Book Talk: Heaven Does Not Block All Roads: A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao

The Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS) cordially invites you to our next Community Conversations event in Washington, DC, a book talk by Anna Beth Keim, author of Heaven Does Not Block All Roads: A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao. The event will be held at The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. Food and drink will be served.

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.

You can find the book available on Amazon here

*Please register via this form

Schedule:

• 16:00-16:45 - Welcome reception with refreshments. Feel free to show up at any time during the reception.
• 16:45-18:00 - Talk and Q&A
• 18:00-18:15 - Optional casual networking and chatting/wrap up.

Location:

The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation

1156 15th Street NW Suite 1105

Washington, DC 20005

Google Maps: Here

Speaker:

Anna Beth Keim is a freelance journalist who has been reporting on Taiwan since 2015. 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.

Format: Off the record; Questions are encouraged during the event.

Registration: via this Link

Moderator: William Yale, Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies

Seminar Cost: Free of charge