This was a really interesting read. I visited the National Museum of Taiwanese Literature once and was really interested to read a literature-focused account of the white terror, and it was that museum which played a large part of the production of this book. It's really interesting to read snapshots of different experiences under the KMT's martial law regime. I particularly enjoyed the story "Dixon's Idioms" and the way it focused on languages spoken in Taiwan and the forced language shift of academics from Japanese to Mandarin as well as the suppression of Taiwanese Hokkien. It did really good job of highlighting the way experiences and the languages they took place in become interconnected, and what different languages can come to represent to multilinguals, particularly in a colonial/post-colonial context. Honestly had to take a minute when I finished that one, it was just really moving.
There were also some slightly more surrealist stories too like "My Second Brother, The Deserter" and "Disappearing Manhood" which i didn't quite enjoy as much, but there are still interesting elements to all the stories in the book. Really interesting read, i'd love to find more books published in cooperation with the National Museum of Taiwanese Literature.