FOW036 – Dealing With A Difficult Past: Transitional Justice In Taiwan (with Chris Horton) [EN]

Introduction

• Nikkei Asian Review

After 1945 02:24

• Chiang Kai-shek
• February 28 Massacre
• Hokkien dialect („Taiwanese language“)
• Chen Yi: governor of Taiwan province after WWII
• White Terror: martial law in Taiwan from 1949 to 1987

After Martial Law 14:00

• Chiang Ching-kuo: Chiang Kai-shek’s son and successor as president
• Tangwai movement
• Lee Teng-hui: president from 1988 to 2000
• Hakka people
• Wild Lily: student protests in 1990
• Sunflower movement
• FOW027 – Taiwan’s New Labour Law & Taiwanese Politics

After 1990 25:14

• Chen Shui-bian: president from 2000 to 2008
• 228 Peace Memorial Park
• Freedom Square
• Ma Ying-jeou: president from 2008 to 2016

Transitional Justice after 2015 33:15

• Tsai Ing-wen: president since 2016
• Transitional Justice Commission

Teaching Taiwan’s history 49:42

• famous Tang poets: Du Fu, Li Bai
• Cheng Nan-jung: advocated freedom of speech; self-immolation in 1989

Justice and closure 1:00:42

• Taiwan Families Receive Goodbye Letters Decades After Executions

Reading material 1:06:23

• Chris Horton on Twitter
• Maggie Lewis on Twitter
• Taiwan Sentinel
• New Bloom Magazine
• The Diplomat Who Quit the Trump Administration

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