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Railway Department Of The Office Of The Governor-General Of Taiwan
The Railway Department of the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan ( zh, 台灣總督府交通局鐵道部) is a National Historic Site in Taiwan, also known as the Taihoku Railway Bureau or the Railway Department of the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan's Bureau of Transportation. The site, near the Taipei North Gate, was in use for railway administration during the late Qing dynasty, but the extant building is a Japanese colonial administrative building in Taipei dating from 1919. It was granted national monument status in 2007, and is a part of the National Taiwan Museum The National Taiwan Museum (NTM; ), established in 1908, is the oldest museum in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was founded by the colonial government during Taiwan's period of Japanese rule. The museum is located in Zhongzheng District, T .... References 1919 establishments in Taiwan 2007 establishments in Taiwan Museums established in 2007 Railway museums in Taiwan National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taipei North Gate
Constructed in 1884, Taipei North Gate (), formally Cheng'en Gate (), is the best-preserved gate of the Walls of Taipei, and is a National Monument of Taiwan. Its design is a 2-story closed blockhouse of solid construction with traditional Chinese wooden roof truss and streamlined carved ornamentations. Important in the Qing layout of the city, restoring it to visual prominence in the city has been a feature of recent urban planning.CHIU, Kuo-wei. "Urban Transconfiguration of a Colonial-Modern City: Towards Inclusive Historical Metamorphosis." It gives its name to Beimen metro station. References References * Buildings and structures completed in 1884 Buildings and structures in Taipei City walls in Taiwan, Taipei History of Taipei {{Taiwan-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qing Dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaking ethnic group who unified other Jurchen tribes to form a new "Manchu" ethnic identity. The dynasty was officially proclaimed in 1636 in Manchuria (modern-day Northeast China and Outer Manchuria). It seized control of Beijing in 1644, then later expanded its rule over the whole of China proper and Taiwan, and finally expanded into Inner Asia. The dynasty lasted until 1912 when it was overthrown in the Xinhai Revolution. In orthodox Chinese historiography, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. The multiethnic Qing dynasty lasted for almost three centuries and assembled the territorial base for modern China. It was the largest imperial dynasty in the history of China and in 1790 the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Taiwan Museum
The National Taiwan Museum (NTM; ), established in 1908, is the oldest museum in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was founded by the colonial government during Taiwan's period of Japanese rule. The museum is located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei. History Established in 1908, the museum is the oldest in Taiwan. The colonial government of Japan set up the Taiwan Governor Museum (臺灣總督府民政部殖產局附屬博物館()), which officially opened on 24 October 1908, to commemorate the inauguration of the North-South Railway. The museum had a collection of over 10,000 items in its initial stages. In 1915, the new building of the museum in Taihoku New Park was inaugurated and became one of the major public buildings during Japanese rule. In 1935 it was used to house the ''First Cultural Pavilion'' at The Taiwan Exposition: In Commemoration of the First Forty Years of Colonial Rule. After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China, the Department o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Establishments In Taiwan
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2– 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in Berlin: The Marxist Spartacus League, with the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and the Independent Social Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
