INTERVIEW/'Nineteen Eighty-Four' receives timely 1st Taiwanese translation
04/18/2025 02:12 PM
More than 75 years after the publication of "Nineteen Eighty-Four," the Orwellian phrase "Big Brother is watching you" has become so familiar to most of the Taiwanese public that even those who haven't read the novel recognize it.
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