Comments on: Gaza : Taiwan of the Middle East? http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/ A different look at Chinese cultures - China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:38:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cat http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82207 cat Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:26:14 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82207 Taiwan suffered de-facto dictatorship for over 30 years from an army and a leader they had little to do with before that. _______________________ This is correct, though it must be made clear that the dictatorship is not one of the mainland Chinese but exactly CKS's. Many a protestor was the victim of this CKS dictatorship, including not only Taiwanese but also people from mainland. Taiwan suffered de-facto dictatorship for over 30 years from an army and a leader they had little to do with before that.
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This is correct, though it must be made clear that the dictatorship is not one of the mainland Chinese but exactly CKS’s. Many a protestor was the victim of this CKS dictatorship, including not only Taiwanese but also people from mainland.

]]> By: cat http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82206 cat Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:10:45 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82206 For sure CKS is a dictator either in mainland or in Taiwan. In his eyes there were only two enemies: the Japanese imperialists and the Communists, and he had already made a lot of 228-like events and killed thousands of Chinese in mainland China when he seperated with the CCP in the 1920s. What CKS standed for and defended was not those coming from mainland to Taiwan, but himself, or, widely speaking, the class of landlords and capitalists he belonged to (I have to use these Marxist terms to describe them although I am not a Marxist). Anyone, either in mainland China or in Taiwan, that would rebel against him would be suppressed. As a matter of fact, in 228 not only natives of Taiwan but also quite a few people from mainland were suppressed, arrested or killed, if only they were suspected to be a Communist. Both people from mainland and Taiwan natives are sufferers in this event, but unfortunately the former is almost forgotten. For sure CKS is a dictator either in mainland or in Taiwan. In his eyes there were only two enemies: the Japanese imperialists and the Communists, and he had already made a lot of 228-like events and killed thousands of Chinese in mainland China when he seperated with the CCP in the 1920s. What CKS standed for and defended was not those coming from mainland to Taiwan, but himself, or, widely speaking, the class of landlords and capitalists he belonged to (I have to use these Marxist terms to describe them although I am not a Marxist). Anyone, either in mainland China or in Taiwan, that would rebel against him would be suppressed. As a matter of fact, in 228 not only natives of Taiwan but also quite a few people from mainland were suppressed, arrested or killed, if only they were suspected to be a Communist. Both people from mainland and Taiwan natives are sufferers in this event, but unfortunately the former is almost forgotten.

]]> By: fiLi http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82192 fiLi Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:37:58 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82192 cat - I don't believe this case has been exaggerated and over exploited, more than the Beijing 1989 and other government-civilian clashes within the region. The 228, in my view, has been devastating in that the Taiwanese were expecting to be freed from the Japanese rather than crushed by an even stronger dictator. Who CKS was fighting, why and what he brought with him from mainland is of no importance to Taiwan and the Taiwanese, as the shock and terror of the Taiwanese grew deep. Taiwan suffered de-facto dictatorship for over 30 years from an army and a leader they had little to do with before that. It's in the essence of the Taiwanese tragedy. cat – I don’t believe this case has been exaggerated and over exploited, more than the Beijing 1989 and other government-civilian clashes within the region. The 228, in my view, has been devastating in that the Taiwanese were expecting to be freed from the Japanese rather than crushed by an even stronger dictator. Who CKS was fighting, why and what he brought with him from mainland is of no importance to Taiwan and the Taiwanese, as the shock and terror of the Taiwanese grew deep. Taiwan suffered de-facto dictatorship for over 30 years from an army and a leader they had little to do with before that. It’s in the essence of the Taiwanese tragedy.

]]> By: cat http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82049 cat Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:31:21 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82049 I do not want to make any judgement, not to say a sound one. I was just trying to tell a piece of truth to my knowledge. That's all. I do not want to make any judgement, not to say a sound one. I was just trying to tell a piece of truth to my knowledge. That’s all.

]]> By: vk http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82048 vk Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:19:43 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82048 To cat, Don't want to be offensive, yet I believe that the last post is made to respond the inferential fallacy in the last sentence of your comment, after carefully reading. :) To cat,
Don’t want to be offensive, yet I believe that the last post is made to respond the inferential fallacy in the last sentence of your comment, after carefully reading.
:)

]]> By: cat http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82045 cat Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:45:55 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2008/08/15/gaza-taiwan-middle-east/#comment-82045 well, please carefully review my last post again. I did not negate the profound social background of the 228 event, I was only describing Chiang KS's subjective cause in that event. well, please carefully review my last post again.
I did not negate the profound social background of the 228 event, I was only describing Chiang KS’s subjective cause in that event.

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