Table of Contents
The Heart of the Matter
Introduction to the 2018 Edition
Biography of George H. Kerr
Preface to the 1998 Edition
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
THE VIEW FROM WASHINGTON 1941–1945
I. The Cairo Declaration
II. “Island X”
THE CHINESE TAKE OVER
III. The Surrender on Formosa, 1945
IV. Americans in Uniform
V. A Government of Merchants
VI. Chen Yi’s “Necessary State Socialism”
VII. Unwelcome Witnesses
VIII. The UNRRA-CNRRA Story
CRISIS AND AFTERMATH
IX. The Formosans’ Story: A Year of Disenchantment
X. The Search for Recognition
XI. On the Eve of Disaster
XII. The February Incident, 1947
XIII. Town Meetings, American Style
XIV. The March Massacre
XV. The Aftermath
XVI. The “Reform Administration”
XVII. The Retreat to Formosa
FORMOSA BECOMES “FREE CHINA”
XVIII. Turning Point
XIX. Formosa’s “Republican Decade”
XX. Behind the Reform Facade
XXI. Two Chinas?
XXII. Free Formosa
Appendix I
Appendix II
Notes
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