In the book Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture, anthropologists Richard Handler and Daniel Segal explore Jane Austen's novels about the social life of the late 18th-century English landed gentry using anthropological theories of kinship, marriage, and social organization. In their view, Austen, much like an anthropologist, intricately portrays the complex social relations of the time and the actions of different characters within them. Literary works can be understood through an anthropological perspective, and similarly, anthropological ethnographies can be discussed from the viewpoint of literary devices and narrative techniques. This relates to anthropology's "interpretive turn," which leads to what anthropologist Clifford Geertz describes as "blurring genres." In this course, we will approach the dialogue between literature and anthropology as an interdisciplinary framework. On one hand, we will reread classic Taiwanese literary works and explore new directions that anthropological theory can open up. On the other hand, we will consider the literary techniques present in ethnographies of Taiwanese society and culture, as well as the writing strategies they employ. A range of text categories such as ethnographies, novels, essays, comics, and audiovisual works will be examined, with the central question being: "How is 'Taiwan' represented?"