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Representing Atrocity in Taiwan
Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
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Description for Representing Atrocity in Taiwan
Drawing on secondary theoretical material as well as her own original research, the author conducts an analysis of the political, narrative, and ideological structures involved in the fictional and cinematic representations of the 2/28 Incident and White Terror. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 3JJP; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
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 the lifting of martial law in 1987, this long-buried history has been revisited through commemoration and narrative, cinema and remembrance. Drawing on a wealth of secondary theoretical ... Read more
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 the lifting of martial law in 1987, this long-buried history has been revisited through commemoration and narrative, cinema and remembrance. Drawing on a wealth of secondary theoretical ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Global Chinese Culture
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231143608
SKU
V9780231143608
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About Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
Sylvia Li-chun Lin is the Notre Dame Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests include Republican culture and literary journals, language and identity in Taiwan, and commemoration of atrocity.
Reviews for Representing Atrocity in Taiwan
The result is a complicated and neglected topic managed economically and lucidly in a volume that will surely intervene in Chinese cultural studies but also will prove attractive to anyone concerned with the overarching issue of atrocity and the literary and cinematic representation of the 'disappeared.' The Rocky Mountain Review