Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism

Illuminates a Cold War transpacific drama played out across US campuses

Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan's colonial history and influenced by the global social movements of their times. As activists, they fought to make Taiwanese people visible as subjects of injustice and deserv...