MORE ON THE WHITE TERROR IN TAIWAN

About the Book

In his second book on the White Terror,  Nardini describes a dystopian society where even an innocent mistake could be interpreted as an act against the government. Even though there was an opposition party, the ruling Nationalist Party of China was for the last two years of the Terror still in charge of the government, the armed forces, the police, and the prison system.  Dissent was not tolerated, and was severely punished.  The society created by decades of the White Terror was a nightmare so bad and dark there was no way to escape it. In the end, the society that had been created by the White Terror had to be gradually dismantled and replaced with a more open, just and democratic one that has made Taiwan one of the most democratic and free countries in Asia today. Nardini's book is a cautionary tale of what should never be forgotten.

About the Author

Daniel Nardini was born in Bloomington, Illinois, and raised in Elmhurst, Illinois. He graduated from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1983, with a Bachelor's degree in anthropology and history, and from Western Illinois University in Macomb in 1986 with a Master's degree in European and Asian History. Nardini taught English as a foreign language in Taiwan from 1990 to 1994, and in South Korea from 1996 to 1997. He worked at Lawndale News in Cicero, Illinois, from 1994 to 2014, and at the Fulton Journal in Fulton, Illinois, from 2018 to 2020. Two of the author's books [My South Korea Photograph Memoir and My Seoul (South Korea) Local Buddhist Temples Photograph Memoir] were exhibited at the 31st Beijing International Book Fair from June 18 to 22, 2025. Nardini has been listed as an Illinois author by the Illinois Center for the Book---an official program of the Illinois State Library, under the Illinois Secretary of State. Other books written by the author include: South Korea: Our Story; The Day China Cried; My Taiwan, Seoul, and Guadalajara (Mexico) Memoirs; My Italian-American Family, Rural Taiwan, and Lawndale News Memoirs; My Taiwan Photograph Memoir; A Taoist in Rural Illinois; More Lawndale News Memoirs; My Taiwan Local Taoist Temples Photograph Memoir; and Witnessing the White Terror in Taiwan: 1990 to 1992. Currently, Daniel Nardini is retired and living with his wife Jade in Chadwick, Illinois.