BONUS Episode: Linda Gail Arrigo's Verdict on Shih Ming-teh 施明德

Linda Arrigo has been in Taiwan for many years, working as a
human rights activist, as an important member of the early team
of fighters who risked life and limb for a democratic Taiwan, and
more recently, worked with the Taiwan Green Party on
environmental issues such as stopping NPP4. She's also taught in
local universities as a professor. Her Ph.D. thesis (1996) was on
land  ownership inequality in pre-1949 China, a topic she
started working on in 1975 during early graduate study -- but had
to return to because her questionnaires on girl factory workers
in Taiwan (field research 1975, 1977-79) were confiscated during
a police raid on her home following the Kaohsiung Incident. She
was married to the late Shih Ming-teh from 1978 to 1995. And
while, like many, she has a great amount of respect for the
former political prisoner-turned statesman, Linda notes that
history will unfortunately remember the errors he made in his
latter decades that sullied his once-glowing reputation.
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