“Unearthing Shadows: Kim Liao Reveals the Haunting Secrets Behind ‘Where Every Ghost Has a Name'”
But in the writing, I didn’t hold back. You can’t hold back in the writing, I think— you can always cut stuff later, but you have to go for the jugular when you’re writing. As it turned out, by the time the book was finally going to be published, many folks didn’t feel so strongly about things anymore. You never know how people will eventually feel when something is published, so you’ve got to write it anyway — at least that’s what I think.
SR: One part that stuck with me was when you discovered that one of the museums you visited in Taiwan would change their exhibits on the Taiwanese independence movement based on whichever political party was in power. Did you encounter other research issues like this, and if so, how did you account for so many different perspectives and political objectives?
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