A compilation of documents on the Formosa Incident published by Academia Historica has revealed new information about the case of democracy advocate Shih Ming-te (施明德).
Shih, a former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman, was imprisoned in 1962 for founding the Taiwan Independence League. After his release, he was imprisoned again in 1980 for his involvement in the Formosa Incident, also known as the Kaohsiung Incident, of Dec. 10, 1979.
In Academia Historica’s recent publication on the event, a previously unpublished Investigation Bureau report showed that authorities at the time had devised a plan to catch Shih, who had gone into
For Taiwanese in an earlier time, most of family life revolved around parents and veneration for previous generations who had passed on to their descendants the source of sustenance land. You could see the lush green rice fields terraced up the hills, or golden with stalks bending under the grains heavy before harvest. I knew that daughters-in-law regularly placed bowls of rice and meat on family altars on which were tablets with names of the ancestors.
When I was 18, in 1967, a handsome young man invited me to go with his family by car to their ancestral farm
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