Title: Seeking the Vanishing Idealism of Taiwan
Lecturer: LAN Bozhou (Chairman of Association of Peaceful Development between Mainland China and Taiwan)
Chairperson: LV Xinyu (Professor of Cornell-ECNU Center for Comparative Humanities)
Date: 1 pm, April 25th, 2016 (Monday)
Venue: Room 5103, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
The essence of the reign of White Terror is to force the offsprings of victims to side with the inflictors, by virtue of the long-term anti-communist domination, thereby to deflect the political belief. The result of white terror in the 1950s, Taiwan, thus, is to destroy the progressive thoughts in Taiwan, annihilate the social consciousness and social justice. The lecture is to historize the white terror in an attempt to supersede the historical tragedies of national separatism.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Lan Bozhou, born in 1960, Taiwan, is a famous journalist and novelist, and he is the first writer in Taiwan who revealed the reign of White Terror. He has published several novels and now is the Chairman of Association of Peaceful Development between Mainland China and Taiwan.