Taiwanese Writer Wang Dingjun

Born in Shandong province, Wang Dingjun (王鼎钧) is one of the most productive and versatile writers in Taiwan. He contributed to underground newspapers during the War of Resistance against Japan, and after 1949 established himself in Taiwan as a columnist, radio playwright, short-story writer, literary critic, communications theorist and television scriptwriter.

His published works include: Three Books on Human Life (人生三书), A Lover's Eyes (情人眼), The Bachelor's Temperature (单身汉的体温度) and Whirlpool of the Left Atrium (左心房旋涡).

In the first chapter of Whirlpool, Wang poignantly compared his parting from his native place 39 years earlier to a reincarnation, with all traces of his "previous life" completely erased.

The suppressed memory of his mainland past, however, constantly returned to haunt him at night in the form of a bizarre dream. In the dream, he was separated into halves at the waist, and his lower body was desperately chasing the upper one.

The nightmare is triggered by something he saw earlier in the day - a row of mannequins without torsos displayed in a department store.

How graphic and unforgettable - the image of the "lower body desperately chasing the upper one"!