Interesting to see the house is owned by Taiwanese immigrant to USA
Maybe it’s why Fred is liked in Taiwan. Others know him?
She’s not Taiwanese. She was a refugee who lived here for ten years and left as soon as she could.
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She did live in Taiwan for a long period as a youth, like many at that time.
We are more Taiwanese than she is . Very tenuous connection to Taiwan .
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This is a kind of interesting yet sensitive topic.
She did live in Taiwan during her formative years—from the age of about 17 and 27 as far as I can reckon.
But her ability to move to the US in 1960 means that she was not only a WSR, but also a member of the tiny WSR elite. These people unquestionably have a psycho-social connection to Taiwan but they self-identified unquestioningly as being Chinese. People like this who married other members of the WSR elite like she did were extremely unlikely to have known any Taiwanese people at all except as servants. In my experience, they look down on Taiwan and Taiwanese with unreflective prejudice.
When she left is also important. As Dominic Yang explains, 1959 was the year that WSR finally understood that their stay in Taiwan was not temporary. They were never going to be able to return to China.
As a result, the wealthy elite left if they could while the masses began to set down more permanent roots in Taiwan. For example, this was when people in the squatter camps finally replaced their bamboo and mud huts with small concrete houses.
During the 1960s, WSR started unconsciously becoming Taiwanese and integrating. She missed all this.
Perhaps she has done things that make her Taiwanese but I doubt it very much. Regardless, her appreciation of the Flintstones is very cool and she seems to be an interesting person who has had a remarkable life. Bravo!
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From wiki
PR China and Taiwan
Florence Fang is the founder and (as of 2016) honorary president of the Northern California Association for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (also known as Chinese for Peaceful Unification-Northern California or Northern California Peaceful Reunification Society), an overseas chapter of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification,[10] which is a subsidiary organization of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)[12] that promotes the goal of the PR China gaining control over Taiwan. Chinese media have reported Fang as saying that it was her aim to “prevent the spread of ‘Taiwan independence’ ideology”; and she called Taiwan a “fake democracy” at appearances with CCP officials.[10]
That’s a little much
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Sadly typical.
So what? She has openly called for “reunification” with China and derisively called Taiwan a “fake democracy”.
Fuck her. She’s a commie loving Chinese.
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It was a phenomenon I noted during the HanGuoYu years as he campaigned how even the KMT haters with Chinese roots came out in support of the KMT. I know one guy who was persecuted for his father’s connections to the CCP who still felt more loyalty to the KMT than to Taiwan despite living here for literally DECADES. It is a puzzle that they identify so strongly with China that they conflate the CCP with China. Is that intentional or accidental longing?
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Someone should make a film about that woman.
Guy
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She also appears in this illuminating article:
Guy
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This bit of the wiki was interesting
On the other hand, in 2000 it characterized Chinatown community activist Rose Pak, “who, until the Fangs gained ascendance with Jordan’s election, had the ear of City Hall exclusively” as Florence Fang’s “archenemy.”[5]
There could be a movie in there!
After they got the house, her husband (or preferably much younger side piece) could come down the stairs and bellow “Yabba Dabba Doo!” in a Chinese accent. Huge laugh line
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The film should also include some backdrop of the battles in SF Chinatown between the pro-KMT and the pro-CCP factions (battles that took place all across North America).
There’s so much to tell in this story . . .
Guy
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Yes, I can agree with that, but there is some connection