The Taiwan Exposition: In Commemoration of the First Forty Years of Colonial Rule

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The Taiwan Exposition: In Commemoration of the First Forty Years of Colonial Rule
Sugar Industry pavilion
Overview
BIE -class Unrecognized exposition
Name The Taiwan Exposition: In Commemoration of the First Forty Years of Colonial Rule
Building(s) Sugar industry pavilion
Visitors over 1 million
Organized by Nakagawa Kenz? and Hiroyoshi Hirasuka
Participant(s)
Countries 4
Location
Country Japanese Taiwan
City Taihoku (now Taipei)
Timeline
Opening 10 October 1935
Closure 28 November 1935
Contemporaneous bird's eye maps by Hatsusabur? Yoshida showing clockwise from top Ximending area, the larger bottom panel the National Taiwan Museum area, bottom right Dait?tei and lastly Beitou with a hot spring shown
Dated ( Japanese Neng? date format) rubber stamp of Pavilion of Sugar Industry in Formosa Memorial Exhibition

The Taiwan Exposition: In Commemoration of the First Forty Years of Colonial Rule was an exhibition held in Taihoku Prefecture in 1935, the 10th year of Hirohito 's reign, to mark 40 years of the establishment of Japanese Formosa (now Taiwan). [1]

The exhibition ran from 10 October 1935 for 50 days until 28 November, and was attended by over a million people. [2] The Governor-General Nakagawa Kenz? and Director of General Affairs Hiroyoshi Hirasuka presided over the exhibition. [3]

Exhibition sites [ edit ]

The organisers were unable to find a suitable single site for the exhibition, [1] and originally selected two sites in Zhongshan District , with a third in the more remote Beitou hot springs area. [2] But, following concerns that this was too focused in the city centre one in Dait?tei was added, [4]

Zhongshan Hall area, Ximending [ edit ]

The first area was in front of the recently completed Taipei Zhongshan Hall , [1] Ximending , hosted the large ceremonies, [1] showed Taiwanese agriculture, forestry, railway construction, mining, sugar and telecoms; displays from Japan, Korea and Manchuria and Japanese businesses including Mitsui & Co. and Nippon Steel Corp.. [2] It was 4.29 hectares big. [4]

There were displays from Formosa itself, Japan, Korea and Manchuria . [2]

National Taiwan Museum area [ edit ]

The "First Cultural Pavilion" was housed in what is now the National Taiwan Museum . [4] It was 7.93 hectares big. [4]

  • Aerial view of National Taiwan Museum area
    Aerial view of National Taiwan Museum area

Beitou hot springs [ edit ]

A site away from Taipei in the Beitou hot springs area was used to promote tourist attractions in Taiwan and plans for Datun National Park (now Yangmingshan National Park ) and was housed in a "'Grass Mountain Exhibition Hall". [2]

Dait?tei [ edit ]

The first two areas were both central Taipei, which led to local gentry making a request for a third exhibition area elsewhere in Taipei, in Dait?tei (now Dadaocheng). [4]

This area hosted the "South Pavilion" which showed products from Siam (Thailand), the Philippines province and the Fujian Province, along with information about plans for Japan's future expansion. [4]

Entertainments intended to attract Taiwanese people to this section included the opera performer Mei Lanfang , a Mazu parade and a Peking opera group. [4]

Attendance [ edit ]

It is estimated that over a million people attended the fair, with 2,750,000 individual visits to the several exhibition halls. [2]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b c d Allen, Joseph R (27?30 December 2005). "Exhibiting the Colony, Suggesting the Nation: The Taiwan Exposition, 1935" (PDF) . Modern Language Association Convention 2005 . Washington, D.C.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Taiwan's Most Prominent Exposition" . Digital Taiwan ? Culture & Nature . Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program . Retrieved 8 March 2019 .
  3. ^ Phillips, Steven E. (2003). Between Assimilation and Independence: The Taiwanese Encounter Nationalist China, 1945-1950 . Stanford University Press. p. 36. ISBN   9780804744577 . Retrieved 3 June 2020 .
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Special Exhibition｜Back in their times: a visual history of Taiwan from the 1930s to the 1960s" , Memorial Foundation of 228 , Taipei, Taiwan, 14 February 2021 , retrieved 10 January 2024
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