What would a Taiwanese story look like, out of the shadow of China?

Open this photo in gallery: Author Jessica J. Lee went to Taiwan in 2017 to write her second book, Two Trees Make a Forest. While she was there, she lived in a tenement apartment from the 1960s, and spent time retracing the steps to her family's old haunts and venturing into the Central Mountain Range.Ricardo A. Rivas Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese environmental historian and author of three books, including Two Trees Make a Forest, which won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2020. Looking out from the green peak of Qixingshan - Seven Stars Mountain…