George H. Kerr (November 1911–August 27, 1992)


以下有關George H. Kerr 生平資料節錄自Wikipedia 百科全書

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Kerr

Kerr’s books on Taiwan are numerous. He championed the cause of Taiwan independence from China, thereby making himself a high-profile enemy to both Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. (Chiang complained and Kerr lost his job at Stanford University.) While certainly an influential political writer and commentator, his reputation as a historian in Chinese history is questioned by many Sinologists due to his apparent stance against China.
(因支持台灣獨立，與蔣介石與毛澤東敵對。並因蔣介石的投訴，丟掉史丹福大學的教職，且飽受中國派的學者圍剿.)

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Formosa Betrayed was one of the most influential books on Taiwan during the transition between the Japanese colonial rule and the Nationalist Chinese administration. George Kerr was working for the American Foreign Service at the time and was present in Taiwan for the KMT occupation and resulting aftermath. Formosa Betrayed made a sharp rebuke of the Nationalist administration and made arguments in favor of Taiwanese independence. As a result, the English version only made one printing as the KMT bought the English Copyright in 1965 and never let the book resume printing, until 1992, when the second edition was published by Taiwan Publishing Co. The book is now legally available online.
(1965英文版第一版問世後，版權即被中國國民黨買走，而沒有繼續發行)