Taipei People by Pai Hsien-yung

Published 2000 · 484 pages · 133,100 words · about 9 hours at an average pace

How hard is Taipei People to read?

Taipei People scores 48 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Where the story of Taipei People takes place

  • Taipei, 1950s–1960s (1949 to 1970), the main setting

About the author

Pai Hsien-yung