Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film

by Sylvia Li-Chun Lin

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 of martial law that became known as the White Terror. During this period, talk of 2/28 was forbidden and all dissent violently suppressed, but since...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231143605
• ISBN13: 9780231143608
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher