Wang Tiandeng disappeared in the fog of February 28

At 6:00 a.m. on March 11, 1947, a group of military police suddenly stormed a residence at No. 15, Gangcheng 1st-cho-mo, Taipei City (now Guide Street) and abducted Wang Tian-hsi, the spokesperson for the February 28 Incident Handling Committee. Wang Tian-hsiang, who was "168 cm tall and weighed less than 40 kg," was never to be seen again, lost in the mists of history.
One account of the truth surrounding Wang Tian-hsing's life and death goes like this: "Someone asked Wang Tian-hsing if he intended to become mayor of Taipei. Tian-hsing replied, 'I wouldn't say such a thing! But if there's an election for mayor in the future, I'll dare to run!' The man immediately said, 'Then you'll be mayor in the underworld!' He then poured gasoline on him and set him on fire, burning him to death."
From tea farmer to civil servant in the social studies department, to editor promoting traditional Chinese medicine, to participating in the Taiwan Autonomous League, then becoming a tea entrepreneur, then entering politics and becoming a first-term provincial senator, to collaborating with progressive youth to launch a newspaper, and finally serving as head of the publicity team of the February 28 Incident Handling Committee. Wang Tian-hsi's life at every stage, and even the legend of his death, lingers in Lan Bo-chou's mind.
In 1987, young Lan Bozhou joined Renjian magazine. Driven by the self-imposed goal of "Taiwanese people should understand Taiwanese history," he began exploring the untold history of the past, leading to his encounter with Wang Tian-hsi's younger brother. In 1989, he wrote "The Eternal Wang Tian-hsi," included in "Song of the Covered Carriage." He later added "Hard-boned, Sharp-minded, and Lofty-minded—Wang Tian-hsi, the Standard Bearer of the February 28 Uprising," included in "Sunken Corpses? Exile? February 28." With this book, Lan Bozhou's biography of Wang Tian-hsi finally comes to a close.
In 2001, a memorial statue of Wang Tian-hsiang was erected in the entrance hall of the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum. Wang Tian-hsiang, who had disappeared in the fog, finally reappeared.
Lan Bozhou
Born in Miaoli, Taiwan in 1960. Graduated from the French Department of Fu Jen Catholic University.
He has worked as a contributing editor for Renjian magazine and China Times Publishing Company, a professor at the New Cultural Workshop of National Central University, and a producer of TVBS's Taiwan Thought Rise. He currently specializes in writing.
He began writing novels in 1983. In 1985, he won the China Times Literary Award for his short story "Death." In 1989, he published his first collection of short stories, "The Traveler." In 2002, he published the novel "The Vine Tree," which won the China Times Top Ten Books of the Year award and the United Daily News Book of the Year award.
Published works include novels such as "The Birth of a Young Novelist" and "The Vine Tree", reportage such as "The Writer's Figure Lost in the Mist of History" and "The Song of the Covered Carriage", historical reports such as "Red Hakka", "Good Women of Taiwan", "Mailang Singing Team", "Communist Youth Li Denghui", "Before Dawn: Recalling the April 6 Incident of 1949", "Searching for the Obliterated History and People of Taiwan", "Taiwanese Student Movement during the Japanese Occupation, 1913-1945", "White Terror", "Sunken Corpses, Exile, and the February 28 Incident", "Red Hakka Village", and "The Disappearing Conscience of Taiwan's Medical Community".

2008-02-29

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