"Comparatively speaking, today's book fairs are a lot different from the ones held before," says Wang Bing-jyun, who left the country for six years. Fifteen or 16 years ago, when he was still in college, typical books to be found in book fairs were such weighty tomes as Wuthering Heights, Crime and Punishment or Tu Wei-ming's translation of Western Civilization aimed purely at the student consumer.
去國六年的王秉鈞心裡想著，十五、六年前，當他還在大學階段，書展的「入門」書，無非是如「咆哮山莊」、「杜斯妥也夫斯基」，或是杜維明翻譯的「世界文明史」等思想性書籍，純以學生為主要消費對象。