Lost Son of China

One wet Sunday morning in the winter of 1958, a grandmother in a modest house in the north Taiwan town of Hsinchu called her teenage twin grandsons to her side and, her face covered in tears, showed them a crumpled photograph of a young woman.

“This is your mother, she died so young,” she said. “She is your mother and your father is Chiang Ching-kuo.”

The…