Representing atrocity in Taiwan : the 2/28 incident and white terror in fiction and film /

In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally quashed by the Kuomintang government. The February Twenty-Eighth (or 2/28) Incident led to four decades...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lin, Sylvia Li-chun
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press ©2007.
Series:Global Chinese culture.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/lin-14360
Table of Contents:
  • Ethnicity and atrocity
  • Documenting the past
  • Engendering victimhood
  • Past versus present
  • Screening atrocity
  • Memory as redemption.