The Island The Left Neglected
Through the instant postwar period, the Kuomintang administration on Taiwan was repressive and extremely corrupt compared with the preceding Japanese rule, major to neighborhood discontent. Anti-mainlander violence flared on 28 February 1947, prompted by an incident in which a cigarette seller was injured and a passerby was indiscriminately shot dead by Nationalist authorities. Throughout the ensuing crackdown by the KMT administration in what became recognized as the February 28 Incident, tens of thousands of men and women had been killed…