But in the atmosphere of paranoia following the ROC government's retreat to Taiwan after its defeat in the civil war on the mainland, in 1950 Yen Hsiu-feng was impris oned as a communist spy.
不料，當年因內戰失利遷台的國府風聲鶴唳，民國三十九年，嚴秀峰竟以匪諜案入獄服刑。