Did You Know That … ?
- Yang Kui (楊逵), known as "Yo Ki” to Japanese readers, was a writer-activist who championed the proletarian literature movement in Taiwan during Japanese rule.
- After the Feburary 28 Incident of 1947, he drafted "A Declaration of Peace (和平宣言)” in 1948 and was subsequently imprisoned on the outlying Green Island for over a decade. He is rumored to have said, "that was the highest payment I've ever received for writing, six hundred words in exchange for twelve years of free meals.”
- Twenty-four years after his death, his great grandson Wei Yang (魏揚) partook in the Sunflower Movement of 2014, in which a coalition of students and civic groups protested against the signing of a cross-Taiwan Straitpact that dealt with trade of services.
Read more about the writer here or scroll down for photographs.