(Google search at 4:03 pm, keyword = 228)
This picture was taken from the 228 incident, a political massacre happened in Taiwan on Feb 28, 1947. This photograph showed the young intellectuals sitting together with their families. They were killed during the 228 incident among thousands of other people.
These intellectuals were very very rare at that time. Before Chiang Kai-shek's government failed to fight against the communist party and arrived in Taiwan in 1945, Taiwan was under Japanese rulers for 50 years.
Education at that time was mainly for the Japanese residents in Taiwan. Among the local Taiwanese, only very few people were able to study with the Japanese or even went aboard for further study. (However most of these people were murdered at 228 incident.)
And once the Chiang party arrived, the disaster was even much more elaborated than the Japanese. There were no constructions at all but only murders, rubbery, rapes and smuggles conducted by the Chiang party themselves who claimed to "liberate" the Taiwanese. The prolonged WWII had made these people more than soldiers --- they were monsters.
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