Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/12/28
By: Wen Kuei-hsiang and Matthew Mazzetta

Taipei, Dec. 28 (CNA) Taiwan's Academia Historica will publish a compilation of historical materials related to late democracy activist Chen Wen-chen (陳文成), including documents that link Chen's case to the Kaohsiung Incident, the academy's curator told CNA.

The records, for which historians previously had to apply for access, will be available starting Sunday in book form as well as digitally, said curator Chen Yi-shen (陳儀深).

The academy's role as presidential record-keeper gave it a particular responsibility to publish the materials, which include interrogation transcripts and briefings that were provided to former President Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), Chen Yi-shen said.

One of the records' most important functions, he said, will be to strengthen the historical connection between Chen Wen-chen's mysterious 1981 death and the government's crackdown on the Kaohsiung-based political journal "Formosa Magazine" two years earlier in what came to be known as the Kaohsiung Incident.    [FULL  STORY]