NEW PERSPECTIVE: Declassified documents detail officials’ concerns that Chiang Kai-shek would dispatch more troops after the massacre, leading to further sanctioned bloodshed
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 23, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Declassified historical files retrieved from the archives of the US, Australia and the UN
A newly published book, International View of the 228 Incident, is pictured at a book launch party at Academia Historica in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
would help to shed new light on the 228 Incident, historians said yesterday at the launch at the Academia Historica in Taipei of a book about the Incident.
International View of the 228 Incident (解密‧國際檔案的二二八事件) is an anthology of documents from the US National Archives and Records Administration, the National Archives of Australia and the UN Archives and Records Management Section seen last year at the request of the Kaohsiung Museum of History.
The museum requested that historians be allowed to access documents on post-World War II Taiwan, including international coverage of the Incident, Academia Historica said.
“The greatest impact the 228 Incident had on post-World War II Taiwan was that it sparked the Taiwanese independence movement,” said historian Su Yao-tsung (蘇瑤崇), a professor at Providence University, citing documents sourced from the US.
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