Sun Yat-sen , Founding Father of Modern China and ROC (Taiwan)

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Sun Yat-sen , Founding Father of Modern China and ROC (Taiwan)

Sun Yat-sen - Wikipedia

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Republic of China （Taiwan)'s parliment

 

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Portraits of Sun Yat-sen, Beijing Tiananmen Square

 

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Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum in Nanjing city

 

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Sun Yat-sen's cenotaph, Beijing, Fragrant Hills， Sun Yat-sen's died in Beijing in 1925 and his body was kept in a temple in Beijing's Fragrant hills for 4 years before moved to Nanjing.

 

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Chinese war heros shrine in Taipei, Taiwan Province

Spirit tablet of the Chinese fallen heros of the Chinese expeditionary force during WW2 fighting the Japanese in Myanmar was being taken into the shrine

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Many people who are the descendants of the Chinese anti foreign aggression war heros go to the shrine in Taiwan to pay respect to their ancestors who have a spirit tablet in it.

 

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Hats off to the Chinese anti Japanese war heros whose souls rest in peace in the Chinese war heros shrine in Taiwan

 

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There's no way that Taiwan can sever their Chinese roots.

Beijing Tsinghua university vs Taiwan Tsinghua university

Beijing Forbidden City vs Taiwan Forbidden city

 

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Taiwan talk show girl ridicules Taiwan Tsinghua university

"People WOW Beijing Tsinghua university, what's there to WOW about mediocre Taiwan's Tsinghua University?" Taiwan hostess

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As the defeated KMT flees to Taiwan, they strip China of liquid assets including gold, silver, and the country's dollar reserves.

Chiang Kai-shek's mission to take gold from China was held secretly because, according to Wu Sing-yung, the entire mission was operated by Chiang himself. Only Chiang and Wu's father, who was the head of Military Finance for the KMT government, knew about the expenditure and moving of gold to Taiwan and almost all orders by Chiang were issued verbally.

Wu stated that even the finance minister had no power over the final expenditure and transfer. The written record was kept as the top military secret by Chiang in the Taipei Presidential Palace and the declassified archives only became available to the public more than 40 years after his death in April 1975. It is a widely held belief that the gold brought to Taiwan was used to lay the foundations for the Taiwanese economy and government.

Some also believe that after six months of the gold operation by Chiang, the New Taiwanese dollar was launched, which replaced the old Taiwanese dollar at a ratio of one to 40,000. It is believed that 800,000 taels of gold were used to stabilize the economy which had been suffering from hyperinflation since 1945.

The KMT also retreated with artifacts kept mostly in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.The National Palace Museum claims that in 1948 when China was going through its Civil War, executive director Chu Chia-hua and others (Wang Shijie, Fu Ssu-nien, Xu Hong-Bao (Chinese: 徐洪宝), Li Ji, and Han Lih-wu) discussed shipping masterpieces to Taiwan for the artifacts' safety. Other institutions, such as the Henan Museum, also evacuated their collections of cultural relics to Taiwan during the war.

Some historians believe that Taiwan is still part of Chinese sovereign territory so relocation is not an issue.

 

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Taiwan's wealth was built up by the whole Chinese population, KMT left nothing to CCP after they left for Taiwan. What CCP took over was just a war torn, deeply impoverished nation.

 

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China is waging a restitution campaign against Taiwan’s Forbidden City treasures​

Louise Benson
5 June 2023

Since 1949, Taipei’s National Palace Museum has housed around 600,000 artefacts and works of art from Beijing’s Forbidden City

Almost 75 years ago, the world’s largest collection of Chinese artefacts and art was moved from Beijing’s Forbidden City to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.

The transference of the artefacts, which numbers more than 600,000, was orchestrated by Chiang Kai-shek, the former leader of China’s ruling nationalist party Kuomintang (KMT), as he escaped Mao Zedong’s communist Red Army in 1949 by fleeing to Taiwan during the Chinese civil war.

Today, China wants the collection back. The artefacts have been housed at Taipei’s National Palace Museum since 1965, but are increasingly at the root of a fomenting dispute between China and Taiwan.

The National Palace Museum’s position is clear. It has unconditionally refused to return any of the items formerly displayed in Beijing. The museum also refuses to loan the artefacts to other countries due to fears they might be seized and repatriated to the Chinese mainland.

The museum, then, can be seen as a microcosm for the intensifying political tensions and historical conflicts that define China’s relationship with its Taiwanese neighbour.

Last October, it emerged that three porcelain pieces in the museum’s collection, worth a total of $66m, had been broken. The museum chose not to officially record the breakages at the time, which led to accusations of a cover-up by senior staff.

The story was seized upon by the Chinese government, which attacked the Taiwan authorities in a state newspaper, saying that only under reunification could these national treasures be fully protected. A cyber attack was also launched. Countless accounts across multiple social media platforms were created, all accusing the Taipei museum of chronically mishandling China’s priceless artefacts.

“In museum work, incidents like this are not very rare because, sometimes, due to the structural composition of the object, or due to age, objects can deteriorate,” said Tsai Chun-Yi, the curator of painting and calligraphy at the National Palace Museum, in a BBC documentary on Taiwan that aired this spring. “I do think [at the museum] we take great care of the cultural heritage passed on to us that belongs to people around the world.”

The cyber attacks take many forms. In March, up to 100,000 high-resolution images of paintings and calligraphy in the collection were leaked online after the museum was subject to an extensive digital heist. The artefacts were then put up for sale, often for less than $1, on Taobao, a Chinese shopping platform.

“We are looking into it and have hired lawyers to raise to Taobao the intellectual properties and damages involved,” the museum’s deputy museum director, Huang Yung-tai, told CNN at the time, explaining that the museum’s private server had been hacked.

“The historical artefacts displayed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, are of utmost importance to China,” says Baoping Li, a lecturer in Chinese archaeology at University College London. The items formed part of the royal collection in the Forbidden City of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911). After the founding of the Republic of China (ROC), in 1925, the Forbidden City in Beijing was turned into the Palace Museum to house the royal collection.