American Justice in Taiwan : The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy /
On May 23, 1957, US Army Sergeant Robert Reynolds was acquitted of murdering Chinese officer Liu Ziran in Taiwan. Reynolds did not deny shooting Liu but claimed self-defense. Reynolds's acquittal sparked a series of riots across Taiwan. In 'American Justice in Taiwan' author Stephen G...
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A shooting on grass mountain
- Islands against the Red tide
- Advice and dissent
- Little America on Taiwan
- A law unto themselves
- A tale of two criminal investigations
- The court-martial of sergeant Robert Reynolds
- Justice of a different culture
- Black Friday
- Accusations
- To the Chinese heart of the matter
- Repercusssions
- Defending the American bases of hegemony
- Status Quo.