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On January 27, 4:30-6:00pm the Center for East Asian Studies and the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region at the Hoover Institution are cosponsoring a talk by Anna Beth Keim about her new book, Heaven Does Not Block All Roads: A History of Taiwan through the Life of Huang Chin-tao.
The talk will be held in Lathrop Library Room 224, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305.
This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP here. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the Stanford Book Store on the day of the event. Grab a copy and bring it to the talk to get the book signed.
The talk will be held in Lathrop Library Room 224, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305.
This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP here. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the Stanford Book Store on the day of the event. Grab a copy and bring it to the talk to get the book signed.
Heaven Does Not Block All Roads: A History of Taiwan through the Life of Huang Chin-tao tells the story of Taiwan's past century through the life of one extraordinary individual. Huang was born in 1926, when Taiwan was still part of the Japanese empire. By the time he died in 2019, Taiwan was a bustling, high-tech democracy -- and Huang had lived through every twist and turn along the way. He fought in World War II as a Japanese soldier in China; joined an armed uprising against Taiwan's Chinese Nationalist post-war government; spent twenty-four years imprisoned during the island's decades of martial law, and finally emerged to help lead Taiwan's pro-democracy movement.
His story vividly reflects contemporary Taiwanese history, and illuminates experiences shared by countries everywhere: of colonization and its aftermath, and the ongoing struggle to be free.
His story vividly reflects contemporary Taiwanese history, and illuminates experiences shared by countries everywhere: of colonization and its aftermath, and the ongoing struggle to be free.
About the Author
Anna Beth Keim is a freelance writer and translator, who has been reporting on Taiwan since 2015. Her work has appeared in ChinaFile, Foreign Policy, YaleGlobal and The Foreign Service Journal.
Heaven Does Not Block All Roads, which has been called "a first-class introduction to Taiwan" (Professor O.A. Westad, Yale University), and "a riveting, well-paced story...cinematic" (Los Angeles Review of Books), is her first book.
Anna Beth Keim is a freelance writer and translator, who has been reporting on Taiwan since 2015. Her work has appeared in ChinaFile, Foreign Policy, YaleGlobal and The Foreign Service Journal.
Heaven Does Not Block All Roads, which has been called "a first-class introduction to Taiwan" (Professor O.A. Westad, Yale University), and "a riveting, well-paced story...cinematic" (Los Angeles Review of Books), is her first book.