KMT Contends with Legacy of 228
The Kuomintang, or KMT, ruled Taiwan as an authoritarian one-party state for decades, and was responsible for the 228 Incident. But it also oversaw Taiwan’s transition to democracy in the 1990s. TaiwanPlus reporter Ed Moon looks at how the party managed to reinvent itself, and how the legacy of 228 still haunts it to this day.
