Kang-i Sun Chang is Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. In her memoir, Journey Through the White Terror, she tells the powerful story of her father Paul Sun (1919-2007). Along with numerous others, Sun was imprisoned more than 60 years ago during the “White Terror”, the decade following the withdrawal of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government from Mainland China to Taiwan in mid-December 1949. During this time, the Nationalist government implemented a policy of “better to kill ten thousand by mistake than to set one free by oversight,” and as a result, many innocent civilians such as the author’s father became victims of ferocious searches and persecutions. At the time of her father’s arrest, Prof. Chang was not quite six years old; when her father returned home, she was almost sixteen. Having witnessed the injustice of her father’s imprisonment and the freedom their family later enjoyed in America, she felt compelled to write this story.

　　Prof. Chang’s account of how the family survived the White Terror makes her book one of the most intense and thrilling works on the subject. But the book is also about soul-searching and the healing of a childhood trauma. It is a true story about the triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Love and religion in such circumstances prove to be the ultimate deliverance. All this is described in considerable detail in this extraordinary memoir.

作者簡介

The Author∕Kang-i Sun Chang

　　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 Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

The Co-translator∕Matthew Towns

　　Matthew Towns received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Yale University in 2000. He is currently practicing law in Missouri.

From “Swallowing Hatred” to Gratitude: Witnessing the White Terror－David Der-wei Wang
Preface

CHAPTER 1: The February 28th Incident
CHAPTER 2: Age Six
CHAPTER 3: Father’s Story
CHAPTER 4: On the Road to Visit My Father in Prison
CHAPTER 5: My Teacher Mr. Lan
CHAPTER 6: Mother’s Steadfastness
CHAPTER 7: Out from Prison
CHAPTER 8: A Tale of Two Families
CHAPTER 9: Reborn from the Ashes
CHAPTER 10: In the Language Gap
CHAPTER 11: My Uncle Chen Pen-chiang and the Taiwanese Writer Lu Heruo
CHAPTER 12: The Escape from the Tiger’s Mouth
CHAPTER 13: Red Bean Inspiration
CHAPTER 14: Victims on Both Shores
CHAPTER 15: Journey Through the Classics
CHAPTER 16: Moses as I Know Him
CHAPTER 17: The Pragmatic Pioneer
CHAPTER 18: Second Aunt’s Legacy
CHAPTER 19: The Last Card
CHAPTER 20: A Trip to Angel Island
CHAPTER 21: Return to Green Island
CHAPTER 22: My Father’s Hands

Timeline of Major Events
A Short List of Key Words, Names, and Terms