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-classUnrecognized exposition
NameThe Taiwan Exposition: In Commemoration of the First Forty Years of Colonial Rule
Building(s)Sugar industry pavilion
Visitorsover 1 million
Organized byNakagawa Kenzō and Hiroyoshi Hirasuka
Participant(s)
Countries4
Location
CountryJapanese Taiwan
CityTaihoku (now Taipei)
Timeline
Opening10 October 1935
Closure28 November 1935
Daitōtei
and lastly Beitou with a hot spring shown
Dated (Japanese Nengō 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

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 Kenzō and Director of General Affairs Hiroyoshi Hirasuka presided over the exhibition.[3]

Exhibition sites

The organisers were unable to find a suitable single site for the exhibition,

Daitōtei was added,[4]

Zhongshan Hall area, Ximending

The first area was in front of the recently completed

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

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

A site away from Taipei in the

Yangmingshan National Park) and was housed in a "'Grass Mountain Exhibition Hall".[2]

Daitōtei

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

Daitōtei (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

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

References

  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. 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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