Suchergebnisse

Part 1. The Kaohsiung Incident : A Tragedy of Errors? -- The Dangwai Setting -- The Kaohsiung Incident, the Arrests, the Indictment and the Murder of Lin I-hsiung's Family -- The Military Trial of the Eight Key Defendants -- The Other Important Trials -- How the Kaohsiung Incident Contributed to Taiwan's Democratic Movement -- Part 2. Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard -- Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard -- Rip Van Winkle Returns to Taiwan -- Reconsidering the Lin Family Murder Case after 35 Years

Taiwan is only one of four consolidated Asian democracies. Democratizing Taiwan provides the most comprehensive analysis of Taiwan's peaceful democratization including the past authoritarian experience, leadership both within and outside government, popular protest and elections, and constitutional interpretation and amendments.

Taiwan is only one of four consolidated Asian democracies. Democratizing Taiwan provides the most comprehensive analysis of Taiwan's peaceful democratization including the past authoritarian experience, leadership both within and outside government, popular protest and elections, and constitutional interpretation and amendments.

Unlike other European countries, Holland grew as perhaps the world's first democracy with great wealth and relative egalitarianism, meritocracy rather than an aristocracy, and an absence of true monarchy. Holland's great wealth also led to a worldwide colonial empire that competed with the other great European colonial empires. It was the Dutch who conquered Taiwan and brought the island under the first of six foreign colonial rulers. Like other colonial rulers around the world, the Dutch were racist, abused human rights, and indulged in slavery. Thus, although atypical at home, the Dutch in ruling their colonies, including Taiwan, were typical of colonial governments around the world.