A lifelong critic of government and dogged defender of human rights, his example sets a high standard for modern intellectuals determined to make the world a better place. Born Kuo Ting-sheng in Henan Province in 1920, he later renamed himself Kuo Yi-tung, and, after coming to Taiwan, became a writer.
而他一生針砭時政、捍衛人權的堅持，也為淑世型知識份子立下典範。柏楊，原名郭定生，後改名郭衣洞，1920 年出生於中國河南。