Elegy of Sweet Potatoes
A gripping, vital account of one man''s imprisonment by Taiwan''s police state early in the Cold War.
In 1954 Tehpen Tsai was arrested by the Kuomintang regime on suspicion of being a Chinese communist agent. After initial weeks-long interrogation near his home he was transferred to a detention facility in Taipei specifically for seditionists and enemy operatives. The evidence against him: two book...
A gripping, vital account of one man''s imprisonment by Taiwan''s police state early in the Cold War.
In 1954 Tehpen Tsai was arrested by the Kuomintang regime on suspicion of being a Chinese communist agent. After initial weeks-long interrogation near his home he was transferred to a detention facility in Taipei specifically for seditionists and enemy operatives. The evidence against him: two book...
