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Taipei, March 20 (CNA) Chung Yi-jen (鍾逸人), one of the leaders of the Taichung-based "27 Brigade," which engaged in armed resistance against Kuomintang (KMT) troops during the 228 Incident in 1947, has died at the age of 102.
<strong>Feb. 28 to March 6</strong> Tang Te-sheng (湯德生) stepped out of Taichung Railway Station on March 3, 1947 to see a group of civilians struggling against government troops. He and the other panicking passengers ran from the scene, but the soldiers followed and fired into the crowd. The violence he witnessed was part of the aftermath of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising that started in Taipei three days earlier and was soon brutally suppressed. The fed-up people of Taichung decided to join the revolt on March 2, and fighting was still going on when Tang got ...
<strong>Dec 6 to Dec 12</strong> Yeh Shih-tao (葉石濤) once compared writers to beasts as those who devour dreams to sustain themselves. For the first 18 years of his life, Yeh’s well-off family could afford to let him daydream, and he shut out the world that was being ravaged by World War II, seeking refuge in the world of literature. Despite a concerned teacher warning his father that the boy was “useless,” Yeh had penned three novels by the time he finished high school. His third attempt, A Letter from Lin (林君來的信), was modeled after the work of French novelis...