Portraits in White

May 19, 1949, the declaration of martial law in Taiwan signals the start of the White Terror—nearly four decades of intense surveillance, disappearances, and political oppression targeting Taiwanese people resistant to Chiang Kai-Shek’s authoritarian rule. This collection of three novellas demonstrates the ongoing struggle to maintain normalcy—the simplest of dreams: the pursuit of an ordinary life—in a time of political repression.