ISBN10: 0231143605, ISBN13: 9780231143608, [publisher: Columbia University Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 material as well as her own original research, Sylvia Li-chun Lin conducts a close analysis of the political, narrative, and ideological structures involved in the fictional and cinematic representations of the 2/28 Incident and White Terror. She assesses the role of individual and collective memory and institutionalized forgetting, while underscoring the dangers of re-creating a historical past and the risks of trivialization. She also compares her findings with scholarly works on the Holocaust and the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Japan, questioning the politics of forming public and personal memories and the political teleology of "closure." This is the first book to be published in English on the 2/28 Incident ...

ISBN10: 0231143605, ISBN13: 9780231143608, [publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR] Hardcover 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 Te.
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ISBN10: 0231143605, ISBN13: 9780231143608, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover 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. . 2007. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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