Publishing Events in Taiwan: February to June 2003

Taiwan's first cartoon character goes high-tech The manuscripts of Yeh Hung-chia, creator of Taiwan's first celebrated cartoon character, Chu-ke Ssu-lang, were inducted into the Digital Art and Culture Museum of Chiao Tung University, some 20 years after the author's death. The university hopes the move will bring these invaluable and long-neglected resources into the high-tech age. Oriental Publishing shutters bookstores Taiwan's first post-war publishing house Oriental Publishing Co. closed its retail bookstores in March in order to focus on the publication of books for children and youths. Multimedia overthrows traditional reading methods Inventec Tomorrow unveiled an interactive multimedia book combining text and animation, enabling users to enjoy the pleasure of reading anywhere and anytime. The first publication to be released in the new format is Chuangtzu Says. Inventec plans to release other titles on Chinese philosophy and other topics.