October 25th, 1945. Nearly two months after the Japanese surrender, the island of Taiwan was placed under the rule of the Republic of China (ROC). This handover would end 50 years of Japanese colonisation and put the people of Taiwan under a government it had not known before — the Nationalist government and Chiang Kaishek’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) Party. Previous to this period, the last time Taiwan belonged to China, the Guangxu Emperor sat on the throne in Beijing, and it was during the spiraling tail end of the Qing Dynasty. This sudden change of power and handing over of authority would result in an intense culture clash as the ROC “liberated” the island, and the people of Taiwan would through almost 4 decades of censorship, persecution, and suppression of identity.
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