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Liu Ka-shiang at the age of three with his parents and younger brother.
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Five-year-old Liu Ka-shiang with his younger brother.
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Liu Ka-shiang as a teenager.
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Develops interest in nature: herbs, plants and trees.
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Liu trying to catch butterflies at Nantou, a county that abounds in 330 butterfly species.
Begins writing.
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Liu at Chenggong Ling, a military Training Center for college students.
Published in the literary supplement to The United Daily News.
Obtains a copy of Cold Mountain Poems translated by Gary Snyder and is greatly inspired by it.
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Photograph taken with Snyder in Okinawa, 2004.
Burns all the printed copies of Lower Reaches of the River later.
Starts internship at the literary supplement to The United Daily News.
Begins thirty years of editorship.
self-published
Serves on a Republic of China Navyʼs battleship.
Develops interest in bird watching.
Joins Taichung Wild Bird Conservation Association.
Travels frequently to the upper and middle reaches and estuaries of streams and rivers in Central Taiwan.
Begins nature observation.
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Liu during his military service in the Navy, 1981.
Praised by the cultural critic Zhan Hong-zhi as a pioneer of popular science and nature writing in Taiwan.
Taipei: China Times Publishing Co.
Accumulates background knowledge for writing on birds.
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Liu doing fieldwork, 1983.
Liuʼs poetry begins to circulate among students.
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The China Times Literary Award trophy.
Primarily political poetry,second edition published ten days later.
Taipei: Avanguard Book
Donates copyright royalties to Society for Wildlife and Nature, S. W. A. N., in the hope that the Guandu Nature Park will be set up.
Taipei: Society for Wildlife And Nature
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Liu doing fieldwork, 1985.
Serves as the director of the Art and Literature Section at The Independent Evening Post. Begins research on nature encyclopedia.
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Liu at the Independent Evening Post office, 1988.
Taipei: He Zhi Wen Hua Publishing
Begins writing Taiwanʼs nature history.
Taipei: Linking Publishing
First animal fiction in Taiwan.
Wins the China Times Open Book Award for Top Ten Books of the Year.
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Liu on the China Times Open Book Award ceremony.
Boosts public awareness of the endangered black-faced spoonbill.
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A panorama of the green hills and ponds surrounded by city buildings.
First fiction writing concerning ocean creatures.
Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co.
Wins the award for natural history writing and ecological reportage.
The Songs of the Green Hill trilogy is a carefully documented historical writing and nature survey of Taiwanʼs land, bringing in the concept of “urban wilderness.”
Wins the UDN Literatiʼs Best Book Award for the trilogy.
Wins Taiwan Conservation Award.
Taipei: China Times Publishing Co.
Attempts writing on picture fiction books for children.
Taipei: Taiwan Interminds Publishing
The bedtime stories Liu reads for his son as the prototype.
Taipei: China Times Publishing Co.
Introduces common birdsʼ behavior and habits.
Wins the UDN Literatiʼs Best Children’s Book Award.
Wins the 3rd Little Sun Award from Government Information Office.
Taipei: Taiwan Interminds Publishing
Liu on the UDN Literatiʼs Best Children’s Book Award ceremony.
Seeks to improve the quality of tourism in Taiwan.
Wins the Top Ten Domestic Books Award from Tomorrow Times, Taiwanʼs first electronic newspaper.
Taichung: Morning Star Publishing Inc.
Continues the investigation of small town tourism.
Listed as one of the Top Ten Books of the Year, Editorsʼ Choice, on www.books.com.tw
Taipei: Crown publisher
Wins the China Times Open Book Award for Teen Books.
Taipei: Taiwan Interminds Publishing
Explores the gradually forgotten nature in common peopleʼs daily life.
Wins the Golden Tripod Award.
Joins the International Writersʼ Workshop hosted by the Hong Kong Baptist University.
Explores hills and fields in Hong Kong.
Serves as the curator of the 1st Taiwan Ecological Film Festival.
Taipei: 2-fishes
Edited by his wife Chu Huiching.
Begins longterm cooperation with his wife.
Joins the conservation of Zhongbu Shan.
Uses the Songs of the Green Hill trilogy as the basic reference material.
Participates in “Stray Cats and Dogs Rescue Project.”
Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co.,Ltd.
Dedicates himself to writing as well as nature conservation.
Uses elements of Taiwan history in this animal fiction.
Wins the Taipei International Book Exhibition Prize.
Writer-in-Residence at National Chung Hsing University.
Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co.,Ltd.
Wins the China Times Open Book Award.
Wins the Golden Tripod Award for Best Literature from Government Information Office.
Wins the Book of Taoyuan.
Wins the Book of Taichung.
Writer-in-Residence at National Dong Hwa University.
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The China Times Open Book Award trophy.
Wins the China Times Open Book Award.
Wins the Golden Tripod Award.
Takes part in the Taiwanese-German literature exchange program.
Stays in Berlin for a month.
Participates in the Frankfurt Book Fair on behalf of Taiwan.
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Liu giving a speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Guides students to know the natural environment of Hong Kong.
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Liu with students from City University doing fieldwork.
Introduces students to country parks and wetlands.
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Liu with students from Lingnan University doing fieldwork.
Explores nature in the living space of common peopleʼs daily life.
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Liu visiting Muzha Fruit and Vegetable Market.
Participates in television program to production, representing fieldwork experience .
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Liu doing fieldwork, 2014.
Begins writing on Hong Kongʼs nature.
Wins the China Times Open Book Award.
Wins the Taipei International Book Award.
Wins the Yazhou Zhoukanʼ Top Ten Books of the Year.
Wins the 8th Hong Kong Book Prize.
Wins the Tencent-Daily Chinese Book Award for the Simplified Chinese version of Three Fourths of Hong Kong.
Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co.,Ltd.
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The Taichung Literature Prize trophy.
Win the 10th Hong Kong Book Prize.
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the Taipei International Book Exhibition Award trophy.