Citation

Gao P. Taiwan Review 2007; 57(3): 60-64.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Kwang Hwa Pub. Co.)

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Abstract

An online writer Ke Jing-teng, with the penname Giddens or Nine Knives, has published more than 30 books and is a famous personality in Taiwan and China. His novels are an integral part of pop culture and entertainment, and are adaptation to television, movies and comic strips. The writer has formed a business connection with Comic Ritz International Productions Co., a leading producer of television soap operas. His stories explore the bold extremes of humanity and show no reservation in the display of blood, violence, and sex. Gidden's latest published book, The Crime of Sleeping and Walking, is a political sattire in which politicians and talk show hosts are murdered one after the another.