<strong>June 13 to June 19</strong>
Despite Taiwan being famous for its oolong tea during the late Qing Dynasty, the Japanese hoped to turn its new colony into “another Darjeeling.” The suggestion was made by the Japanese consul to Mumbai, Go Daigoro, a year after they took over Taiwan in 1895.
Indian Black tea was gaining popularity on the international market after the British systematized and mechanized large scale production in the country’s northeast, causing a steep drop in sales of other varieties of tea from East Asia. Unorganized and uneven production in Taiwan with many producers cutting corners to save
Translated by Robert D. Eldridge, the book tells the remarkable story of how Meiji Japan contributed its best engineers to the modernization of Taiwan.