• Events from the year 1916 in Taiwan, Empire of Japan. Emperor: Taisho Prime Minister: Ōkuma Shigenobu, Terauchi Masatake Governor-General – Andō Teibi...
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    Chen Chih-hsiung (category Taiwanese expatriates in Indonesia)
    February 1916 – 28 May 1963) was a Taiwanese independence activist. Chen was born in what was known as Akō Chō, a division of Japanese Taiwan, in 1916. He...
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  • Military Service Act 1916, introduced in January 1916 in the UK during World War I Military Service Act (Canada), introduced in Canada in 1917 during World...
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    The 1916–1917 Nantou earthquakes (Chinese: 1916年南投地震系列; pinyin: 1916 nián Nántóu dìzhèn xìliè) affected central Taiwan in 1916 and 1917, causing heavy...
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    Chiang Fang-liang (category Taiwanese people of Belarusian descent)
    romanized: Faina Ipatsyewna Vakhrava; 15 May 1916 – 15 December 2004) was the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988 as the wife of President...
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    was inhabited by a diversity of Taiwanese indigenous peoples speaking Austronesian languages until Han settlement began in the early 17th century, around...
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  • In Taiwan, some of the most popular sports include baseball, basketball, badminton, football, softball, table tennis, tennis, and volleyball. Martial...
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    Taiwan is in a seismically active zone, on the Pacific Ring of Fire, and at the western edge of the Philippine Sea plate. Geologists have identified 42...
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    Shosei Go (category Taiwanese expatriate baseball players in Japan)
    Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Chhiong-cheng; Japanese: Go Shōsei; June 28, 1916 – June 7, 1987) was a Taiwanese two-way baseball player who played for the Tokyo Giants (1937–1943...
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    Chiayi, Taiwan Branch in Hsinchu, Taiwan, photographed in 1939 Branch in Hualien, Taiwan, photographed in 1916 Branch in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Branch in Keelung...
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    as the president of Taiwan, is the head of state of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Republic...
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    of the Republic of China that covers the period of history in mainland China and Taiwan. In the "Blue Sky with a White Sun" symbol, the twelve rays of...
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    Museum of Taiwan Literature (NMTL; Chinese: 國立臺灣文學館; pinyin: Guólì Táiwān Wénxuéguǎn) is a museum located in Tainan, Taiwan. Operated by Taiwan's Ministry...
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    growth and the stabilization of inflation. Football was introduced to Taiwan in 1916 by Edward Band who was the principal of Tainan's Chang Jung High School...
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    Taiwanese Hokkien (/ˈhɒkiɛn/ HOK-ee-en, US also /ˈhoʊkiɛn/ HOH-kee-en; Chinese: 臺灣話; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân-ōe; Tâi-lô: Tâi-uân-uē), or simply Taiwanese...
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    of Taiwan List of political office-holders of the Republic of China by age Proclaimed a new empire from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916. Died in office...
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    surpassed the British Empire's output around 1916, which in turn had surpassed the economy of the Qing dynasty in aggregate output decades earlier. Since China's...
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  • works of distinctly Taiwanese philosophy is Lin Mosei's 1916 publication, Wang Yang-ming's Liangzhi (王陽明の良知說). The history of Taiwanese philosophy can be...
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  • Yiren Rong Yiren (1916-2005), entrepreneur and former Vice-President of the People's Republic of China Jocelyn Wang (Wang Yiren), Taiwan actress and news...
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    ROC was forced to retreat to Taiwan and retains control over the "Taiwan Area"; the political status of Taiwan remains in dispute to this day. The Republic...
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    multi-party democracy in Taiwan. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the Constitution's origins in mainland China led to supporters of Taiwan independence to...
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  • This is a list of famous Taiwanese people. People who were not born in Taiwan are indicated by an asterisk (*, notation incomplete). Alien Huang Hong sheng...
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    Tu Tsung-ming (category Presidents of National Taiwan University)
    was a Taiwanese pharmacologist and educator and Taiwan's first Doctor of Medical Sciences (equivalent to Ph.D.). Tu Tsung-ming was born in Tamsui in 1893...
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    Zhang Xueliang (category Taiwanese people from Liaoning)
    first in mainland China and then in Taiwan. Zhang would remain under confinement until 1988, a period of more than 50 years. Zhang Xueliang was born in Haicheng...
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    China lost mainland China in the Civil War and retreated to Taiwan. The National Assembly resumed its meeting in Taipei in 1954. In the 1990s, its parliamentary...
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  • Wanli (section Taiwan)
    Group, group in Zhejiang, China Wanli District, New Taipei, a district in New Taipei, Taiwan Wanli River tributary of the Hualien River in Taiwan This disambiguation...
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    calendar used in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu. The calendar uses 1912, the year of the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) in Nanjing, as...
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  • Singapore, while traditional characters are officially used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Simplification of a component—either a character or a sub-component...
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    Tainan (redirect from Tainan City, Taiwan)
    (/ˈtaɪˈnɑːn/), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on...
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    languages of Taiwan are into Taiwanese, Hakka, Amis, and other languages of Taiwan. In Taiwan, education from kindergarten to college is done in Mandarin...
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