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Yeh Shu-hua has been a Chinese soldier, a prisoner of war and a supposed «anti-communist hero.» All while retaining his love for communist China. His story illustrates the tumultuous, often complex history of East Asia in the 20th century.

Outside historical circles, the name Li Da-an (李大安) will be familiar to few Taiwanese. However, there was a time where this lowly soldier was feted as a national hero in Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) propaganda. As one of 155,000 inmates in the UN’s POW camp on South Korea’s Geoje island, Li was responsible for barbaric murders, mutilations and beatings between May 1951 and April 1952. Yet with the publication of The History of the Anti-communist Fighters’ Struggles by the KMT g...