Shortly after his arrival in Taiwan, Bai Yang was sentenced to six months in prison in 1950 for "listening to radio in bandit areas." After being released from prison, he successively served as a teacher.

In 1953, he married Qi Yongpei and had two sons (Guo Bencheng and Guo Benyuan). In the 1950s, he became a member of the China Literature and Art Association.

In 1954, he served in the National Salvation Corps, and Bai Yang began to write novels after serving in the National Salvation Corps, and the novels are quite realistic and critical. In 1959, he divorced Qi Yongpei, married Ni Minghua, and had a daughter, Jiajia (Guo Benming).

From May 1960, under the pen name "Bai Yang", he worked as a columnist for "Relying on Dreams and Gossip" in the "Zili Evening News", and wrote essays that were very critical of the current situation.

Beginning in 1961, "Foreign Land" was published in the Zili Evening News under the pseudonym "Deng Kebao", describing the deeds of a loyal army of the Republic of China who was ordered to retreat to the Yunnan-Burma-Thailand border area, wrestling with fate and hoping to counterattack the mainland.

Although the story is dominated by fictional characters, the tragic and vicissitudes of blood and tears of the protagonists are touching, and there are indeed soldiers and children of the Republic of China who are trying to survive in the north of Thailand, so readers call this unit the lone army in northern Thailand.

"Exotic" was not only made into a movie, but also sold a staggering number of millions of copies in Taiwan, and was a successful war novel.

In 1967, when Bai Yang was the editor of the family edition of China Daily, the edition published the American comic strip "Popeye" five days a week.

In January 1968, Bai Yang was overjoyed by the mention in the translation of Popeye that the father and son of Popeye had been exiled to a small island of abundance. Bai Yang translated "Fellows" as "military and civilian compatriots across the country", which was interpreted by the intelligence unit of the Nationalist Government as a mockery of Chiang Zhongzheng's father and son, and was arrested on charges of "Communist Party espionage" and "attacking the national leadership center", and sentenced to 12 years in prison, and imprisoned in Jingmei Town Military Judicial Prison in Taipei County since 1969.

However, according to Taiwanese writer and current affairs critic Li Ao, "Popeye" was translated by a female overseas Chinese student, and Bai Yang only copied it.

In 1969, Ni Minghua filed for divorce and ended his ten-year marriage. Bai Yang went on a hunger strike for 21 days in prison.

In 1972, he was sent to the Green Island Prison of the Ministry of National Defense along with other political prisoners in Taipei. 1975 year. Due to the death of Jiang Zhongzheng, the sentence was reduced by one-third to eight years in prison.

After completing his sentence in 1976, he remained in custody on Green Island, but was later released at the request of Amnesty International and other human rights groups, where he was imprisoned for a total of nine years and 26 days.

While in prison, Bai Yang completed three manuscripts: "Outline of the History of the Chinese", "Lineage of Chinese Emperors, Empresses, Princes and Princesses", and "Chronology of Chinese History". Originally, there was a fourth "Chinese Bureaucracy". Because the reference book was seized for "safekeeping" by officials in 1975. So only half of it was written.

In 1978, she married Ms. Zhang Xianghua, a poet who later taught at Bei Yinu. After being released from prison, Bai Yang devoted himself to writing. Beginning in 1983, he began to translate and write the Baiyang version of the Zizhi Tongjian with the aim of "overall planning. published in installments", and all 72 volumes were completed by 1993.

In 1985, "The Ugly Chinese" was published, criticizing and discussing the shortcomings of the Chinese collective culture and character, triggering heated debates in the global Chinese community, and in the autumn of 1986, Chinese mainland set off a Baiyang craze, and soon after, the Chinese student movement broke out, the CCP became angry, Baiyang became a criminal in 1987, and all his works were completely banned in Chinese mainland until 2004, when they were officially authorized to be published.

He was also an active advocate for human rights and served as the founding president of Amnesty International Taiwan in 1994.

Since undergoing heart surgery in 1994 and a series of serious illnesses, Bai Yang's health has deteriorated. On May 20, 2000, he was appointed by Chen Shui-bian as a national policy adviser.

In September 2006, due to his age and health, he announced that he would no longer appear in public and be interviewed. In the same month, the preface to the new mainland edition of "Bai Yang Yue" became his final work.

In 2006, Bai Yang agreed to donate 56 boxes of 11,745 documents and cultural relics to the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, and held a press conference on February 6, 2007 to officially hand over the documents and cultural relics donated by Bai Yang.

In addition, Bai Yang is also the first honorary doctor of the National University of Tainan, and the Nanda Bai Yang Museum was opened on June 27, 2007, and donated to the university on March 31, 2007. Including important certificates, marriage certificates, manuscripts, proofreading manuscripts, and miscellaneous manuscripts after arriving in Taiwan in 1949, the amount is equal to the amount of Beijing's collection.

Bai Yang was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and respiratory failure on February 24, 2008, and died at 1:12 a.m. on April 29, 2008 at the age of 88 at Gengxin Hospital, Xindian, Taiwan.

On May 17, 2008, according to his wishes, the family scattered Bai Yang's ashes into the waters of Green Island, and some of the ashes were taken back to Chinese mainland for burial at a later date, and through the efforts of his widow Zhang Xianghua, part of Bai Yang's ashes were buried in Fushouyuan Cemetery in his hometown of Xinzheng, Henan Province on September 12, 2010.

Christian, in 1942, when Bai Yang was in Yanshi, he entered a bomb shelter to escape the air raid, and met a middle-aged woman holding a Bible, praying for the Lord Jesus to protect the safety of two people in the bomb shelter. After confirming that the middle-aged woman was praying for Bai Yang and herself, Bai Yang's reaction at that time was to ridicule her faith.

More than ten years later, he had traveled from the mainland to Taiwan, and one Sunday, he met a group of Christians in Hsinchu, each middle-aged woman holding a Bible, like the woman who preached the gospel to Bai Yang in the bomb shelter, and he involuntarily followed them into the church. From then on, he began to meet and become Christians.

Bai Yang later attended Seventh-day Adventist meetings, even worked as a correspondence teacher at the International Youth Conversion Association correspondence school, and had a marriage to Ms. Qi Yongpei of Ren'ai Road Baptist Church in Taipei.

"Christianity has benefited me so much," says Bai Yang. At 3 p.m. on May 14, 2008, Bai Yang's repositorial service was held in Jinan Church of Taiwan Presbyterian Church in Taipei.

Bai Yang's wife, Zhang Xianghua, said that her husband's novels were terrible and thought that his essays were better than novels, but the "Outline of the History of the Chinese" and "Bai Yang's Edition of Tongjian Chronicles" were well written because they were groundbreaking and used completely different styles and essays.

Physicist Sun Guanhan, a close friend of Bai Yang, said: "Almost everyone knows their proud side, but Bai Yang made me understand my ugly side, and what surprised and saddened me the most was that this terrible ugliness was not exclusive to me, but shared by a billion of my compatriots. 」

Chen Jiangong, director of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, described Bai Yang as "a miracle in the history of contemporary literature".

Wang Rongwen, chairman of Taiwan's Yuanliu Publishing Company, said, "We often complain about social chaos, but Pak Lao can always maintain his faith. Because he looks at things from a historical point of view, he is sometimes more optimistic than us young people. 」

Writer Nie Hualing once commented that Bai Yang's novels and essays have one thing in common, "In the midst of cynicism, there is a deep 'love' and 'affection'. 」

Scholar Chen Xiaoming recalled, "If you want to move towards modernization, you must criticize tradition, and Bai Yang's critical spirit and attitude towards traditional ideology and culture have greatly influenced us, becoming a very classic cognition, which has a great influence on young intellectuals. 」

At the same time, he commented that Bai Yang is a critic of Chinese history and culture, "He 'loves Chinese history and culture deeply, hates it more and more', and only when he is very concerned about traditional culture and has very high expectations for Chinese, will he criticize and reveal its problems."

Bai Yang has written books throughout his life, including ten years of novels, ten years of essays, ten years of prison, five years of columns, ten years of prison, etc., in addition to classical poetry, newspaper literature and other prose, and has completed more than 100 volumes of literary, historical and ideological works such as "The Complete Works of Bai Yang". (To be continued......)