Why am I telling these stories? This year marks 38 years since the end of martial law. Taiwan has finally lived longer after dictatorship than under it.
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Albert Wu
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Albert Wu
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Historian. With @kuokuomich, a newsletter: https://t.co/Gn7ihq1pYC
Taipei, Taiwan Beigetreten Mart 2009
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Liu Yaoting was executed in 1954, leaving behind his wife and infant twin daughters. Decades later, his daughter Liu Meini tells their story in Letters That Could Not Be Delivered—a book about love, loss, and the scars of Taiwan’s White Terror. twreporter.org/a/bookreview-u…
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Earlier I shared the story of the “TL branch”—a group accused of sedition during Taiwan’s White Terror in the early 1950s. What more do we know about them?
For context, see here: x.com/albertowu/stat…
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After almost 11 months in prison, In September 1953, the Taiwan Provincial Security Command sentenced him to death, accusing him of “intending to overthrow the government by illegal means.” His property was confiscated. A small allowance was left to his family.
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Some blurbs (2): "a true paradigm shift—one that this and future generations of historians must contend with. The gauntlet is thrown down not only to scholars of Latin America but to all who study tyranny, democracy, and the early modern world"
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In our latest post, w/ @kuokuomich we show how arguments that cast Taiwan as a "destabilizer" are troubling and flatly untrue. Taiwan isn't the one bending the world order. Taiwan's story deserves to be seen in its own right, not as a scapegoat. ampleroad.substack.com/p/a-sense-of-d…
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In December 2018, the Transitional Justice Commission formally overturned Wei’s conviction and sentence.
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