Disciplining Taiwan: The Kuomintang's Methods of Control during the White Terror Era (1947-1987)

規訓台灣－白色恐怖下國民黨對台灣的控制方法

Ketty W. Chen

《台灣國際研究季刊》 4卷4期 (2008/12) Pp. 185-210

摘要

本文主要目地是檢視及解釋爲什麼在國民黨五十年統治下幾乎沒有大型的群眾反抗或革命運動？及國民黨規訓和懲戒台灣人民的方法又是什麼？在國民黨威權統治下的白色恐怖時期，對台灣社會有所影響的羣眾運動似乎只有兩件。這篇文章引用傅科及米秋之政治理論，針對這種現象加以解釋與分析。本文發現國民黨政權可以成功的完全統治台灣人民與社會五十多年，是因爲國民黨政府使用傅科及米秋理論中的恐嚇、懲戒、教育、改變社會形勢，及重新打造台灣人的意識形態所達成的。

關鍵字

國民黨 ； 白色恐怖 ； 台灣 ； 傅科

並列摘要

During the White Terror Era in Taiwan, there were only two significant public uprisings that can be considered as disturbances to the reign of the Kuomintang. This article scrutinizes the much neglected theoretical question on Taiwan: how does the Kuomintang dominate the Taiwanese society for more than 50 years without any major coup or revolution attempts? What are the mechanisms of control exercised by the KMT after its retreat from China? This article argues that the theories of discipline, punishment and domination in Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish and Timothy Mitchell’s Colonizing Egypt serve as good elucidation to this important theoretical question and concludes that the success of the KMT domination in Taiwan was due to the party's capabilities to achieve the kinds of changes in society through coercion, education, restructuring the society and creating of a new ”identity” and character for the Taiwanese.

並列關鍵字

Taiwan ； Kuomintang KMT ； Democratic Progressive Party DPP ； White Terror ； democratization ； Michel Foucault

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