We want to cooperate with the Government sanitary system to improve drainage and disposal of sewage and a pure water supply to help the people live in a good hygienic, healthy condition. Indigenous Rights in Taiwan and the Smangus Case. MA diss. These gross over-generalizations based on stereotypes reduce the people of Orchid Island to a pitiful collection of symptoms. But when do aid and charitable organizations traverse the boundaries of rights movements? In doing so, this chapter will contribute to an expanding literature on social and civil movements in Taiwan by highlighting the local structures namely church-based voluntary organizations upon which Christian Aid relied heavily in the absence of any formal representatives.
In turn, these local experts give a wider nuance to the social and political issues of the period. As an organization, the origins of Christian Aid a faith-based anti-poverty charity based in the UK lie in the reconstruction efforts of post-war Europe.
In , three years after the end of the Second World War, the organization regrouped under the title: Inter-Church Aid and Refugee Service and its focus shifted towards global poverty. Secondly, the decade became a critical juncture in Taiwan's political history.
Other key events included the death of Chiang Kai-shek and the transfer of power to his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, in and respectively and in the passing of the Taiwan Relations Act in , as well as the Kaohsiung Incident. Finally, by examining this period in the social history of Taiwan it is possible to identify subtle similarities between the civil movements of the past two decades and the regional screening movements carried out by Christian Aid in the s.
This approach allows a focus on the details of the individuals involved in their everyday lives and it is here that the social structures of these predominately church-based social movements and their ideologies interact. Only on this level is it possible to see how the movement was put into practice and how it was affected by political change. The last two decades in Taiwan have seen a remarkable transformation in civic and social movements.
Suffice it to say that many areas that specific social movements address do have a direct link to democratization. And although they had different tenets, all used mass demonstrations to pressure government. Journal of Asian Studies ; Weakened State and Social Movement: The paradox of Taiwanese environmental politics after the power transfer. Journal of Contemporary China.
Before engaging with the social movements of the last two decades, it is important to clarify certain phrasing. Different academic disciplines emphasize a variety of empirical research with differing theoretical analyses.
The present drive to understand social and civic movements in Taiwan comes largely from the energetic behavior of the Sunflower Student Movement taiyanghua xueyun Sun Flower Movement.
This was previously most notable in the demonstrations in Dapu Tai Po and Huaguang, both of which involved many of the same student members who were found occupying the lifayuan. On 28 June , Liu Cheng-hung Miaoli County Commissioner gave an evacuation order for farmland in Dapu village without notifying the resident farmers. On 3 August, a 73 year-old farmer, Mrs. Chu Feng-min committed suicide by drinking herbicide.
Grassroots and student protests against land takeovers took place again in following forced evictions and demolition of houses at the Huaguang Community in Taipei. Cole aptly sums up the background to the protest in his blog The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato: "To make a long story short, through [sic] some of the residents of Huaguang have lived there for more than half a century, the land reportedly belongs to the central government, which means that they have been occupying it illegally.
Although previous administrations had chosen not to enforce the law, the Ma Ying-jeou government earlier this year decided it could no longer wait and moved in swiftly, presumably because of the tremendous pressure it must have been receiving from land developers. Many of the residents are in their eighties and of ill health; some are not entitled to social assistance and most cannot afford to pay the rent in the limited social housing made available, on a priority basis to them.
The community is broken, with old friends losing their homes and friends, as they are dispersed in places as far away as Nangang and Wanfang. Government and Politics in Taiwan. London: Routledge, Migration to and From Taiwan. London: Routledge; One notable feature of the Huaguang community protests is that the evicted residents were part of a last remaining mainlander refugee community in Taipei. In addition, over the past four to five years, Taiwan has witnessed a massive increase in conservationist advocacy.
The event was repeated the following year with similar numbers and was also attended by scores of indigenous protesters demanding immediate removal of nuclear waste stored on Orchid Island. In the Environmental Protection Administration, EPA huanjingbaohu shu Environmental Protection Agency managed to halt its construction on the grounds that it would damage the local ecosystem. Charity is the opium of the privileged: [12] christian aid and its local systems.
In the absence of a formal delegation, Christian Aid sponsored the efforts of local voluntary structures. On 3 November , Mr. What was more, he confirmed an interest in the Hsiu-lin [Xiulin] Mountain Community Development Project, but since Christian Aid was already funding two other community-led projects in Taiwan, they would on this occasion be unable to assist. City and Planning. Taiwan since Martial Law. Improving the Environment in Rashah February The Xuilin project proposed by TCS was inaugurated in March as a self-help cooperative project to improve the socio-economic status of local people in the villages close to Taroko Gorge.
The project was divided into 12 sections with activities ranging from sewing classes, insect control, farm produce processing, health education, prenatal care and first-aid courses. On 11 March , Miss Jenny Chen received a correspondence from Celia Williams, the administrative assistant to the deputy director of Christian Aid regarding Strong Arm protein biscuits. The primary initiative thus taken by the UK charity was the provision of a bulk supply of protein biscuits and on 2 September , sixty-three cases of biscuits arrived in Keelung.
One major component of any charitable aid is the distribution of funds for the purpose of improving health. The situation in Taiwan in the s was no exception. The TCS in early began the construction of a rehabilitation center for Blackfoot sufferers. Blackfoot disease BFD was an endemic peripheral vascular disease caused by drinking arsenic-contaminated groundwater. Wang King-ho had worked tirelessly to abate the disease among patients around Beimen, Xuejia, Budai and Yizhu.
After Dr. Wang's two-years as a surgeon at Ohkubo Hospital in Tokyo, the couple moved back to Taiwan during the height of the Pacific War in order to look after his sick mother. Hsieh Wei [Xie Wei] and Mrs. Lilian Dickson founder of the Mustard Seed Mission: a medical and social-service mission, established in , to extend mission work to the mountainous and remote regions of Taiwan.
Together they began work in the treatment of BFD. Cexie wangjinhe: taiwan wujiaobinghuan zhi fu de shengming diandi , [ Sketching Wang King-ho: Life of the father of the Taiwanese black-foot disease patients ].
Taipei: Grass Roots Press, The Christian Aid sponsored service broadened to include other social welfare projects including family planning and a mothers' club. The latter provided a twice-weekly meeting to discuss infant care, hygiene and cooking. Aside from its medical services, Pu-Tai in their mission statement provided the following account: "Pu Tai Chen of Chia Yi Hsien [Chiayi County] is generally known as the area where most of the black foot patients live.
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