CultureVOA Interview with Han Xiu, Part Two: My Connection to Taiwan

In an interview with VOA, Chinese-American writer Han Xiu reflects on her 80-year life spanning the United States, mainland China and Taiwan. She discusses how Taiwan launched her writing career, her acquaintance with Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian, and diplomatic episodes involving Ying Ruocheng’s alleged identity as a “spy.” Han says Taiwan’s preservation of Chinese traditional culture may be a major force resisting Chinese Communist totalitarianism and a hopeful route toward China’s future.