Koo Yen Pi-hsia, the Luku Incident and White Terror

It is said that Lu, while hiding in the Luku area, was bitten by a poisonous snake and died in the mountains in the fall of 1950, but there is no way of verifying either of these two pieces of information. In November the following year, the Security Command issued a so-called "list of hiding communist bandits who have still not turned themselves in" (尚未自首潛匪名單). Lu was still on the list, with the only notes being "xx years, Taichung County, Taipei singer."

Lu Cheng-hui (呂正惠), a professor in the Chinese department at Tsinghua University who studied Lu Ho-juo's works, says that during the Japanese era, Taiwan's tenant farmers were doubly exploited by the Japanese government and their landlords. Intellectuals sympathizing with the tenant farmers laid the foundation for socialism in Taiwan. Disappointment with the KMT government after it took over Taiwan further helped the leftist trend, and we cannot criticize the behavior of Lu and other intellectuals at the time from the standpoint of today's identification with Taiwan, he said.

In the tragic fate of Taiwan's people in the years following the 228 Incident in February 1947, people like Koo Yen Pi-hsia, Chung Hao-tung, his wife and Lu Ho-juo could not escape the heartless suppression of the White Terror era. In 1952, the terror was further extended to the Luku Mountains.

Research by Ho Jui-ling (何瑞玲), Chen Hsiang-lin (陳祥麟), Huang Pang-ping (黃邦平), Hsu Shao-hsuan (許紹軒), Liu Li-jen (劉力仁), Hung Min-lung (洪敏隆) and Liang Hsiu-hsien (梁秀賢), staff reporters of the Liberty Times.