Oh. Not enough. Here are more. Your beloved CCP are as much corrupt as this guy did.
"""""""""""""""""Chen and FormosaIn 1935, Chen was sent to Taiwan by (Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975)) Chiang Kai-shek to attend "Exposition to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Beginning of Administration in Taiwan," an exposition which has remained unique and unrivaled to this day, and which served as a report on the achievements of Taiwan's modernization process under Japanese rule. During his stay in Taiwan, he praised the modern public facilities and the strong economic development in (Click link for more info and facts about Taiwan under Japanese rule) Taiwan under Japanese rule. Chen publicly expressed his admiration with jealousy about the advanced life quality Taiwanese people enjoyed compared with the Chinese mainlanders who suffered from prolonged war incurred destruction and lack of further modernization. After he went back to (Click link for more info and facts about Fujian) Fujian, he filed a report to (Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975)) Chiang Kai-shek about his visit. With his experience in Japan and Taiwan, Chen had became the first candidate as the Taiwan governor in Chiang's mind after Japan relinquished the sovereignty of Taiwan.
Under the authorization of (United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan (1880-1964)) Douglas MacArthur's General Order No. 1 (*), Chen Yi was escorted by (Click link for more info and facts about George Kerr) George Kerr to Taiwan for accepting Japan government's surrender as the Chinese delegate. On October 25 1945, joined by delegates from Allied Powers, Chen signed a surrender instrument with General Ando Rikichi, governor-general of Taiwan, in Taipei City Hall (current Zhongshan Hall). Chen Yi proclaimed that day to be the retrocession day of Taiwan which was regarded as legally controversial as Japan had not yet ceded Taiwan in any treaty until 1952.
Chen was later removed from the position of Taiwan governor general for his mishandling of the administration of Taiwan which resulted in the (Click link for more info and facts about 228 Incident) 228 Incident. In the early years of Chinese rule, rampant corruption in the new administration headed by Chen caused severe inflation, which in turn lead to widespread local discontent. Allegations of (Click link for more info and facts about carpet bagging) carpet bagging by new immigrants from the mainland and a breakdown in social and governmental services also served to increase tensions. As the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Pao remarked, Chen ran everything "from the hotel to the night-soil business." The Taiwanese felt like colonial stepchildren rather than long-lost (Click link for more info and facts about sons of Han) sons of Han.
Anti-mainlander violence flared on February 28, 1947, prompted by an incident in which innocent civilians were injured and shot to death by ROC authorities. For several weeks after the February 28 Incident, the rebels held control of much of the main island of Taiwan. Under orders from (Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975)) Chiang Kai-shek, Chen deployed military troops from the mainland against the Taiwanese insurgents. By April, Chen had executed or jailed all the leading rebels he could identify and catch, and his troops had wantonly slaughtered (said a Taiwanese delegation in (A city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s) Nanjing) between 3,000 and 4,000 throughout the island.(*) Tens of thousands of Taiwanese civilians, including many of the social elite, died in the resulting massacres and purges which drew widespread international attention. Following protests by the (The legislature of the United States government) United States Congress, Chiang dismissed Chen from his position as governor general to appease international pressure.
Following his dismissal from the post of Taiwan governor general, Chen was employed as a consultant. In June 1948, he took the position of provincial chairman of (Click link for more info and facts about Zhejiang) Zhejiang province. In November, he released over a hundred communists scheduled to be executed. In January 1949, his subordinate, Tang Enbo (???), informed (Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975)) Chiang Kai-shek that Chen had advised him to rebel against the Kuomintang. Chiang immediately relieved Chen's chairmanship on the charge of collaboration with the Communists. On May 30, Chen Yi was transported to Taiwan to be imprisoned; he was later executed at Machangting (???), (The capital of Nationalist China; located in northern Taiwan) Taipei, and was buried in Wuku, Taipei County.
Quotes from Chen"Mainland Chinese were advanced enough to enjoy the privileges of constitutional government, but because of long years of despotic Japanese rule, the Formosans were politically retarded and were not capable of carrying on self-government in an intelligent manner."(1947)(*)
"It took the Japs [sic.] 51 years to dominate this island. I expect to take about five years to re-educate the people so they will be more happy with Chinese administration."(1947)(*)
"I never forgot private enterprise. I always intended to re-establish it."(1947)(*)
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Not something that Japan wanted to touch
In June 1865, Japan took the territory of
Taiwan, including the Pescadores, in accordance
with the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the
Sino-Japanese War. However, at least between
June 1895 and March 1898, the uncivilized lands
of Taiwan were not actually something that Japan
wanted to touch.
All kinds of local sicknesses rampant
The majority of the population was still illiterate,
because there was no modern education system, and
the cultural level was fairly low. The local people
were very different from the Japanese in their
culture and situation; in almost 212 years of Qing
Dynasty rule, social and public authority had not
spread, with the result that folk customs still held
sway and government was not easy. On top of this,
the climate was hot and humid, sanitation was
primitive, and local diseases were rampant. Open a
newspaper from the first five years of Japanese rule,
the "Taiwan Daily News," and you will find records
of the virulent local diseases everywhere.
"Taiwan Baikyaku Ron"
As for managing rule of Taiwan, since the
circumstances were not all that smooth, somebody
in the Japanese Imperial Diet came up with the
idea of "Taiwan Baikyaku Ron," which advocated
selling this territory to France, who had a
particular interest, for 100 million yen. However,
this proposal was not accepted by the Diet.
Choosing a process of "gradual assimilation"
In March 1898, after Kodama Gentaro took
office as the fourth governor of Taiwan,
everything began to change. Kodama appointed
Goto Shimpei, who had a background of medical
training, as the chief civil administrator of
Taiwan. Goto based his work on "Colonial
Management based on Biological Principles," and
began to establish the foundations of modern
construction in Taiwan. Goto's "Colonial
Management based on Biological Principles" were
based on his belief that [trying to rule Taiwan
along Japanese lines] was like transplanting
the eyes of a bream onto a flatfish, completely
unnatural! If all the systems and institutions
in use at that time in Japan were to be directly
transplanted to unmodernized and uncivilized
Taiwan, they would certainly bring unwarranted
misunderstandings and clashes. For governing
Taiwan, Goto advocated a process of "gradual
assimilation," and also temporarily terminated
the long-running debate between the two
approaches of basic policy, "interior expansionism
(assimilation policy)," and "special government
(non-assimilation policy)."
The appointment of Goto Shimpei
Goto Shimpei spent eight years as chief civil
administrator, from March 1898 to November
1906. Starting from hygiene and health, he
advanced all kinds of investigative work; he
created a unified monetary system by which
promoted financial and commercial exchange;
he carried out construction and expansion of
all kinds of communications and transportation
enterprises; he developed hydro- and
thermoelectric power plants in order to
establish the power resource foundations for
Taiwan's development of industry; and starting
with the improvement of rice and sugar strains,
he revitalized Taiwan's rice and sugar
industries.
Taiwan's modernization advanced almost in step
with that of Japan
Something which must be mentioned is that
Taiwan's experience of modernization went very
nearly hand in hand with that of Japan as it
developed. Japan's modernization experience
started in 1868 with the Meiji Restoration, and
the two major ideas were "colonization and
industry" and "rich country, strong army."
However, before 1877, the imperial government
was busy with quelling armed uprisings brewed
by dissatisfied forces within Japan, and the
real modernization only began to be implemented
genuinely after these armed clashes had been
stopped completely. Not long after, in 1895,
Japan took its new territory of Taiwan. We can
infer from this that Japan's own modernization
steps were not that much faster than those of
Taiwan. As for the modern-day civilization which
takes Western culture as its subject, on many
occasions, Japanese administrative authorities
were still studying and groping around for it.
Consequently, sometimes Taiwan also became an
important testing ground for Japan's process of
modernization and cultural development.
Implementing household registration and
population census
To take the investigative work as an example,
apart from land and forestry surveys, and
investigations into old customs in Taiwan, Japan
implemented a household registration system in
Taiwan, and carried out a population census. In
order to effectively grasp all sorts of
information and data about the territory which
they ruled, the promotion of statistics and
surveying work was extremely important groundwork
for modern nations. The population census was
also the base of all kinds of other statistical
and surveying work. However, Japan did not carry
out a population census of itself until 1920,
while Taiwan had finished the work for its first
population census in 1905. Because those leading
domestic politics in contemporary Japan lacked
accurate knowledge of the work involved in a
population census, the census in Japan took off
ten years after that of Japan's new territories.
The major factor was that these political leaders
were unable to differentiate household registration
from a population census, and naturally they were
unwilling to put a budget aside for a population
census. Consequently, when the first population
census was carried out in Taiwan in 1905, it was
under the name of "First Provisional Taiwan
Household Registration Survey." In 1915, population
census work was promoted under the name of "Second
Provisional Taiwan Household Registration Survey."
In fact, the population census was literally
entitled "survey of national strength," and the
statisticians engaged in the survey used this title
to emphasize that the scope of a population census
goes beyond mere population figures, includes
surveys of industry, management and other levels,
and as a matter of course gives the outside world
an impression of being a survey of "national
wealth." On top of this, the great powers of Europe
and America were carrying out this kind of policy
too, and this was one of the important conditions
of Japan becoming a "civilized nation." With the
incessant propaganda of the statisticians and the
help of pressure groups, in 1920 the political
leaders of Japan were finally persuaded to carry
out a population census, and Taiwan too, was able
to continue, with Japan, to promote all kinds of
survey work under the name of "survey of national
strength."
Sewerage system construction
To take another example, this time of public
sanitation and the engineering work of the
sewerage system, at the end of 1895, the British
engineer W. K. Burton was commissioned with
carrying out a program of public sanitation
engineering. By 1898, construction of the Taipei
sewerage system had been completed. In 1905,
Taiwan already had two public waterworks, and
by 1934, this number had increased to 83. In
fact, the construction of Taiwan's sewerage
system predated that of many Japanese cities.
An undeniable help to Taiwan's economy
At the beginning of its occupation of Taiwan,
the imperial government provided the governor
general with subsidies of 7 million yen a
year, and originally calculated that after 30
years, Taiwan's public finances would be able
to be independent. However, in the wake of
the smoothness of vigorous industrial
development and increase in income from
government monopolies and land tax, Taiwan's
public finances became independent in 1905,
and from 1907, a surplus could be returned to
the imperial government. In October 1935, the
governor general of Taiwan held an "Exposition
to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the
Beginning of Administration in Taiwan," an
exposition which has remained unique and
unrivaled to this day, and which served as a
report on the achievements of Taiwan's
modernization process under Japanese rule. It
attracted attention from all over the world,
including the Republic of China's KMT regime,
and was highly admired. In fact, the legacy
"colonial modernization" under Japanese rule
was an undeniable help to the economy of
Taiwan until well into the 1950s and 1960s.
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