“As a professor who teaches what is probably the only Taiwan History course offered outside of Asia, I am in desperate need of good first-hand accounts of the fifty-five years (1945-2000) of KMT rule on the island. What Professor Chang has written will wonderfully help fill that need. For many yeContinue
“As a professor who teaches what is probably the only Taiwan History course offered outside of Asia, I am in desperate need of good first-hand accounts of the fifty-five years (1945-2000) of KMT rule on the island. What Professor Chang has written will wonderfully help fill that need. For many years Taiwanese dared not speak out about their sufferings. Today, even though conditions on the island have ameliorated, the habit of silence continues to be preferred as the prudent course. This is why Prof. Chang’s book on ‘the 2-28 Incident’ will be welcome and will, we hope, be followed by further narratives of other incidents and events in this tragic history.”—Beatrice S. Bartlett , Professor of History, Yale University
“The content [of this book] is striking in its immediacy, heart-warming in its humanity, and as a historical document it is extraordinarily informative about otherwise shadowy events. It is truly a deeply moving story, or collection of stories, that will long stay in my memory.”
—F. W. Mote, the late Professor Emeritus of Chinese History, Princeton University.
About the Author
Kang-i Sun Chang was born in 1944 in Beijing, China, and grew up in Taiwan. She immigrated to the United States in 1968. She is now Professor of Chinese Literature at Yale University.
About the Co-translator
Matthew Towns received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Yale University in 2000. He is currently practicing law in Missouri.
走出白色恐怖
寫在這裡的章節大多與白色恐怖有關，但這本書並非控訴文學，也不是傷痕文學。相反地，這是一本「感恩」的書?—對於那些曾經給我們雪中送炭的朋友和親人，我的感激是一言難盡的。那些善良的人大多是被世人遺忘的一群，他們也一直承載著複雜的歷史政治糾葛，因此我要特別把他們的故事寫出來。
這本書也敘述了自我追尋和自我反省的過程。當我站在今天的高度來回憶過去時，我發現我又學到了許多。我原來以為從前幼時所遭遇的患難是我生命中的缺陷，但現在發現，那才是我的心靈資產。我感謝早期那段艱苦的人生歷程，是它讓我在成長中提早成熟，也讓我在缺憾中找到完整的自我。
作者簡介
孫康宜教授
1944年生，普林斯頓大學文學博士，現執教於耶魯大學東亞語文系
