Taipei Times
Date: Sep 17, 2016
By: Alison Hsiao / Staff reporter
An 81-year-old lawyer who came to Taiwan with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)
Kao Ping-han holds an urn of ashes in Taipei on April 1. Kao helps veterans’ families send their loved ones’ ashes to China. Photo: CNA
when he was 13 said in an interview with China’s CCTV that he is full of “bitterness” that his four grandchildren are all “little Taiwan independence [supporters].”
Kao Ping-han (高秉涵), who was born in China’s Shandong Province in 1935, took his family to China in July to “find their roots,” and during the trip he was followed by a group of Chinese reporters.
Kao is famous in China after he received the “Moving China” award in 2012 for his efforts in helping more than 100 veterans’ families take their loved ones’ ashes to China after they passed away in the past 20 years.
In the interview, Kao said he had taken his grandchildren to China so that they could learn more about Chinese culture, and visit the Yellow River and famous mountains “that are in their textbooks.”
“I want them to look at them for real. They think that those belong to China and have nothing to do with Taiwan,” Kao said. [FULL STORY]
