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Formosa Betrayed is the authoritative account of the Kuomintang takeover of Taiwan in 1945 and the 1947 "228 Incident" in which tens of thousands of Taiwanese people – an entire generation of intellectuals and leaders – were massacred by the new government. Kerr was there, knew Taiwan well, and paints a compelling
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