S3-E32 - Hakka Author Wu Zhuoliu (吳濁流), Part 2 - Japan’s Surrender and 2/28

Writer Wu Zhuoliu 吳濁流 (1900-1976), sadly, never saw
Taiwan blossom into a democracy. But he left us with some of
the most important works ever written about 20th-century Taiwan.
Among these is the autobiography “The Fig Tree”, whose early
chapters mirror the events in his acclaimed novel “Orphan of
Asia.” In S2-E29, we covered Wu’s younger years as in Japanese
colonial Taiwan, his grandfather’s tales of a cultured, ancient
China and the influence these ideas had on Wu. We told the story
of Wu’s time in “the Motherland,”  where he discovered that
the China of his imagination was simply that – imaginary. Today,
we pick up his story as WW2 comes to an end and the Chinese
Nationalists arrive. Wu describes how Taiwanese jubilation soon
turned to despair, and how this exploded into riots and killings
known collectively as the 2/28 Incident.


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