State-Building and the White Terror：he Causes of Political Persecution n the Early 1950s in Taiwan
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Su, Ching-Hsuan
Abstract
This dissertation is an attempt at an analysis of the causes of the political persecution in Taiwan in the early 1950s. Whereas some researches take the political persecution in Taiwan in the early 1950s to be the result of the Kuomintang (KMT) State-Building construction, I argue that this structural point of view is insufficient for explaining how the state apparatus causes the state violence and is in need of further explanations on the reasons why during the course of the execution of the state power a large number of innocent people suffer from political persecution. fter WWⅡ, the Communist Party of China (CPC), the revolutionary regime which by confronting KMT seeks to seize the absolute ruling power over China, establishes and develops a branch, the Taiwan Work Committee of the CPC (TWC), in order to overthrow KMT in Taiwan. As a result, by the time KMT successfully suppresses and eliminates the TWC, the State-Building construction by KMT has also come to its primary end. It should also be noted that the political elites and dissidents against KMT are also suppressed in the process of the State-Building construction.owever, besides the resisting forces such as the TWC and the political elites and dissidents, a lot of innocent people are persecuted by KMT as well, and the latter’s cases are called the “cases involving unjust, false and wrong charges.” I argue that due to the fact that the researches using “structure” as the ultimate explaining factor regard “state” as a unit, these researches therefore conclude that the “cases involving unjust, false and wrong charges” are the by-product of the KMT State-Building construction rather than try to explain them by further examination.aving the insufficiency of the structural explanation in mind, this dissertation aims to turn to the middle level for a more powerful explanation for the mass political persecution during the period.
Subjects
White Terror
Kuomintang(KMT)
State theory
State-Building
State violence
the Taiwan Work Committee of the CPC
Cases involving unjust, false and wrong charges
SDGs
Type
thesis
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