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Post by Blue on Sept 25, 2012 15:12:20 GMT
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Post by cloudlesszen on Jan 16, 2014 8:35:05 GMT
I know its been over a year since you posted these, so they don't show up anymore. But I have been living in Taiwan for a few years in 北港 and would be interested in seeing them if you still have them.
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Post by Blue on Jan 16, 2014 14:32:30 GMT
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Post by cloudlesszen on Jan 17, 2014 2:09:38 GMT
Nice, thanks for the tip about the xiao maker. Have you purchased any of his flutes before? I have been meaning to get xiao for quite awhile now, will have to check it out. That website was pretty cool. Interesting story about the riot as well.
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Post by Blue on Jan 17, 2014 15:16:02 GMT
Yep, more information about the US embassy riot in Taipei could be found here: taipics.com/american_embassy.phpThe riot revealed a complicated US-ROC relationship in the 1950's-1970's. The ROC based in Taiwan needed US assistance for survival. Chiang Ching-kuo was effectively the de-facto leader with his secret police working in full swing even though he wasn't the President until the death of his father in 1975. The non-US educated Chiang clan was pretty paranoid that the US wanted to replace them with a leader that had education in the US such as the Purdue University and Virginia Military Institute educated General Sun Li-jen. Chiang Ching-kuo spent considerable time in the Soviet Union and learned quite a lot on how to run a police state under the "Free China" moniker. Chiang Kai-shek belonged to the pretty corrupt Whampoa clique of officers. It was Sun Li-jen who made sure that the remnants of the Nationalist Army could be well trained and disciplined so that the ROC could continue to survive in Taiwan. Unfortunately Chiang clan had Sun Li-jen purged and placed in near perpetual house arrest. After placing General Sun under house arrest, the Chiang clan wanted to send a signal to the US not to mess with them even though strictly speaking, they relied on the US Seventh Fleet patrol of the Taiwan Straits for their survival. Hence the riots was one of the mediums that they sent this signal. (Digression: Sun Li-jen was a basketball star, so don't assume that it is Yao Ming and Jeremy Lin who originally demonstrated that Yellow Men Can Jump. He also brought a war elephant to Taiwan-- a veteran of the Burma campaign in World War II, that became the longest living elephant in captivity.) |
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Post by Blue on Jan 17, 2014 15:27:30 GMT
Had I written all of this roughly 30 years ago, I would have been sent to the gulag or suffered the fate of Henry Liu, who was gunned down in Daly City, California by mob members sent by the ROC intelligence because he wrote a pretty critical biography of Chiang Ching-kuo.
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Post by cloudlesszen on Jan 18, 2014 2:19:14 GMT
This is all pretty fascinating. I have to admit my knowledge of Taiwanese history during Chiang Ching Guo is pretty light. The whole thing about ROC intelligence killing Henry Liu is crazy. I guess because now the Taiwanese government seems so lethargic and inept its hard to believe back in the Cold War they were actually doing something...anything.
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