Local religion in I-Lan County, Taiwan (in Chinese). Shih, Fang-Long and Yu, Chien (2003) Local r... more Local religion in I-Lan County, Taiwan (in Chinese). Shih, Fang-Long and Yu, Chien (2003) Local religion in I-Lan County, Taiwan (in Chinese). I-Lan County Government, Taiwan, I-Lan City, Taiwan. Full text not available from this repository. Organisation. ...
... She is also co-editor of the eJournal Taiwan in Comparative Perspective. Scott Simon has live... more ... She is also co-editor of the eJournal Taiwan in Comparative Perspective. Scott Simon has lived and done research in Taiwan for seven years. ... xiv Contributors of field research in Tainan, isTanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture (Westview Press, 2005). ...
This chapter examines the issue of injustice in a Confucian society in Northeast Asia. It uses ex... more This chapter examines the issue of injustice in a Confucian society in Northeast Asia. It uses examples from the White Terror in Taiwan, focusing on three levels at which the demand for justice has been articulated, both during and after the period of the terror: firstly, at the level of the state through political calculation and bureaucratic procedures; secondly, at the level of local culture and through the idioms of religion; and finally, at the level of global civil society. These three levels do not constitute a unified demand for justice nor, indeed, do they offer a coherent response to the problem of injustice. Instead, they reveal fractures and discontinuities through which ideas of justice and injustice are refracted. I consider the Luku1 incident of 1952–53 and the Kaohsiung incident of 1979, which respectively mark the beginning and the end of the Terror. I conducted my field research on Luku, including interviews with surviving victims and their family members, between 2004 and 2005.
This edited volume explores a Cold War topic, ‘cross-Strait relations’ - reterring to relations b... more This edited volume explores a Cold War topic, ‘cross-Strait relations’ - reterring to relations between Taiwan/the Republic of China (ROC) and mainland China/the People’s Republic of China (PRC) — but in a new context: ‘in an era of technological change’. Such a topic implies a paradox: that in an era of intense or even ‘hot’ technological change, characterized in part by the growth of global digital communication networks, cross-Strait relations are still defined by ‘cold’ networks, with little sign of a thaw in sight. On either side of the Strait, time is not just standing still, but has actually become repetitive. We are by now familiar with a regular pattern since 1993, a once-in-a-decade transfer of leadership of the PRC, and since 1996, presidential elections in Taiwan once every four years, it is often in the context of such leadership changes that scholars interested in cross-Strait relations tend to explore the potential for change.
During 1952-1953 the village of Luku in Taiwan became the focus of a military campaign to uncover... more During 1952-1953 the village of Luku in Taiwan became the focus of a military campaign to uncover and arrest alleged ‘communists’, with the result that nearly all the adult male population were either executed or given long prison sentences. This paper considers how this ‘Luku Incident’ has been remembered, using the theoretical perspective of social memory. The paper provides an overview to what happened, and then examines how the incident was forgotten during the martial law period, which lasted until 1987. It then elaborates how the remembering of Luku has been created since then, and how the incident has been remembered in certain ways for specific purposes by different social groups representing different political interests. It is shown that the way the incident has been remembered has been directed more by short-term political calculation than by a regard for truth, justice or reconciliation.
Local religion in I-Lan County, Taiwan (in Chinese). Shih, Fang-Long and Yu, Chien (2003) Local r... more Local religion in I-Lan County, Taiwan (in Chinese). Shih, Fang-Long and Yu, Chien (2003) Local religion in I-Lan County, Taiwan (in Chinese). I-Lan County Government, Taiwan, I-Lan City, Taiwan. Full text not available from this repository. Organisation. ...
... She is also co-editor of the eJournal Taiwan in Comparative Perspective. Scott Simon has live... more ... She is also co-editor of the eJournal Taiwan in Comparative Perspective. Scott Simon has lived and done research in Taiwan for seven years. ... xiv Contributors of field research in Tainan, isTanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture (Westview Press, 2005). ...
This chapter examines the issue of injustice in a Confucian society in Northeast Asia. It uses ex... more This chapter examines the issue of injustice in a Confucian society in Northeast Asia. It uses examples from the White Terror in Taiwan, focusing on three levels at which the demand for justice has been articulated, both during and after the period of the terror: firstly, at the level of the state through political calculation and bureaucratic procedures; secondly, at the level of local culture and through the idioms of religion; and finally, at the level of global civil society. These three levels do not constitute a unified demand for justice nor, indeed, do they offer a coherent response to the problem of injustice. Instead, they reveal fractures and discontinuities through which ideas of justice and injustice are refracted. I consider the Luku1 incident of 1952–53 and the Kaohsiung incident of 1979, which respectively mark the beginning and the end of the Terror. I conducted my field research on Luku, including interviews with surviving victims and their family members, between 2004 and 2005.
This edited volume explores a Cold War topic, ‘cross-Strait relations’ - reterring to relations b... more This edited volume explores a Cold War topic, ‘cross-Strait relations’ - reterring to relations between Taiwan/the Republic of China (ROC) and mainland China/the People’s Republic of China (PRC) — but in a new context: ‘in an era of technological change’. Such a topic implies a paradox: that in an era of intense or even ‘hot’ technological change, characterized in part by the growth of global digital communication networks, cross-Strait relations are still defined by ‘cold’ networks, with little sign of a thaw in sight. On either side of the Strait, time is not just standing still, but has actually become repetitive. We are by now familiar with a regular pattern since 1993, a once-in-a-decade transfer of leadership of the PRC, and since 1996, presidential elections in Taiwan once every four years, it is often in the context of such leadership changes that scholars interested in cross-Strait relations tend to explore the potential for change.
During 1952-1953 the village of Luku in Taiwan became the focus of a military campaign to uncover... more During 1952-1953 the village of Luku in Taiwan became the focus of a military campaign to uncover and arrest alleged ‘communists’, with the result that nearly all the adult male population were either executed or given long prison sentences. This paper considers how this ‘Luku Incident’ has been remembered, using the theoretical perspective of social memory. The paper provides an overview to what happened, and then examines how the incident was forgotten during the martial law period, which lasted until 1987. It then elaborates how the remembering of Luku has been created since then, and how the incident has been remembered in certain ways for specific purposes by different social groups representing different political interests. It is shown that the way the incident has been remembered has been directed more by short-term political calculation than by a regard for truth, justice or reconciliation.
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