Monday Links

Rice is life.

Enjoy some links....

• Don't Miss: The DPP factions are Dead?. How the factions continue to affect the DPP
• Don't Miss: Maddog with his first post in nearly 5 years (don't do that again!), on the language of media in discussing the 2-28 massacre
• Don't Miss: Tumin at New Bloom on Transitional Justice, the Student Movement, 2-28
• Don't Miss: Good-bye independence from Chieh-ting Yeh.
• Don't Miss: The Tiger that lost its roar: what's wrong with Taiwan's economy. It's quite conventional, I'll have more to say in the next few days on this piece.
• Excellent letter in the Taipei Times discussing the KMT's asset lies.
• Pursuit of the truth of the 2-28 Massacre will bring unity: Tsai
• Article on the Flier incident at NCCU in which the military officer tore down 2-28 fliers
• March 29, 1947, NYT article on the 2-28 massacre and subsequent killings
• Statues of dictator and mass murderer Chiang Kai-shek found defaced
• Stratfor piece on the 2-28 killings and their subsequent political effects
• Review of Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan
• Foxconn to buy Sharp for $6B
• A Pail of Oysters, long-banned, is reviewed in the Taipei Times. Camphor Press is re-issuing it, and just sent me a copy for review. Jon Benda, longtime resident and lit prof, discusses it here.
• President Ma likes China's use of "Taiwan Constitution"
• National Interest: Japan the next big player in the Taiwan Strait?
• Why do we permit Chinese firms to acquire US technology firms?

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