Taipei People
| Author | Pai Hsien-yung |
|---|---|
| Original title | 台北人 |
| Working title | Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream: Tales of Taipei Characters |
| Translator | Patia Yasin |
| Language | Chinese |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Set in | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Publisher | Chinese ed.: Ch'en Chung (1971); Er Ya (1982); GXNU Press (2010)
English ed.: Indiana University Press (1982); CUHK Press (2018) Bilingual ed.: CUHK Press (2000) |
Publication date | April 1, 1971 |
| ISBN | 978-9-622-01859-4 (2000) |
| OCLC | 1078757601 |
| 895.1352 | |
Taipei People (simplified Chinese: 台北人; traditional Chinese: 臺北人; Wade–Giles: Taipei jen) is a short story collection by Chinese-American writer Pai Hsien-yung published in 1971. Comprising 14 short stories of varying lengths written by Pai in the 1960s while attending the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, it encapsulates the individual struggles of immigrants to Taiwan in the 1950s upon the Kuomintang's retreat starting in 1949.
The book was first published by Ch'en Chung (Morning Bell) Publishing Co. in Taiwan in 1971, with reprints from Er Ya Publishing Co. in 1997 and 2002. Between 1976 and 1981, Pai and Patia Yasin co-translated Taipei People into English with editing by George Kao, with it being first published in 1982. Considered one of the most important works of modern Chinese literature, it ranked number 7 on Yazhou Zhoukan's Top 100 Chinese Fictions of the Twentieth Century.