Letters from Taiwan

Remembering Taiwan’s Tragic Past

The Taipei 228 Memorial Museum commemorates the 228 Massacre and provides a solid introduction to the worst mass killing in Taiwan’s modern history. However, the museum fails to fully conceptualize the significance of the event and how it continues to divide contemporary Taiwan

By Ketty W. Chen / Contributing reporter

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Today is 2-28

Let us take a moment to remember on the 66th Anniversary of the massacre and bloody repression of Taiwanese on the orders of General Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China.

To this day, Taiwan remains a Chinese colonial acquisition run by a corrupt party-state oligarchy in exile. Taiwan democratised but has yet to free itself from the shackles of occupation or to achieve transitional justice.

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Mass Ache Err: 勿忘, never forget.

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Letters from Taiwan is an online diary of what engages and interests me about Taiwan as well as a record of my journeys and discoveries in the region. It is an extended letter of admiration and gratitude to this beautiful country that has so hospitably been my home for over a decade.

Originally from the UK, I arrived in 2000 as a teacher and now work full time as a professional in the field of medical devices.

This blog does take an active, passionate and often partisan interest in Taiwan's current affairs, with particular emphasis on its history, politics and economy. I believe that Taiwan is geographically and politically situated at an important juncture of global hegemonic struggle.

The very identity of the nation and the peoples living here, and the ongoing contest over the definition and meaning of those identities is a field study in contemporary nationalism and nation building. It is because this contest is far from resolved that I find the word 'contingent' the most suitable current descriptor.

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