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  A Brief History of Taiwan
This incident, which could have become another February 28 Incident, nevertheless led to the peaceful and progressive birth of the first democracy in the Chinese world as changes at home and abroad forced the dangwai and government to compromise.
For the government, these incidents led to the largest crisis to face the KMT since the February 28 Incident, where the slightest slipup might spell doom for the government.
Clearly, with the Kaohsiung Incident, the KMT failed to achieve the same level of intimidation as it had with the 228 Incident, and the foundation of its authoritarian rule was facing wide-ranging collapse.
www.gio.gov.tw /taiwan-website/5-gp/history/tw09.html   (4562 words)

  
  Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung (高雄 pinyin gao1 xiong2) is the second largest city in Taiwan (population around 1.45m) with eleven districts, and the island's most significant port (the world's third largest container port after Hong Kong and Singapore).
Kaohsiung is the major port through which most of Taiwan's oil is imported which accounts for the large amount of heavy industry.
The famous-in-hindsight Kaohsiung Incident of December 1979 occurred in the city.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Kaohsiung.html   (349 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung City is further separated into eleven districts, each has a district office which handles day-to-day businesses between the Kaohsiung City government and its citizens.
Kaohsiung was upgraded to a municipality on July 1, 1979, by the Executive Yuan, which approved this proposal on November 19, 1978.
Kaohsiung City is also home to Taiwan's second largest airport, the Kaohsiung International Airport, which is located in the Siaogang District in southern Kaohsiung City.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kaohsiung   (1238 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Kaohsiung Incident
The Kaohsiung Incident was the result of pro-democracy demonstrations that occurred in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China to commemorate Human Rights Day[?] on December 10, 1979.
Several of the accused later became politicians after completion of their prison terms, while members of the defense team became leaders of the dang wai (Outside Party) movement.
Members of the defense team include Chen Shui-bian (President of the ROC), and Frank Hsieh[?] (Kaohsiung Mayor).
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ka/Kaohsiung_Incident   (264 words)

  
 James Soong
Soong was given the job of addressing the nation following the Carter administration's decision to switch diplomatic ties to the PRC on December 16, 1978 in which he gave a patriotic condemnation of the American position.
As director-general of the Government Information Office, he was accused by his critics of aggressive censorship, including excessive use of libel laws and prison sentences to silence critics, and involvement in the supression of the Kaohsiung Incident.
Some believe that the PFP's lack of experienced candidates in the December 2002 mayoral elections in Taipei and Kaohsiung (the PFP supported the KMT's candidates), and the PFP's poor performance the city council elections in those cities at the same time were major setbacks to Soong's chances of being the KMT-PFP candidate for president.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/Soong_Chu-yu.html   (1131 words)

  
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Incidentally, after moving to Taiwan, Kuomintang regime consistently refused to recognize Chinese Communist's People's Republic of China, and resolutely held fast that Republic of China (in Taiwan) was "the One and Only China", and Kuomintang regime was the "Legitimate Government of China".
Arrested as one of the "Kaohsiung Incident" leaders, he was under detention on the day of February 28, 1980, when at noontime, his mother, and two twin daughters were cruelly murdered at his home.
It was suspected that this incident served as a warning to Taiwanese critic abroad.
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 Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung County Council - Provides an overview of the area, map, district populations, and contact details.
Kaohsiung Software Park (e-Plaza) - e-Plaza located in Kaohsiung can attract the international famous company to enter this area for business, to reach the purpose of technology and international cooperation.
The Kaohsiung Incident of 1979 - Details the December 10th, 1979 clash between police and pro-democracy demonstrators.
www.website.to /kaohsiung   (374 words)

  
 Kaohsiung Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kaohsiung Incident (Chinese: 高雄事件), also known as the Formosa Incident (Chinese: 美麗島事件), was the result of pro-democracy demonstrations that occurred in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China to commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, 1979.
The incident publicized the oppressive tactics of the government in ruling Taiwan and the trial of eight leaders of the protest allowed a team of lawyers to publicly question the practices of torture used by the KMT to extract confessions.
Several of the accused in the Kaohsiung Incident later became politicians after completion of their prison terms, while members of the defense team became leaders of the Tangwai (Outside Party) movement and later the Democratic Progressive Party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaohsiung_Incident   (489 words)

  
 Informat.io on Taiwan Independence
The interpretation of historical events such as the 228 incident, the use of broadcast language and mother tongue education in schools, the official name and flag of the ROC, slogans in the army, orientation of maps all have been issues of concern to the present-day Taiwan independence movement.
The 228 incident in 1947 and the ensuing martial law policies which lasted until 1987 contributed to a so-called sense of White Terror on the island.
In 1979, the Kaohsiung Incident, occurred as the movement for democracy and independence intensified.
www.informat.io /?title=taiwan-independence   (2328 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The Kaohsiung Incident () also known as the Formosa Incident () was the result of pro-democracy demonstrations that occurred in Kaohsiung, Taiwan December 10, 1979.
In March/April 1980, the eight most prominent leaders "The Kaohsiung Eight" were tried in military court and were sentenced to terms ranging from 12 years to life imprisonment.
After the Kaohsiung incident, a decade of political struggle continued between the mainlander-controlled KMT and the other political parties.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Kaohsiung_Incident   (810 words)

  
 The Kaohsiung Incident of 1979
The importance of the incident is in the fact that it galvanized both the Taiwanese people in Taiwan as well as the overseas Taiwanese community into political action.
The movement which grew out of the incident subsequently formed the basis for the present-day democratic opposition of the DPP and its overseas support network of Taiwanese organizations in North America and Europe.
Some of the former Kaohsiung prisoners discussed their treatment in prison for the first time ten years after the Kaohsiung Incident in interviews with The Journalist and Freedom Era.
www.taiwandc.org /hst-1979.htm   (2291 words)

  
 Kaohsiung Summary
Kaohsiung City (Traditional Chinese:高雄市, TongYong PinYin: GaoSyóng, Hanyu Pinyin: Gāoxióng, POJ: Ko-hiông; coordinates 22°38'N, 120°16'E) is the second largest city on Taiwan.
Kaohsiung City is administered directly by the central government of the Republic of China.
In 2004, Kaohsiung City Government, joining with Siemens AG, built a two-station circle route in Central Park in order to demonstrate the feasibility of building a light rail system in Kaohsiung City and alleviate some residents' concerns of light rail's negative impacts such as noise and traffic.
www.bookrags.com /Kaohsiung   (1366 words)

  
 Liberal International - Freedom Prize for Chen Shui-pien
In February 1980 Mr Chen was invited to join the team of defense attorneys for the arrested activists in the 'Kaohsiung incident'.
The Kaohsiung incident of December 1979 galvanized the Taiwanese on the island and overseas into political action.
The opposition started to question the Kuomintang's claim to represent all of China and that Taiwan is a part of China and they began to work towards ending the 40 year old martial law.
members.tripod.com /~Tw_De/html/li.htm   (322 words)

  
 THS
One hundred seventy of these documents dedicated to the Kaohsiung incident were displayed at a Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall exhibition that ended in mid-March.
The "Formosa Incident," also known as the Kaohsiung Incident, was a key event in the progress of democratization in Taiwan, and soon the official files related to this incident will be made public.
At the same time as a memorial event to mark the 56th anniversary of the 228 Incident was underway at Taipei's 228 Peace Park, KMT Chairman Lien Chan and PFP Chairman James Soong were toasting each other's success at the Taipei Ambassador Hotel in their joint campaign for next year's presidential election.
www.geocities.com /taiwanhistoricalsociety/march.html   (3941 words)

  
 International Assessment and Strategy Center > Research > The 2006 Mayoral Elections in Taipei and Kaohsiung
Chen was one of the prominent dissidents arrested after the Kaohsiung Incident in 1979, a demonstration broken up by police under the then martial-law government of Taiwan, and was jailed for six years.
Huang Jun-ying was born in 1941 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Besides, several Kaohsiung legislators of the People First Party (PFP) are also member of Huang’s campaign committee, as a symbol that Huang is the single "pan-blu"e candidate in Kaohsiung, contrasting with the split pan-blue force in Taipei or Huang’s divided pan-green adversary in Kaohsiung.
www.strategycenter.net /research/pubID.129/pub_detail.asp   (2063 words)

  
 bourdieu_boy: State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle
The Chungli Incident is the first of a series of political and cultural moments of opposition in which Gold anticipates the end of the state-society bargain.
The others he discusses are the nativist literature movement in the late 1970s, the Kaohsiung Incident in December 1979, the subsequent murders of members of Lin Yi-hsiung’s family in February 1980 and Henry Liu in 1984, and the probable murder of Chen Wen-cheng in 1981.
From 2-28 to the Chungli and Kaohsiung Incidents, violence represents the most extreme form of political contestation, when symbols of state power, such as the police station in Chungli were destroyed, or (much more frequently) activists who had been resisting the state were imprisoned or killed.
bourdieu-boy.livejournal.com /20933.html   (3039 words)

  
 Commanding Heights : Taiwan | on PBS
Tensions erupt in the February 28 Incident of 1947, as leading students, lawyers, and doctors are rounded up and executed.
Heightened internal security leads to the Kaohsiung Incident, a brutal repression of human rights marches that sparks an underground opposition party.
The first EPZ is built in 1966 in Kaohsiung, and within two years it generates annual exports of 7.2 million U.S. dollars.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/tw/tw_full.html   (3297 words)

  
 Jerome F. Keating's writings
While Lin Yi-hsiung was being held in jail by the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT) for his involvement in the Kaohsiung Incident (December 10, 1979), his two twin daughters aged seven and his mother were brutally stabbed to death in their Taipei home on February 28, 1980.
In hindsight, how the Kaohsiung Incident with its brutal crackdown and trials became the turning point of Taiwan's democracy movement is well known but put yourself in the shoes of the participants in the days immediately following December 10.
Immediately after the confrontation and crackdown in Kaohsiung, Lin was back with his family in his Taipei home while in the apartment above were Arrigo and Shih as well as Chen Chu (then head of the Kaohsiung Office of Meilidao) and Lu (Annette) Hsiu-lien, all of whom had come up from Kaohsiung.
zen.sandiego.edu /Jerome/1141614149/index_html   (1432 words)

  
 Lower Love River - Kaohsiung Museum of History
The Kaohsiung Museum of History, standing beside Love River on Chung Cheng 4th Road in Yen Cheng District, is the first history museum planned and set up by a local government in Taiwan.
Accordingly the museum focuses on the history of Kaohsiung, though it also displays collections from other regions of Taiwan and, in particular, from the National Palace Museum.
After the restoration of Taiwan to China in 1947, the building became the office of the Kaohsiung City Government, witnessing key episodes in the harsh repression of 1948, the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident and the subsequent democracy movement.
www.loveriver.info /05enstory/endown_08.htm   (386 words)

  
 Stephen Hou's Website - Taiwan - History
Following the 2-28 incident, many Taiwanese began calling for independence, which was technically an act of sedition.
The largest opposition rally against the KMT regime was the Kaohsiung Incident of 1979.
Dozens of people demonstrating in Kaohsiung were arrested for criticizing the government.
members.tripod.com /~stehou/taiwan/history.html   (389 words)

  
 Presbyterian Church in Taiwan
The 1979 Kaohsiung Incident was an example of a government ploy to frame opponents of the KMT.The staff of Formosa, a political magazine, planned to hold a peace rally in Kaohsiung on December 10, 1979, International Human Rights Day.
The KMT used the Kaohsiung Incident as an excuse to arrest Rev. C.M.
A military court tried the Kaohsiung Ten for violating "the seventh provision of the first item under the fourth clause of the regulations governing crimes of rebellions, which deals with crimes of hiding rebels," and sentenced them all to prison.
www.sino-platonic.org /abstracts/spp092_taiwan_presbyterian.html   (2458 words)

  
 Kaohsiung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kaohsiung City (Chinese: 高雄市; Hanyu Pinyin: Gāoxióng; Tongyong Pinyin: Gaosyóng, POJ: Ko-hiông; coordinates 22°38'N, 120°16'E; old name Takow) is a city located in southern Taiwan.
Kaohsiung City is also the second largest city in
The city is further separated into eleven districts, each with a district office that handles day-to-day businesses between the Kaohsiung City government and its citizens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaohsiung   (1305 words)

  
 Taiwan Matters!
Although the nearby port city of Kaohsiung is a stronghold of the Democratic Progressive Party, Chin Jin votes reliably for the Nationalist Party, local officials said, because its fishermen depend on the state for access to fishing grounds.
That is in part the result of rampant vote buying, a chronic problem in Kaohsiung, since the DPP has slowly but surely been gaining ground on the KMT at the local level.
By the time Huang lost the mayoral election in Kaohsiung this past Saturday by 1,114 votes, the KMT propaganda machine was already spinning in high gear and making obnoxious noises, but Huang and Ma weren't the only ones making such noises.
taiwanmatters.blogspot.com   (10981 words)

  
 John Minns and Robert Tierney | The Labour Movement in Taiwan | Labour History, 85 | The History Cooperative
On 27 February 1947, an incident began which illustrated the isolation of the KMT state from the mass of Taiwanese.
The 2–28 incident left the Taiwanese population in a position of total powerlessness in relation to the state which had been imposed on them.
The riot was largely a consequence of the overcrowded accommodation facilities; the failure of the subcontractors to provide separate accommodation for the different nationalities; the lack of competent translators (1 for every 200 residents); the general contractor's and subcontractors' speed-up pressures, bullying styles of management and occupational health and safety transgressions.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/85/minns.html   (13796 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives
Shih Ming-teh, former chairman of the DPP, warms to the occasion during yesterday's opening ceremony of the exhibition of events relating to the Kaohsiung Incident.
The Kaohsiung Incident occurred on Dec. 10, 1979, during an anti-government parade organized by the Formosa magazine (美麗島雜誌) -- a front for a broad alliance of the so-called tang wai (黨外, "outside the party") activists -- which coincided with International Human Rights Day.
Pointing out that the Kaohsiung Incident had once been referred to as a "violent" event, Ma said it could be time for a reassessment of the event's significance.
www.taipeitimes.com /news/1999/12/05/story/0000013634   (628 words)

  
 Jerome F. Keating's writings
A Japanese prisoner hellship, the Enoura Maru was bound for Tokyo with a cargo of American Prisoners of War (POWs) from the Philippines.
This past January 9th, 2005, the 60th anniversary date, 40 to 50 gathered at Kaohsiung Harbor for a remembrance service and the laying of two wreaths on the waters.
Opening remarks were given by Michael Hurst, Director of the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society; Terry Crutchfield of Kaohsiung read the poem “The Man We Never Knew.” Robert W. Forden, head of the Kaohsiung branch of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), read a special message from AIT.
zen.sandiego.edu /Jerome/1106406987/index_html   (658 words)

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