The period from Taiwan's retrocession through the February 28 Incident (an incident beginning on that date in 1947 when many people died in clas hes between native Taiwanese and the authorities newly arrived from mainland China following Taiwan's reunification with China at the end of World War Two) and throughout the 1950s, was perhaps the most critical period in Taiwan's history.
由台灣光復，經「二二八」事變，直到五○年代，可說是戰後台灣歷史最關緊要的時期。