Fireproof Moth: A Missionary in Taiwan's White Terror

Name: Fireproof Moth: A Missionary in Taiwan's White Terror
Brand: Sunbury Press, Inc.
SKU: 9781934597323
Price: 1848.00 INR
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by Milo L. Thornberry

Sunbury Press, Inc. · 2011 · Paperback

Milo L. Thornberry's memoir tells how a missionary in Taiwan helped the human rights leader Peng Ming-min escape the island after he came to believe secret police were plotting against his friend.

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About this book

This memoir is set against the backdrop of Taiwan's White Terror, the period named in its subtitle. Milo L. Thornberry, a missionary, describes the moment he decided to act, once he was convinced that the secret police planned to arrange an accident that would kill his friend.

The account covers how the human rights leader Peng Ming-min was helped to leave Taiwan. The catalogue description says the getaway was so successful that the story runs on to the meeting of Nixon and Chou En-lai in Beijing two years later.

Readers interested in Cold War Asia, human rights and missionary history will find the book a first-hand record of a personal decision with wide consequences.

Bibliographic details: published by Sunbury Press, Inc., with the ISBN-13 9781934597323.