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Popeye, Prison, Soy Sauce and Satire: Bo Yang 柏楊 – S5-E17

Popeye, Prison, Soy Sauce and Satire: Bo Yang 柏楊 – S5-E17

Update: 2025-06-26
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Bo Yang 柏楊 (1920-2008)  was a Chinese historian, author, dissident, provocateur, and one of Taiwan’s most controversial commentators. After arriving in Taiwan in 1949 with the fleeing KMT, he almost immediately got into trouble with the island’s new one-party regime for everything from listening to the wrong radio station to critiquing Chinese culture. His most famous work was the incendiary book, “The Ugly Chinaman.” However, surprisingly, the crime for which he was sentenced to nine years in prison on Green Island was translating a “Popeye” cartoon strip!


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Popeye, Prison, Soy Sauce and Satire: Bo Yang 柏楊 – S5-E17

Popeye, Prison, Soy Sauce and Satire: Bo Yang 柏楊 – S5-E17

John Ross and Eryk Michael Smith