Dr. Shieh has been working very hard on his memoirs over the last couple of years. These writings began while he was in detention--in part a way to stay psychologically strong in the face of such injustice and a way to speak directly to his wife and children, from whom he was forcefully isolated. In detention, writing allowed Dr. Shieh to painstakingly itemize his experience, carefully reconstructing the events that led to this disaster, such that he would be able to make completely clear to himself and slowly convince himself that he did not succumb to an inadvertent lack of judgment.
This process has continued beyond the jail cell and the the story has been expanded to Dr. Shieh's broader life--his journey Taiwan to the United States and back to Taiwan, following the desire to return and, as Taiwanese Nobel Laureate Y.T. Lee has said of this particular group of Taiwanese, work to make our own home a better place to live [造好我們的家園].
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