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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511398703321

Autore

Jacobs J. Bruce

Titolo

The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and memoirs of a foreign big beard / / by J. Bruce Jacobs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2016

ISBN

90-04-31592-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Disciplina

951.24905

Soggetti

Demonstrations - Taiwan - Kao-hsiung - History - 20th century

Political persecution - Taiwan - History - 20th century

Trials - Taiwan - History - 20th century

Human rights movements - Taiwan - History - 20th century

Americans - Taiwan

Electronic books.

Taiwan History Kaohsiung Incident, 1979

Kao-hsiung (Taiwan) History 20th century

Taiwan Politics and government 1975-1988

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 The Dangwai Setting -- 2 The Kaohsiung Incident, the Arrests, the Indictment and the Murder of Lin I-hsiung’s Family -- 3 The Military Trial of the Eight Key Defendants -- 4 The Other Important Trials -- 5 How the Kaohsiung Incident Contributed to Taiwan’s Democratic Movement -- 6 Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard -- 7 Rip Van Winkle Returns to Taiwan -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Kaohsiung Incident of 1979-1980 disturbed Taiwan’s dictatorship and ultimately contributed to Taiwan’s democratization. This book analyzes the precursors to the Kaohsiung Incident, the Kaohsiung Incident itself, the following trials and the contributions of these events to Taiwan’s democratization. After the indictments were issued, the murder of the mother and twin daughters of Lin I-hsiung, one of the defendants, shocked Taiwan and the world. The government accused the author, a well-known scholar of Taiwan, of being involved in the



murder case and he was placed under “police protection” for three months. Part 2 of this book is the writer’s memoir of that period.