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437: 25: 389:. Lien gained an early interest in Chinese and Taiwanese culture and history from stories told him by his father and private tutors.When Lien was 13 years old, his father gave him a book about the introduction of Taiwan, inspiring Lien's mind for recording Taiwan's history. With this exceptional schooling, Lien quickly developed into a young scholar-poet. 133: 421:, defeat the control of Japanese army. Lien moved out from his house where the Lien family had lived for seven generations for Black Flag Army to station. After Japanese army fully controlled Taiwan, Lien's house was expropriated by the Japanese government and used as a district court, forcing Lien being homeless at that time. 488:
Back in Taiwan, Lien devoted himself to the cause of writing the history of Taiwan. Through his studies of mainland Chinese history and culture, Lien realized that the Taiwanese must also awaken in themselves a love for their own distinct heritage, language, and nationalism in order to withstand
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Lien's poems and historical works inspire in the Taiwanese a national sense of culture and spirit. His General History of Taiwan is to this day a remarkable view into the island's rich and diverse history. His poems and works were also later compiled into a collection in 1992 called the
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Lien divided the General History of Taiwan into three sections: 1. The Annals 2. The Records and 3. The Biographies. The scope of Lien's work was immense, covering subjects spanning from historic migrations of
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After completion of the General History of Taiwan, Lien Heng continued to encourage Taiwanese nationalism through political activism, poetry, and journalism. Lien died in 1936 at 58 years of age.
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up until the Japanese occupation. The work was a culmination of Lien's extensive research and the most comprehensive collection of Taiwanese history up until that time.
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foreign oppression. Lien searched the island for archaeological and written remains of the earliest settlers of the island in order to gather information. On moving to
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and the death of his father in the same year had a great effect on Lien. Lien felt as little connection to the foreign Qing China as he did to the new
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and other Anti-Manchu revolutionary causes. As a result of his revolutionary activities, the government deemed his newspaper a radical threat to the
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On returning to Taiwan in 1898, Lien Heng married Lady Shen Ao. In 1899 Lien was recruited as editor-in-chief by the
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Harrison, Mark (2006). "Lien Heng (1878-1936): Taiwan's Search for Identity and Tradition (Review)".
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The work begins with the poignant line, "A country may be destroyed, but never its history".
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Taiwanese historian, politician, poet, merchant, editor of a Tainan's local newspaper.
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Lien Heng was 17 when Taiwan came under Japanese imperial rule as a result of the
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Lien Heng 1878-1936 : Taiwan's Search for Identity and Tradition
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Lien Heng was born on 17 February 1878 in Taiwan Prefecture,
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A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947
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Province. The family had moved to Taiwan at the end of the
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Lien and other intellectuals such as 465:where he formed his own newspaper, the 325: 461:In 1905 Lien and his family moved to 7: 562:Lien Ya-t'ang hsien-sheng ch'uan-chi 776: 887: 851: 839: 812: 800: 788: 764: 752: 740: 725: 698: 686: 662: 606: 377:as they were adamantly opposed to 14: 1022:20th-century Taiwanese historians 997:Taiwanese people of Hoklo descent 517:In 1921, Lien Heng published the 23: 1007:20th-century Chinese historians 619:Han Cheung (16 February 2020). 335: 237: 225: 213: 927:. Cambridge University Press. 546:Records of the Grand Historian 477:wrote articles supporting the 315: 306: 93:You may also add the template 1: 961:. Stanford University Press. 342:The General History of Taiwan 258:The General History of Taiwan 1037:Taiwanese emigrants to China 1032:20th-century Taiwanese poets 944:. China Publishing Company. 940:Goddard, William G. 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Taiwan County
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Taiwan Prefecture
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Pe̍h-ōe-jī
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Pe̍h-ōe-jī
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