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Ghastly Heritage of NTU’s Shuiyuan Campus: White Terror Stories in Autopsy Room

Ghastly Heritage of NTU’s Shuiyuan Campus: White Terror Stories in Autopsy Room

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Between 1949 and 1999, the National Defense Medical Center was located around what is now the Shuiyuan Campus of National Taiwan University. Ghastly rumors about the site circulated among present-day college students. Why was the site haunted and by whom? What might be the ghosts’ unfulfilled wishes? How have fictions and oral narratives about the White Terror in Taiwan contributed to a haunted remembering of the site? And how should we reckon with the ghastly heritage of NTU’s Shuiyuan Campus and beyond?

When Did Taiwan Begin Wearing Masks? The Japanese Period

When Did Taiwan Begin Wearing Masks? The Japanese Period

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During COVID-19, exceptional public health measures were adopted by nations to secure their populations from disease and death. In imperial Japan, practices and discourses of public health played an equally important role in transforming the nation into a civilizing power fit to survive in the modern world. What can we learn from the practice of mask-wearing in colonial Taiwan?