A statue in Shitan Riverside Park (獅潭河濱公園), just behind Shitan Yimin Temple (獅潭義民廟), honoring Huang Nanqiu (黃南球), a Qing dynasty pioneer credited with opening up much of the interior of Miaoli to Han Chinese settlement through force and coercion. He also led troops in the Yiwei War (乙未戰爭), resisting the Japanese invasion of Taiwan in 1895, but fled to China for several years before returning as a businessman and entrepreneur. Digging deeper, one will find that he was ruthless in his approach to the local population of Taiwanese Indigenous people.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Vocus: Hongyan (鴻雁)
Themes
- Qing Dynasty Era Taiwan (清治時期台灣)
- Contested Heritage in Taiwan (爭議文化遺產)
- Han Settlement of Taiwan (漢人移墾)
- Yiwei War (乙未戰爭)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.