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A Taste of Freedom is the moving story of a reluctant hero and his journey from bookish youth to renowned scholar to political dissident. Peng Ming-min was born into a doctors family in central Taiwan in 1923. He moved to Japan to study, at first French, then law and political science. He was badly injured in a U.S. air raid, losing an arm, and during his recuperation he witnessed the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Pengs post-war return to Taiwan was bittersweet; the islands new masters, the Chinese Nationalists (KMT) were unbelievably corrupt and greedy. For eighteen months they looted our island.... They were carpetbaggers, occupying enemy territory, and we were being treated as a conquered people. When nationwide protests erupted in 1947 in what is known as the 228 Massacre, Peng despite his academic interest in politics kept a safe distance and escaped punishment in the bloody crackdown and purges that followed. Peng pursued his studies in Canada and France, and quickly established himself as an authority in the new field of international air law. Returning to Taiwan, he became a full professor at the age of 34. The young academic star attracted the attention of President Chiang

Author

Peng Ming-min; Ming-Min Peng

Publisher

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780030913884

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir