heavy protest

Along the case of Korea, or much better than Korea, president election in Taiwan was also resulted as a change of regime. Not yet inaugurated, the new government is regarded as "pro" China while the former one is believed as "con." In other words, ruffly classifying, DPP is pro independence, and KMT is not.

Of course there are so many relating factors and matters to be considered. And I may not know much enough about Taiwan. I just see many people withdrew their support with disappointment. Moreover, many young people are not so much interested in heavy agenda such as independence disregarding what "dependence" really means.

Recently I got to know one Taiwanese singing group. According to my friend, they are more famous abroad than in Taiwan. Whatever, they were active and loud provokers for independence of This country. Actually, that group is a heavy metal band. Their costume looks even death or Gothic.
















This is an image of their T-shirt on sale from their website. I lost the address so far. I'll post it when I find it again. The letters in back side means "reversal." And the second letter is purposely printed in the reverse direction. It should be "轉," but reversed as we see.

The number gives me a big impression. It is the number of vote for DPP in the last election. The difference was around two million, but they see hope from five million.

I don't know what will happen in Taiwan after Beijing Olympic. But I think I know what some people will do in Taiwan. That number may not be important indeed. It is important that they will not surrender as long as they are "proud of" it. Yes.

Traces of "first" Christianity in Taiwan

I visited Changrong senior high school on Monday. There is an interesting museum of school's history as well as many national treasures (I believe) of Taiwan. For example, I found the first printer of this country which had used in this school for Christian missionary work.

This school was one of the first modern educational institution in Taiwan established in late 19th century. Some missionaries from Western Churches had devoted their lives to the mission in this country. It was 1860s here and not so earlier than when the first missionaries came to Korea too.

From 長榮高中

The earlier missionaries had made great efforts to help local context even though historically many of them were reported and blamed their (un)conscious leading of imperialism to Asia and Africa. They not only established hospitals and schools, but also devoted themselves to help people in fact.

The other exciting thing was a real rubbing copy拓本 of 大秦景?流行中國碑. Let me explain what it is shortly. That is a stone monument established in C.E.781 at Changan長安(Now it is called as 西安), the capital of Tang dynasty. It indicates that one of the earliest sect of Christanity has arrived to China at least 8th century. Historically, it is so important that I was really excited to find out the copy there. The title could be translated ruffly as "monument of the spread roman Chrisanity in China"(actually the bearers of Christianity were Nestorian missionaries, accused and executed as an heretic by Western Catholic in Rome).

From 長榮高中

One of the first three missionaries in Taiwan also had those sort of conviction and came to Taiwan as well as Korea. In result, I became a Christian after 100 years. Well, I have read many books about history and interpretations about the arrival of Christianity in Asian countries. I need to feel and get to know much more about what really brought the missionaries to unknown and 'dangerous' places, and what really made Asian people, just like my ancestors, converted their faith.