In the forty years since Chen’s death, within Taiwan and in its diaspora, Chen has been remembered as a kind and courageous person, a brilliant scholar, a loving husband and father, and a martyr for Taiwan independence. And yet, percolating around the edges, were hints of more complicated narratives...
Wendy Cheng is an associate professor of American Studies at Scripps College. Her current book manuscript, Becoming Taiwanese/American: Cold War Infrastructures of Activism and Surveillance, is under contract with University of Washington Press.
