The books Prison Notebooks, Red Shoes, and Chien Ah-tao-Taiwanese Male, are based on Yeh's own experiences in the White Terror, and on the February 28 Incident of 1947. They are highly autobiographical in nature, with the descriptions of inner feelings and psychology chillingly realist in style.
〈獄中記〉、〈紅鞋子〉、〈台灣男子簡阿淘〉則是以個人的白色恐怖與二二八事件經驗為出發，深具自傳色彩，情節與心理描述十足寫實而撼人。