Paul Engle. Last fall. Hualing received an anonymous death threat because in a recent novel she apparently was not critical enough of the Peoples Republic of China. even though her father was executed by Mao Tsetung. her brother killed while serving In the Taiwan Air Force. and she herself was a refugee who fled to Taiwan from the Communists in 1949. This death threat. which is being investigated by the FBI is not of light consequence in that one of the individuals implicated in the murder of Henry Liu reputedly testified that in coming to our shores he was also asked to murder a prominent American novelist. name unmentioned. As recently as December 1984.