The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31601-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 310 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobs, J Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

J. Bruce Jacobs, Ph.D (1975, Columbia University) is Emeritus Professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He has published many books, research articles and book chapters as well as newspaper columns on Taiwan and China.