The CCP’ Interpretation On The 228 Incident

The 228 Incident breaking out in Taiwan in 1947 aroused heated discussion among parties and countries at the time and also exerts great influences on many issues of Taiwan and on Taiwanese national identity and national reunification. Therefore, the 228 Incident can be considered to be one significant factor to explore the development of Taiwan’s recovery. The incident, whose injuries to Taiwanese have not been healed, profoundly affects the progress of China’s reunification since it has been rendered by political parties. Throughout the history, different definitions and interpretations of the 228 Incident have been shaped from perspectives of parties, victims, perpetrators and scholar studying this incident. The definitions and interpretations changes through time, which makes the 228 Incident typical. It is a noted research topic and continues unabated so there are various researches on it, including academic articles, books, monographs, files, manuscripts, records of narrated history and memoirs, etc. and these researches probe into the definition, scope, profundity, perspectives and effects of the incident and therefore influence Taiwan’s political ecologyShortly after the occurring of the incident, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China announced that the 228 Incident was identified as Taiwanese democratic autonomy campaign against Chiang Kai-shek’s regime. As for this, the Communists did not deviate from this category roughly in the following elaborations, however, with the changing domestic situation, they made more corresponding changes. This article focus on the 228 Incident, from the perspective of the CCP, taking the People’s Daily for example, in the perspective of historical development, exploring the process of interpretation of the times which aimed at solving the contradiction between different domestics from the actual situation at different times and different social backgrounds. Taking the time in People’s Daily as a clue to discuss the historical context of 228 Incident stingingly, in the CCP’ summarizes, the interpretation of this event presents three processes:a Communist revolt, revolution autonomy, national unity. From the comparison of these three processes, the CCP’ statements changed, but did not deviate from the essence of the event, instead they made reasonable explanations for the contradiction to different periods according to the impacts of different periods It can not only show the historical facts of different periods, but also reflect that with the changes in the current situation the CCP adjusted its policies toward Taiwan to complete the reunification of the motherland.