Representing Atrocity in Taiwan : : The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film / / Sylvia 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Global Chinese Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on chinese words and names
- Prologue: Looking Backward
- PART I. Literary Representation
- Introduction
- 1. Ethnicity and Atrocity
- 2. Documenting the Past
- 3. Engendering Victimhood
- PART II. Cinematic Re-creation
- Introduction
- 4. Past Versus Present
- 5. Screening Atrocity
- 6. Memory as Redemption
- Epilogue: Looking Forward
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index