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...genius at not sinking. His enemies were legion: militarists, who resented his journalistic barbs at their incompetence; party rivals, who found him too zealous a supporter of the united front with the Kuomintang nationalists; landlords, who hated his pro-peasant rhetoric and activism; Chiang Kai-shek, who attacked his rural strongholds with relentless tenacity; the Japanese, who tried to smash his northern base; the U.S., after the Chinese entered the Korean War; the Soviet Union, when he attacked Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist policies. Mao was equally unsinkable in the turmoil--much of which he personally instigated--that marked the last...
...success fanned Luce's idealistic passions. His journalistic judgment could be clouded at times by his own commitments. On the issues and people he cared most about--China, American foreign policy, the Republican Party, Chiang Kai-shek, Winston Churchill, Wendell Willkie--he personally directed coverage at critical times with a feverish and occasionally suffocating intensity. And on those subjects his magazines could be startlingly biased, even polemical. On most issues, however, Luce was relatively open-minded, deferential to his editors, receptive to many conflicting views, eager to attract the talents of gifted writers whatever their ideologies. His own politics were...
...Kill them all, keep it secret." --Chiang Kai-shek, in response to Taiwanese protesters...
Despite this historic isolation from China, when Chiang Kai-shek first sent troops to Taiwan after World War II, the Taiwanese initially welcomed them, thinking that the Chinese would rule more fairly than the Japanese. 2-28 shattered these hopes. Soon after the massacre, martial law and an extensive secret police were instated for the next 40 years. Ironically, 2-28 had the important effect of cementing the Taiwanese identity--the people of Taiwan wanted little to do with their Chinese oppressors, and, for the first time, the Taiwanese strongly felt that they were indeed a distinct society and culture...
...after World War II). In addition, the government targeted many scholars, students, lawyers, doctors and local leaders in an effort to purge Taiwan of all intellectuals who even hinted at opposing the Nationalists. A watershed event in both Taiwanese and world history, 2-28 was thoroughly covered-up by Chiang's government, and it is almost never mentioned in history textbooks...