National Taiwan University Philosophy Department Incident

Source: Three Stages of the Philosophy Department Incident
From: Vigilance and Caution — Forty Years After the NTU Philosophy Department Incident
Date: December 2003

The NTU Philosophy Department Incident refers to a series of purges carried out between December 1972 and June 1975 at National Taiwan University, in the name of “anti-communism,” targeting liberal Chinese scholars in the university’s philosophy department. The incident resulted in the dismissal of philosophy faculty including Chao Tien-i, Chen Ku-ying, Wang Hsiao-po, Yang Fei-hua, Hu Chi-chun, Li Jih-chang, Chen Ming-yu, Liang Chen-sheng, Huang Tien-cheng, Kuo Shih-yu, Chung Yu-lien, Huang Ching-ming, and American visiting professor John Makeham (Marc Rubinstein), and led to a one-year suspension of graduate admissions in the NTU philosophy graduate program.NTU Graduate Institute of Philosophy suspension-of-admissions announcement (source: Central Daily News)

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• NTU Philosophy Department Incident (Wikipedia)
• 30 Years of Grievance Redressed: The NTU Philosophy Department Incident Concluded (Liberty Times)
• Not a Story of Heroic Martyrdom — Reviewing the NTU Philosophy Department Incident Forty Years On (Taiwan e-News)
• Feng Hu-hsiang’s Role in the NTU Philosophy Department Incident (Peng Lai Dao Magazine Special Issue)
• “40th Anniversary of the NTU Philosophy Department Incident” Symposium (Taiwan Taihu Educational Foundation)
• The Baodiao Movement and the NTU Philosophy Department Incident (Movements · Lives)