TNUA showcased its latest publications, mostly by its own faculty with subjects ranging from theatre arts, music, museology to cultural studies, at the Taipei 2015 International Book Exhibition (TIBE).
The new books included several on theatre arts, one of them being a new edition of National Taiwan University Prof. Chi Wei-Jan's “Narrating Modern Drama, ” and another a collection of three plays, “An Island Shaded in the Mist,” by TNUA Prof. Chiu Kun-liang.
Other theatre art titles included: “Criticisms and Interpretations of Contemporary Theatre in Taiwan” by Yu Shan-Lu; “New Generation of French Theatre Directors: From Christian Schiaretti to Joel Pommerat” by Prof. Yang Li-Li; and “30 Notes on Acting” by Prof. Hung-Chang Chu.
Also on display were: “The Narrative Turn of Contemporary Museum Exhibition” by Prof. Chang Wan-Chen from TNUA's Graduate Institute of Museum Studies; Department of Music Prof. Wen-Yea Lu's “Gustav Mahler: His Music and His World View”; “Searching for Meaning: Indigenous Culture and Language Education” by Prof. Yen Shu-Huei; and three new volumes of a world heritage series – on Korea, Iran and Thailand, respectively – edited by the School of Culture Resources.
TNUA exhibited its publications in a booth shared with several other major universities of Taiwan. They have jointly exhibited their publications for three consecutive years at the annual TIBE.
At 2015 TIBE, TNUA displayed almost 80 titles that it has published over the past 10 years. It also organized five sessions of discussion on some of the new books.