Ep. 322 | The History of Taiwan (Part 13)
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this Part 13 installment, in what I can tell you now, will be a 15-Part series, we look at some of the main events from 1977-1987. This was the final decade in the life of Chiang Ching-Kuo. He ended martial law and set Taiwan on the course that we all recognize today. In this episode, we'll look at the Zhongli Incident, the rise of Xu Xinliang 许信良 and a more emboldened political opposition, the normalization of relations between the US and PRC, and the subsequent Taiwan Relations Act. Other things mentioned in Part 13 include the founding of the Hsinchu Science Park and the birth of TSMC, the semiconductor company so often mentioned in the news. We'll finish off with the killing of dissident writer Henry Liu (江南) in Daly City, California. The final two episodes will focus on more recent events.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back my friends to the series that seems to have no end. |
| 0:04.0 | This is now officially the longest series in China history podcast history, |
| 0:08.7 | edging out the Xinjiang series from 2020. |
| 0:13.2 | Well, this is Laosal Montgomery, as usual, |
| 0:15.8 | and this time we're going to look at some of the major events in Taiwan history |
| 0:20.4 | in the post-Jong Kai Shaq era. |
| 0:23.0 | Now Jinguo was in charge. |
| 0:25.0 | As I mentioned at part 12, he wasn't president, not yet, |
| 0:28.8 | but he's still called all the shots, |
| 0:30.8 | and ROC president C.K. Yen deferred to him. |
| 0:34.9 | In this episode, I have to mention at the outset, |
| 0:37.8 | as I begin to introduce the pro-democracy movement |
| 0:41.7 | and the Dong Wai movement and the formation |
| 0:44.5 | of the Democratic Progressive Party. |
| 0:46.6 | There are a lot of names that are going to come up, |
| 0:49.1 | and I haven't mentioned this in a while, |
| 0:50.8 | but if you go to my website at teacup.media, |
| 0:54.2 | you'll see there's always a handy list |
| 0:56.3 | of all the Chinese names and terms used in this episode, |
| 1:00.8 | the pinion, Chinese, and English. |
| 1:03.2 | So feel free to reference that if you get overwhelmed. |
| 1:07.3 | Any one of a certain age who lives in Taiwan |
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