taiwan

Although some say the Taiwanese have been relieved to be rid of the Japanese, other folks retain that most currently grown accustomed to the stability presented by the Japanese. In any event, any goodwill towards their Chinese ‘liberators’ would be short-lived. Virtually straight away following the destruction of Japan, civil war broke out on the mainland in between the Kuomintang (led by Chiang Kai-shek) and Chairman Mao’s communist forces. Forced into civil war, Chiang sent an unskillful common named Chen Yi to govern Taiwan Chen Yi and his forces plundered Taiwanese houses and shops, sending anything of worth back to...