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Knocking Down the Gates of Hell: PLA Air Force Commander Fan Yuanyan’s 1977 Defection to Taiwan and the End of the Nationalist China Dream

The USC U.S.-China Institutes presents a discussion with Professor Andrew Morris on the deflection of squadron commander Fan Yuanyan to Taiwan.

When:
October 25, 2016 4:00pm to 5:30pm
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Squadron commander Fan Yuanyan 范園焱 was one of the eighteen prominent defectors 反共義士 from China during the period 1960-1989. He was 41 and flew a Shenyang F-6,the Chinese version of the Soviet MIG-19, to Taiwan. He was made a lieutenant colonel in Taiwan’s air force and received $600,000 in gold as a reward for his defection. Fan, though, came to feel uneasy about life in Taiwan.

Andrew Morris is Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.  He is author of Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China (2004) and Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan (2010), and editor of Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and Its Contested Legacy (2015).

This event is co-sponsored by the East Asia Studies Center and the Department of History.

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