Song of Mount Chatien was a novel filled with political overtones. On the surface, it was a tale of a Taiwanese intellectual on the run from the Japanese, escaping to Mt. Chatien. In fact, while on the surface it took an anti-Japanese stance, it described what Chung suffered under the White Terror of the Nationalist government.
這是一部不管內在、外在都充滿政治意涵的小說，表面上描寫遭日本人追捕的台籍知識份子遁入插天山逃亡的故事，但卻充滿鍾肇政在國民黨政府白色恐怖陰影下的自況意味。