Our Stories, Our Truths

by Chia-Ling Tsai

Why couldn't Taiwan attend the 73rd World Health Assembly while Taiwan has handled COVID-19 pandemic excellently? Why is Taiwan not allowed to join the UN and its specialized agencies and related organizations? How come China claims that Taiwan is part of China? This story will show you the historical reason. This story involves gender bias, sexual abuse, gangsters' violent crime, and ethnic and cultural conflict during a turbulent era of the second half of the twentieth century in Taiwan.Three sisters were given away by their parents. Ciou-Tao was adopted as a daughter by an impoverished family, and Ciou-Jyu and Ciou-Lian were fostered to be shim-bu-a. What is shim-bu-a?Three brothers all suffered violence, to be killed or on the blacklist. What caused their fate?How did Mei-Ling and Mei-Ai find out that the Chinese veteran, Uncle Huang, was their mother's favorite person in the world, and Uncle Wen-Hua was murdered by the government?Why did Mei-Ling say that people in Taiwan were like frogs kept in the well by the government?These three generations' stories were also all Taiwanese people's stories because they once all lived with the same lies and fear.It started from here. Because the Chiang Kai-shek regime was kicked out of China, they needed a place to stay while they were in exile. Hence, they utilized an enormous lie to stay in Taiwan as a legitimate government. Then, they told more lies to secure their absolute power and punished anyone who might destroy that power on the island.What were the lies that Mei-Ling and Mei-Ai found out? Which truth broke their hearts and motivated Mei-Ling to write Our Stories, Our Truths?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B089M55289
• ISBN13: 9798651967247
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"