Established in 1914, making it the oldest large-scale courthouse still standing in Taiwan. It was famously the site of the show trials that followed the 1915 Tapani Uprising (噍吧哖事件), also known as the Xilai Temple Incident (西來庵事件), in which 866 Taiwanese were given death sentences (with three-quarters later commuted to life imprisonment). Judicial proceedings relocated the 2000s and it was restored and eventually opened to the public by 2016. It now operates as Tainan Judicial Museum (司法博物館).
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Heritage Status
- National Monument (國定古蹟)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- See Zine (晰誌)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
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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.