{"id":569,"date":"2016-02-22T22:42:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/?p=569"},"modified":"2016-02-22T22:42:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:42:53","slug":"feburary-community-forum-an-eyewitness-report-of-the-2-28-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Feburary Community Forum: An Eyewitness Report of The 2.28 Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Sunday, Feb, 21st, 2016. We were honored to have Mr. Peter Lin (\u6797\u535a\u667a) as a speaker of our monthly community forum.\"IMG_6276<\/a><\/p>\n

Peter<\/span> Lin (<\/b>\u6797\u535a\u667a<\/b>)<\/b> was born in 1934 near Tainan, Taiwan, as a Japanese because Taiwan was then occupied by Japan. His family moved to\u00a0 Shanghai when he was six years old. Through his English studies after his family returned to Taiwan in 1946 and his later life experiences once he came to the U.S in 1960, he continued to focus on building relationships through involvement with the United Church of Christ churches, serving as a local leader in the UCC and American Citizens League (TACL), organizing events with other Asian\u00a0American minority groups\u00a0to coordinate their political actions. Even Peter<\/span>\u2019s decision to study law after coming to\u00a0 the U.S stemmed from his desire to help people and give back to society. As an eyewitness of 2.28 incident, he spoke about what he saw and remember about the 2.28 incident. The incident influenced many Taiwanese against the Kuo-Ming Tan.\"IMG_6279<\/a><\/p>\n

Special Guest: Woei Ren Chen <\/b>was born in 1939 in Lodung, I-Lan. Mr. Chen earned his Master of Divinity at Yale University Divinity School in 1968, and received his M.L.S at University of Pittsburgh, School of Library and Information Science in 1969. As an eyewitness of 2.28 incident, he made a impressive eyewitness report for at the forum.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_6247\"<\/a>UW East Asia Library Director Zhijia Shen Introduces Mr. Lin and Mr. Chen
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Q&A Session: Mr. Lin answers the audiences’ questions
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Special Guest Mr. Chen makes\u00a0his eyewitness report<\/p>\n

Next month, Sunday, March. 20th, 2016. We will be hosting another Community Forum, starting at 3:00 pm. Please feel free to join us in another great speech!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week Sunday, Feb, 21st, 2016. We were honored to have Mr. Peter Lin (\u6797\u535a\u667a) as a speaker of our monthly community forum. Peter Lin (\u6797\u535a\u667a) was born in 1934 near Tainan, Taiwan, as a Japanese because Taiwan was then occupied by Japan. His family moved to\u00a0 Shanghai when he was six years old. Through … Continue reading Feburary Community Forum: An Eyewitness Report of The 2.28 Incident<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}