Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989

Defections from the People's Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of Republican China in Taiwan (RoC). Morris looks at what the defectors knew about the RoC before they arrived, and how they dealt with the reality.

Autorentext

Andrew D. Morris is Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and studies the modern histories of Taiwan and China. He is the author of Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan (University of California Press, 2010) and Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China (University of California Press, 2004). He edited the volume Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and Its Contested Legacy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), and co-edited the volume The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2004, with David K. Jordan and Marc L. Moskowitz).

Klappentext

Defections from the People's Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of Republican China in Taiwan (RoC). Morris looks at what the defectors knew about the RoC before they arrived, and how they dealt with the reality.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Historiography, 1950s Cold War Background in Taiwan 2. "Just Waiting for the Chance": PRC Defectors to Taiwan, 1960-1962 3. Chiang's Last Defectors, 1965-1966 4. PLA Air Force Commander Fan Yuanyan's 1977 Defection to Taiwan and the End of the Nationalist China Dream 5. Seize the Opportunity: Pilots and Pop Stars, 1982-83 6. "Hijacking Anti-Communism, 1983-1991: Righteous No More" 7. Conclusion and Epilogue: Free China and the Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors in History