Local Community

The Muden Village Incident was a complicated event in history, most people thought that it happened just because Taiwan's original resident are savage. Is it true?
In 1871, 69 seamen from Miyako Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago or Orkinawa were shipwrecked along Taiwan's coast and 66 survivors floated to Bayao Bay (today's Jioupeng), where 54 of them were subsequently killed by local Aborigines upon stumbling into Mudan Village, the rest 12 people were sent back to Japan. In 1874, Japanese army deployed an expeditionary force to Taiwan on the pretext of protecting Okinawas, setting into motion the series of events which go by the name "Mudan Village Incident".
"Mudan Village Incident" explained Japan's ambition on invading Taiwan and reminded Ching Court to strengthen Taiwan's defenses. Therefore, Shen Bao Jhen, the minister of shipping affairs in Fukien Province, was sent to Taiwan to enhance matters pertaining to defense. Awalled town was built nearby in 1875, and it was named Hengchun.
Now, we try to investigate the beginning and subsequent development of Mudan Village Incident by visiting the historical landmarks which the seamen from Miyako Island, Taiwan's original resident, the Japanese military forces, and Ching government left behind. Finally, we want to find the actual state of this affair; and to prove the aborigines were guiltless.

Project Description

The procedures of our study are following:
1. Collecting information of Mudan Village Incident from documents, books, Internet, etc.
2. Interviewing the grand old men, experts, researcher and local people.
3. During the study, we will find more questions and answers.
4. Organizing the informations we got systematically.
5. having a meeting to discuss our works.
6. start to make our website
7. Make a presentation in the class

Our Internet environment

Our school is located in the faraway country. All computer hardware facilities are not sufficient. There is a computer classroom in our school. It just enough for us to do our study, reach information, edit our acticles, trim the photos, design the wibesite, etc.. We know not much about the internet environment and computer skill when beginning. Now we get more familiar with how to get information from internet and how to fisnish our work. We have to thanks our teachers for their instruction. As the facilities sre not easy to get, we treasure any equipment we have and any chance we have. We try our best to finish the project and attend the International Schools CyberFair. We Learn and Unite!

Problems We Had To Overcome

1.It's a big challenge for us to accomplish the whole project by ourselves. We never do this before.
2.We don’t have the abilities to use computer technical tools skillfully.
3.How to make the appropriate schedule is quite difficult.
4.How to choose the useful informations from a huge pile of references.
5.Make the dates with who we want to interview.
6.Put the materials to our web site properly.
7.Translate all our work to English is most difficult part for us.

Although such a adventure are waiting for us, we will try our best to overcome it.

Reflections

We learn a lots form this project. We recognize how the city name of  "HengChun" come from. We know the fact of "Mudan Incident". We take a look of whole Mudan Incident from the Ryukyu seamen's viewpoint, Japanese viewpoint, Ch'ing viewpoint, and aboriginal viewpoint. It's not just the boring content of our textbook. It's vivid for us! How important the event is, it's the key point for the development of modern Taiwan. It’s the beginning for the Taiwan Aboriginal to fight and protect their own homeland. At the end of our study, we review the International Conference for Retrospection of the 130 Years of Mudan Incident in 2004,and the trip of Lin Jiesi (林傑西), mayor of Mudan Township, lead 10 descendants of victims in the Mudan Village Incident, to Okinawa on June 15 to 19.2005. The encounter aims to reach reconciliation and symbiosis. It's warm, touched and meaningful. Return the truth of history, and clarify the misunderstanding, and spread the love. That's the real value why we learn history.