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 and
White Terror and offers a valuable matrix of comparison for
studying the portrayal of atrocity in a specific locale.
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