― Chi Ta-wei, Membrana

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“The hardest thing to imagine was that some twentieth-century elites actually roasted their skin to the color of burnished copper and considered this hazardous activity a form of leisure!”
― Chi Ta-wei, The Membranes

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Membranas, Chi Ta-wei

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Ilión I. El asedio, Dan Simmons

17 votes, 34.0%

Estación Niebla, Enric Herce

11 votes, 22.0%

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