In these tales of love lust and relationships gone awry YunHan Chao portrays a city and culture of secret desires hidden passions and endless regret Home Planet News Sex in Taipei City is not what one expects it is repressed traded for cash vengeful sometimes awkward and almost always secretive In Sex Taipei City a diverse cast of characters finds relationships more trouble than they bargained for Some are young and innocent a teenager loses her virginity to a Ching Dynasty torture device in her familys Strange Objects Museum Some are far from innocent a schoolgirl sells her body as an odd form of revenge and a grandfather alienates his family by watching Japanese porn at too loud a volume For others sexuality is a battle a wife leaves her husband over a sexist joke a foreign nanny steals an American baby a mail order bride runs away and a spinster beats up a pervert in the MRT stationFrom the fascinating quirks of food obsessions to the oddbutseeminglyordinary erotic moments of Taiwanese citizens YuHan Chaos Sex Taipei Citys stories unfold a world of both the exotic and the familiar captured in squirmy disarming details Funny bold and in moments heartbreaking these nineteen stories make up a stunning debut William J Cobb author of The Bird SaviorsContemporary Taiwans contradictions come to life in YuHan Chaos wonderful and gossipy collection Sex and Taipei City These are the stories shared between rounds of karaoke that are so juicy and awful you dont realize it when your song comes on Ed Lin author of the Taipei Night Market novels