| The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard Contributor(s): Jacobs (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004315411 ISBN-13: 9789004315419 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $106.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - General - History | Middle East - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9.3" (0.85 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |