The Cultural Bureau of the Taipei City Government has created the "Kishu-an New Building" located at the bottom of Tong'an Street as Taipei's first literary specialized art space, and has entrusted the Taiwan Literature Development Foundation, a non-profit foundation, to operate it since June 2011. The "Kishu-an New Building" is named "Kishu-an Literary Forest," combining with the Southern City Literary Park, offering readers a comfortable and pleasant space where literary friends can read, write, drink tea, have coffee, and chat with like-minded people, both indoors and outdoors. Readers and book lovers may also unexpectedly meet their favorite literary figures, critics, and publishers here.
The historical building "Kishu-an" was once a Japanese-style restaurant during the Japanese colonial period, and after the war, it became a residence for public servants and teachers. Located in the southern part of the city, it radiates out to nearby streets such as Tong'an, Xiamen, Jinmen, and Guling, and extends as far as the National Taiwan University and National Chengchi University areas. It has been a significant site in the history of post-war literature in Taiwan. It is the birthplace of the "Blue Star Poetry Society," the magazines "Literature," "Modern Literature," "Grassland," and "University," the "Chinese Literary Association," the "National Language Daily," publishing houses such as "Chun Wen," "Hong Fan," "Er Ya," and "Yuan Liu," and literary figures such as Lin Haiyin, Lin Liang, Yu Guangzhong, Wang Wenxing, and Yin Di, who have all expanded their literary ideals here. Therefore, in the future, it is expected to re-examine the historical context and treasures of literature, with "Kishu-an" and the "Kishu-an New Building" as the core and starting point.