This vivid memoir begins with Taiwanese democracy activist Peng Ming-min (彭明敏) rejoicing that he is on the open ocean and finally beyond the clutches of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). The year is 1969 and Peng has endured 14 months in jail, plus four years surveillance as a dangerous dissident. But now he is free, having been freed from jail by former president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) against all the odds.
The death of Peng in April has thrust this important figure back into the limelight. And Camphor Press has recently reissued A Taste of Freedom: Memoirs of a Formosan Independence Leader,