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About this book
In 2010, Kim Liao traveled to Taiwan to learn the truth about her family. After WWII, her grandfather Thomas Liao became the leader of the Taiwanese independence movement, his land was seized, his relatives were arrested, and his nephew was sentenced to death. With their lives at stake, Thomas's wife Anna brought their four children to America to start a new life—never speaking a word about Thomas again.
When Kim arrived in Taiwan six decades later, she was shocked to learn that the KMT government had erased much of the story of Taiwanese independence from the official historical record. For years, Taiwanese citizens were kept in the dark about the violence that transpired during four decades of martial law, with the silenced voices of the White Terror Period mirroring the silencing of the Liao family's story.
Despite this suppression, she learned that former independence leaders had preserved this history in their memories and personal archives. With their help, Kim discovered two stories: her family's story of love and loss, and Taiwan's fight for freedom.
When Kim arrived in Taiwan six decades later, she was shocked to learn that the KMT government had erased much of the story of Taiwanese independence from the official historical record. For years, Taiwanese citizens were kept in the dark about the violence that transpired during four decades of martial law, with the silenced voices of the White Terror Period mirroring the silencing of the Liao family's story.
Despite this suppression, she learned that former independence leaders had preserved this history in their memories and personal archives. With their help, Kim discovered two stories: her family's story of love and loss, and Taiwan's fight for freedom.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Author’s Note
- Part I
- The Wrong Kind of Chinese
- My Only Clues
- Anna in the Japanese Tropics
- The Attic
- Great Expectations
- Part II
- Anna’s Escape
- The Surrogate Son
- The Men Who Would Overthrow Generalissimo Chiang
- The Whitewashed Museum
- The Trap
- Cookie Tins
- Part III
- Green Island
- The Freedom Fighter
- An American Family
- The President of the Republic in Exile
- Knowing and Not Knowing
- Surrender
- Part IV
- Return to Silai
- Starting to Think like Anna
- A Family of Gamblers
- The Garden of Abandoned Chiangs
- Hungry Ghost Month
- One Last Glance at the Golden Death Warrant
- Acknowledgments
- Notes and References
- Bibliography and Further Readings on Taiwanese History
- Index
- About the Author