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

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 democratizati...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (190 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.