Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan • Hsiao-ting Lin

The false certainty of hindsight makes it seem inevitable that the Japanese colony of Taiwan would, after the Second World War, come under Nationalist (Kuomintang or KMT) control; and it was surely logical that Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT would flee to the island in the dying days of the [...]