During the turbulent 1950s, Chung Hao-tung, then principal of a middle school in Keelung, was arrested and thrown in jail. Chiang Pi-yu was soon arrested herself and subjected to six months of interrogation in a military-police station. After being released from prison, her upper-class family background did not save her from a life of poverty.
在風雷激盪的五○年代，時任基隆中學校長鍾浩東被捕入獄，身為校長夫人的她也因此遭收押偵訊，在軍法處熬過半年的審訊。