VIDEO - The 1976 Double Ten-Day Bombings – S6 [Bonus]

The Taiwan History Podcast: Formosa Files · Aug 23, 2026 · 17m

In October 1976, three innocent-looking dictionaries were mailed to senior officials in Taiwan. Hidden inside each was a homemade bomb. Two exploded, and one of the targets, Taiwan Provincial Governor Hsieh Tung-min, was badly injured. Hsieh (1908–2001) was a Taichung native who had left Japanese-ruled Taiwan as a teenager to study in China. He joined the KMT in 1930 and was one of the Taiwanese returnees who became important intermediaries in Taiwan's postwar years.The bomber was Wang Sing-nan, born in Tainan in 1941. After moving to the United States for business, he became involved in…