Taiwan (a.k.a., Formosa), an island neighboring what is now known as China (PRC), was annexed by the Qing Empire about 3 hundred years ago. Then Qing lost a war as well as this island to Japan, and consequently Taiwan became a colony of Japan. Later, revolution happen in Qing, making this empire become the “Republic of China.” 30 years later, China and Japan fought on opposite sides in WWII, which ended in the defeated and surrender of the axis alliance: Japan, Germany, and Italy. The Allied powers temporarily occupied various regions of the defeated countries around the world in order to stabilize the situation. Such occupation, as a matter of course, does not mean possession. China was in charge of occupying the Asian regions, including Taiwan.
At that time, China was also dealing with its own civil war: i.e., the KMT (Chinese Nationalist Party) vs. the Communist Party. The civil war ended with the victory of the Communists, who built the China today: People’s Republic of China, while the older regime-Republic of China-was exiled and fled to the island of Taiwan, which it had been occupying. Thereafter, ROC has never left this island and has relied on all sorts of resources of Taiwan for its own survival.
But the truth is, even though Taiwan was no longer Japan’s colony after WWII, this does not justify the claim of China (be it Republic of China or People’s Republic of China) that Taiwan should become part of Chinese territory, because military occupation is totally different from territorial possession and does not legitimize the latter. Still, ROC has lived Taiwan, used Taiwan’s resources to rule Taiwan’s peoples, and democratized its own government up to the present day. Ever since its arrival, this ROC regime has never renamed itself as “Taiwan.” On the contrary, it has kept insisting itself as the legitimate government of “China,” kept fighting and struggling against the Communist China, and kept crushing all independence movements initiated by Taiwanese people.
And this, in short, is exactly the reason why Taiwan, pathetically, is still under the name of “Republic of China,” still misusing the R.O.Chinese flag as its “national flag,” and still considered a part of the China civil war. This is also why we cannot participate in any international affair or become a member of any international organization or become acknowledge as a state, although this island is de facto independent. Vatican, for example, is one of the few countries which still has a diplomatic relation with Taiwan; but what Vatican really acknowledges is the Republic of China-as the sole and legitimate representative government of China-instead of Taiwan. Such Vatican-ROC diplomatic relation has nothing to do with Taiwan as a sovereign state.
Taiwan, however, is supposed to be and deserves to be a sovereign state of its own. It is not Republic of China, the old China regime. This is why we need Taiwan independence movements, and this is why we should build an independent sovereign state-a state that truly and entirely belongs to the people of Taiwan, that functions normally and builds diplomatic relations with other countries in the world, and that is no longer confused with any China or any Chinese regime. Taiwan, a colony up to now, deserves its own state.
I agree with you conclusion but FYI technically ROC didnt lose the civil war. The civil war never ended, just like the Korean wars never technically ended. Also ROC and PRC are two different countries, they aren't the same country with two different government, because when PRC was established Mao declared it as a new nation.
Love Taiwan so much, much love from Amsterdam (but.. your language is so difficult, it will take me another 20 years to learn this lol) but yeah. Stay strong Taiwan, the free world is with you (and apparently.. the US? Not sure why but I guess they manifest thinking hard enough that they are free, lol).
The music is more about the Second Sino Japanese war where Taiwanese residents was drafted to fight in the front lines against their will to fight for a country that isn't theirs. During the 50 or so years of Japanese occupation Taiwan's Han culture and aboriginal culture was "wiped out". I put wiped out in quotes because it wasn't gone completely. Which is why you see images of people in Japanese uniform but still wear their traditional aboriginal make up. The song is deep in the sense that, despite the song is stricting singing about the events of the Second Sino Japanese war, Taiwanese history with external powers tend to repeat itself. So the song could also be interpreted as a commentary on the KMT's occupation of Taiwan, as well as CCP's attempt to occupy Taiwan.
@Lost In MPK This is my 3rd fav band and I'm gonna say one thing: if you wanna give them another listen then I'd suggest 2 songs. "Broken Jade" if you want something a little bit calmer, and "Defenders of the Bu-Tik " for one of my fav songs from them. They are an amazing band but if it's too much for you guys, I can understand :D
You guys can check out Funeral by Flesh Juicer, who are a Taiwanese metalcore band that really fucking rock. Thank you guys for being interested in Taiwanese music, it's really uplifting
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Taiwan (a.k.a., Formosa), an island neighboring what is now known as China (PRC), was annexed by the Qing Empire about 3 hundred years ago. Then Qing lost a war as well as this island to Japan, and consequently Taiwan became a colony of Japan. Later, revolution happen in Qing, making this empire become the “Republic of China.”
30 years later, China and Japan fought on opposite sides in WWII, which ended in the defeated and surrender of the axis alliance: Japan, Germany, and Italy. The Allied powers temporarily occupied various regions of the defeated countries around the world in order to stabilize the situation. Such occupation, as a matter of course, does not mean possession. China was in charge of occupying the Asian regions, including Taiwan.
At that time, China was also dealing with its own civil war: i.e., the KMT (Chinese Nationalist Party) vs. the Communist Party. The civil war ended with the victory of the Communists, who built the China today: People’s Republic of China, while the older regime-Republic of China-was exiled and fled to the island of Taiwan, which it had been occupying. Thereafter, ROC has never left this island and has relied on all sorts of resources of Taiwan for its own survival.
But the truth is, even though Taiwan was no longer Japan’s colony after WWII, this does not justify the claim of China (be it Republic of China or People’s Republic of China) that Taiwan should become part of Chinese territory, because military occupation is totally different from territorial possession and does not legitimize the latter. Still, ROC has lived Taiwan, used Taiwan’s resources to rule Taiwan’s peoples, and democratized its own government up to the present day.
Ever since its arrival, this ROC regime has never renamed itself as “Taiwan.” On the contrary, it has kept insisting itself as the legitimate government of “China,” kept fighting and struggling against the Communist China, and kept crushing all independence movements initiated by Taiwanese people.
And this, in short, is exactly the reason why Taiwan, pathetically, is still under the name of “Republic of China,” still misusing the R.O.Chinese flag as its “national flag,” and still considered a part of the China civil war. This is also why we cannot participate in any international affair or become a member of any international organization or become acknowledge as a state, although this island is de facto independent. Vatican, for example, is one of the few countries which still has a diplomatic relation with Taiwan; but what Vatican really acknowledges is the Republic of China-as the sole and legitimate representative government of China-instead of Taiwan. Such Vatican-ROC diplomatic relation has nothing to do with Taiwan as a sovereign state.
Taiwan, however, is supposed to be and deserves to be a sovereign state of its own. It is not Republic of China, the old China regime. This is why we need Taiwan independence movements, and this is why we should build an independent sovereign state-a state that truly and entirely belongs to the people of Taiwan, that functions normally and builds diplomatic relations with other countries in the world, and that is no longer confused with any China or any Chinese regime. Taiwan, a colony up to now, deserves its own state.
I agree with you conclusion but FYI technically ROC didnt lose the civil war. The civil war never ended, just like the Korean wars never technically ended. Also ROC and PRC are two different countries, they aren't the same country with two different government, because when PRC was established Mao declared it as a new nation.
Taiwan never be part of PRC ever....
This guy isn't singing song .
He is singing a histiry from Taiwan
Love Taiwan so much, much love from Amsterdam (but.. your language is so difficult, it will take me another 20 years to learn this lol) but yeah. Stay strong Taiwan, the free world is with you (and apparently.. the US? Not sure why but I guess they manifest thinking hard enough that they are free, lol).
The music is more about the Second Sino Japanese war where Taiwanese residents was drafted to fight in the front lines against their will to fight for a country that isn't theirs. During the 50 or so years of Japanese occupation Taiwan's Han culture and aboriginal culture was "wiped out". I put wiped out in quotes because it wasn't gone completely. Which is why you see images of people in Japanese uniform but still wear their traditional aboriginal make up.
The song is deep in the sense that, despite the song is stricting singing about the events of the Second Sino Japanese war, Taiwanese history with external powers tend to repeat itself. So the song could also be interpreted as a commentary on the KMT's occupation of Taiwan, as well as CCP's attempt to occupy Taiwan.
Kinda underrated band tbh, mor people should check out
@Lost In MPK
This is my 3rd fav band and I'm gonna say one thing: if you wanna give them another listen then I'd suggest 2 songs.
"Broken Jade" if you want something a little bit calmer,
and
"Defenders of the Bu-Tik " for one of my fav songs from them.
They are an amazing band but if it's too much for you guys, I can understand :D
we shall check out those songs are well.. thanks 😊
@@LostinMPK Did you?
You guys can check out Funeral by Flesh Juicer, who are a Taiwanese metalcore band that really fucking rock. Thank you guys for being interested in Taiwanese music, it's really uplifting
You can watch the movie Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale to understand the contents of this song
Love chthonic
There's also an accoustic version of this song, which works amazingly well: th-cam.com/video/mXSKtLvK-Vw/w-d-xo.html
Bass player was Doris Yeh she was in FHM(Mens Magazine) before xD
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