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Posted On: October 8th 2026, 11:43 am

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here’s your reminder to take the selfies, have the bathroom photoshoot, wear the dress, feel beautiful & never stop playing dress up 💅

dress is from @revolve circa 2022! it’s the Katy Dress in Pearl by MISHA (and there’s only one size left!). ps. I’ve been making an effort to shop my own closet and rewear pieces I already love lately 🤍

and because I know someone will ask how I took these photos… LensBuddy app + tripod + ring light! edited in @tezza using the “butter” filter 💛

She did it again!!
Du är en sån jävla krigare och jag är så sjukt stolt över dig!! ❤️ Grattis till ännu en glassko bby!!!

CLOCKED IT!!!!

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Statement on the copyright infringement of the English translation of Taiwan Travelogue
《臺灣漫遊錄》英譯本著作權遭侵權聲明（華文版本從slide 10開始👉）

On July 2, 2026—roughly six weeks after the English translation of Taiwan Travelogue won the International Booker Prize—I first learned that a European publisher was planning to release a translation of the book that was translated from my English text, not the original Mandarin text Táiwān Màn Yóu Lù (《臺灣漫遊錄》) by Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ, without my consent.

This publisher commissioned a translator who apparently does not read Mandarin to create a third-language translation using only the English text, which includes my original footnotes and afterword. As I am the sole copyright owner of the English Taiwan Travelogue, which was registered with the United States Copyright Office in 2024, an unauthorized third-language translation violates my copyright.
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How is a translated work distinct from the original work? In literature, there is no such thing as an “objectively accurate” translation. Even this statement you are reading can be translated into millions of word permutations. Language is an imprecise human creation that evolves, imprecisely, over time. This is a concept that the public understands in the context of classical texts like The Odyssey, but less deference is paid to a translator’s creative authority in contemporary literature.

Táiwān Màn Yóu Lù could have been translated into English in countless ways. In the future, it might be retranslated into a very different English book that better suits its time. If I myself were to retranslate the book from scratch, it would be different from the Taiwan Travelogue on bookshelves today.

Translation is adaptation. It is not unlike a filmmaker reinterpreting a book for the screen, or Whitney Houston covering Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.” Whether one is “better” than the other is up for debate. That the two are different is indisputable.

Translation is also performance. If the writer is a scriptwriter, the translator is the actor; if the writer is a composer, the translator is the musician…(cont’d)

Long neck girlies uniteeee I didn’t know I had a long neck until so many of you started commenting on it 😭😂🦒