Editorial Note
Chung-jen Chen

￭ Han Kang and World Literature: Memory, Trauma, and Witnessing

Plant Ethics, Vegetal Affect, and Becoming-Plant: An Ecofeminist Reading of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and “The Fruit of My Woman”
Yalan Chang

The Narrative of Emotional Experiences and Reconstruction of Historical Memories: Focusing on the May 18 Novels of Ch’oe Yun and Han Kang
Kuan-Chen Huang

●  Special Issue Translated Articles

Symptomatology of Epoch-traverser: Centering on Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
Hong-Jung Kim (Trans. Ching-Ya Hsu; Trans. Ed. Chung-jen Chen)

Here Comes the Boy, Again and Again: World Literature and the Representation of Gwangju in Han Kang
Youngju Ryu (Trans. Ching-Ya Hsu; Trans. Ed. Chung-jen Chen)

Han Kang between Korean Literature and World Literature
Hyung-jin Lee (Trans. Chung-jen Chen)

￭ General Topics

Towards the “Invisible yet Real Great Image”: A Study on Yang Xiaobin’s Traces and Smudges: Post-Photography
Marvin Wenhan Yu

Kafka’s Tattoo: Embodied Translation in the Works of Ouyang Tzu and Dongfang Bai
Yin-Chang Chou

Between Handwriting and Handmaking: On Xi Xi’s Literary Chronicles of Object-Making and Her Life History of Disability
Yuji Xu