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Formosa Calling : An Eyewitness Account of the February 28th, 1947 Incident by Allan J. Shackleton (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCamphor Press

ISBN-101910736449

ISBN-139781910736449

eBay Product ID (ePID)238754382

Product Key Features

Book TitleFormosa Calling : an Eyewitness Account of the February 28th, 1947 Incident

LanguageEnglish

TopicAsia / China

Publication Year2017

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorAllan J. Shackleton

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight5.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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SynopsisRecently occupied by the Nationalist Chinese regime, Taiwan in early 1947 was a powder keg. Anger at the corrupt misrule of the new government erupted into protests and riots, which quickly became an island-wide uprising. The response from the Nationalists was brutal and overwhelming - a weeks-long massacre in which local leaders and intellectuals were systematically slaughtered. Estimates of the dead range from ten thousand to thirty thousand. The killings became known as the "228 Massacre", the "228 Incident", or simply "228", after the date of the first riots (February 28). Allan J. Shackleton was a New Zealand officer with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration assigned to in Taiwan at the time. His eyewitness account of the massacre is an important document for understanding modern Taiwan's founding tragedy. Shackleton tried for years to get it published, but it was deemed too politically sensitive during the Cold War, when "Free China" was an ally of the Western world. Finally, after Taiwan's first democratic presidential election, Shackleton's son was approached by a publisher and the first edition appeared in 1998, fifty years after it was written. This Camphor Press edition has been reset and carries a number of minor corrections to the 1998 edition., Recently occupied by the Nationalist Chinese regime, Taiwan in early 1947 was a powder keg. Anger at the corrupt misrule of the new government erupted into protests and riots, which quickly became an island-wide uprising. The response from the Nationalists was brutal and overwhelming - a weeks-long massacre in which local leaders and intellectuals were systematically slaughtered. Estimates of the dead range from ten thousand to thirty thousand. The killings became known as the "228 Massacre," the "228 Incident," or simply "228," after the date of the first riots (February 28). Allan J. Shackleton was a New Zealand officer with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration assigned to in Taiwan at the time. His eyewitness account of the massacre is an important document for understanding modern Taiwan's founding tragedy. Shackleton tried for years to get it published, but it was deemed too politically sensitive during the Cold War, when "Free China" was an ally of the Western world. Finally, after Taiwan's first democratic presidential election, Shackleton's son was approached by a publisher and the first edition appeared in 1998, fifty years after it was written. This Camphor Press edition has been reset and carries a number of minor corrections to the 1998 edition., A first-hand account of the "228 Incident," a massacre in which somewhere between ten thousand and thirty thousand local leaders and intellectuals in Taiwan were systematically slaughtered by the Nationalist Chinese regime.