TAIPEI, Taiwan — The novel, Taiwan Travelogue, which explores a journey across the island of Taiwan when it was occupied by Japan has stirred up questions about the island's identity and Taiwan's relationships with both its former colonizer Japan, and China. In China, the book has been accused of contributing to what some see as Taiwan glossing over Japan's colonial-era atrocities. NPR recently spoke with both author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King about Taiwan, Japan's colonial era and the pressure from China, which claims Taiwan. King: [Unlike my parents,] for those from my generation and after, Taiwan has always been this bustling, loud democracy. There's a tendency to scold [Taiwan] when the U.S. or others feel Taiwan is being too outspoken and is risking angering China.