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A U.S. officer shoots dead a 'Peeping Tom' allegedly spying on the officer's wife as she took a shower. The subsequent trial and verdict lead to the incredible -- yet little-known -- story of riots that ransacked the US embassy in downtown Taipei... in 1957! --When the ROC and the USA were supposed to be best buddies.
Cover image and below: Rioters ransack the U.S. Embassy in Taipei in 1957 (pic via THINK CHINA/Taipei Times)
Read: TAIWAN IN TIME: A ‘great national shame’ - "This week’s column looks at president Chiang Kai-shek and US Ambassador Karl Rankin’s reflections on the May 24 Incident of 1957 when a mob stormed and ransacked the US embassy."
Below: The U.S. carrier USS Lexington (top) with a supply ship and USS Marshall (bottom) off Taiwan during the Second Taiwan Crisis in 1958.
(Image via Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
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Check our very first episode, the story of a very white man who showed up in London in 1703... and claimed to be from Formosa. Or try a foodie episode from Season 3. Or, for those who want some harder-core history, hear the tale of the Lockheed U-2 pilot Wang Hsi-chueh 王錫爵, who became famous for defecting to the PRC by hijacking China Airlines Flight 334 on May 3, 1986.
