Report: Holy Ground, Haunted Past – Religious Responses to Ghost Stories and Political Memory on Green Island

This report by Fang-I Chu examines how ghost stories across Taiwan operate as informal modes of remembering the authoritarian past, particularly when official transitional-justice initiatives encounter political resistance or social unease. Focusing on Green Island—formerly a political prison—it traces the ways residents, survivors, tourists, and religious groups engage with the island’s commemorative landscape.