<strong>Feb. 14 to FEB. 20</strong>
The first time pianist Kao Tzu-mei (高慈美) toured Taiwan, it was a cheerful occasion. In August 1934, Kao and other music students in Japan returned home and put on seven dazzling performances of Western music along the west coast to great fanfare.
But disaster struck the next year. In April 1935, the 7.1-magnitude Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake left more than 3,000 dead, 11,000 wounded and the surrounding area and infrastructure heavily damaged.
Tsai Pei-huo (蔡培火), president of the Taiwan New Minpao (台灣新民報) newspaper, organized a series of charity concerts to help the victims and the
<strong>Oct. 11 to Oct.17</strong>
After more than two decades of fighting the Japanese government for local autonomy, the “Taiwanese Lion” found himself running the show in 1950.
The fiery political activist Yang Chao-chia (楊肇嘉) was a 58-year-old public servant by then, serving as the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) minister of civil affairs. His nemesis, the Japanese colonial government had left at the end of World War II, and the new government had tasked him with running Taiwan’s first direct mayoral and county magistrate elections.
Yang started his career as an activist pushing for a Taiwanese representative assembly in the Japanese Diet.
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