The Chinese-language edition of the bestselling book “Red Roulette” has finally made its debut in Taiwan. With its subtitle “An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today’s China,” the book’s author, Desmond Shum, said the book tells “the story powerful forces are desperate for you not to hear.”
Encouraged to share his writings by Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement, the author spoke at the book launch about his decision to publish the English-language memoir, and about how Taiwan should be cherished as the last resort for the Chinese people culturally, artistically, economically, and geopolitically.
Once a member of China’s political advisory board, the CPPCC (Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference), Shum said he composed the memoir for his son, whose mother was disappeared by the Communist authorities when he was only 8 years old….