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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
Chiang Kai-shek rebuilt his régime on Formosa not through his military might alone. Rather, he succeeded through rallying a group of intellectuals who could help him consolidate his rule on Formosa, work on propaganda, attract foreign aid and organise military control.
* Shils, Edward, “The Intellectual in the Political Development of the New States,” World Politics, XII, No. 3, 04 1960.Google Scholar
1 The memorandum was quoted by two professors of the National Taiwan University. See Chi, Li, “Cultural Desert,”Google Scholar and Kang-peh, Shen, “Education in the past fifty years,” Tzu-yu Chung-kuo, XXI, No. 10, 11 1959.Google Scholar
2 Such as Mei Yi-ch'i, late Minister of Education, and George Yeh, the retired diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the fifties. Other more important names cannot be mentioned here, because they are still in active political service.
3 See Hsu's article in Tzu-yu Chung-kuo, XV, No. 9, 10 1956.Google Scholar
4 See, for instance, Chin-hu, Yang, “A Formosan View on the Construction of a Model Province of Formosa,”Google Scholaribid. XVIII, No. 11, June 1958; see also Chi-chen, Yang, “The Lessons that I learned from an unsuccessful election campaign for the Mayor-ship of Taichung,”Google Scholaribid. XVII, No. 12, December 1957.
5 A group of Formosan students wrote a series of articles but the suppression of the Free China Fortnightly allowed only two of them to be published; Shih Ts'ui, “The Problem of Academic Freedom in Formosa University” (see Tzu-yu Chung-kuo [Free China], XXII, 9, 05 1, 1960)Google Scholar, and P'an-hsin, , “The Voice in the Heart of the Youth in Formosa University”Google Scholar (ibid. XXIII, 1, July 1, 1960).
6 Contributions from older intellectuals to non-political matters are exceptionally few. Among the older mainlanders, I can mention only Chou Ch'i-tzu, a talented literary critic. Among the natives are Lan Yin-ting, a painter, and Chen Shao-hsing, a working sociologist.
7 The discussions on the cultural problem are mainly in the 1962 issues of Wen Hsing (Literary Star) (Taipei).
8 See the appendix on Formosa by Hsia, T. A. in Hsia, C. T.'s A History of Modern Chinese Fiction 1917–1957 (New Haven: Yale Un. Press, 1961).Google Scholar
