A niche publisher is using Asian literature to bring Taiwan and Japan closer to Ukraine

A niche publisher is using Asian literature to bring Taiwan and Japan closer to Ukraine

During the Stalinist purges in the 1930s, Ukrainians were forbidden to study or research East AsiaOriginally published on Global VoicesScreenshot from Safran's website. Fair use. Until the 1990s, Ukrainian and Taiwanese literature shared a similar fate on the map of world literature: rarely translated, outsiders perceived them as a literary subset of their larger neighbor, Russia and China, respectively. The situation changed gradually, thanks t…