228 Peace Memorial Park

228 Peace Memorial Park is a historic site and municipal park located at 3 Ketagalan Boulevard, Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan. The park contains memorials to victims of the 228 Incident of 1947, including the Taipei 228 Memorial that stands at the center of the park and the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum, housed at the site of a former radio station that operated under Japanese and Kuomintang rule. The National Taiwan Museum stands at the park's north entrance. The park also has a bandshell and exercise areas.

History

The park was originally established in 1900 as Taihoku Park (Шаблон:CJKV) during the Japanese colonial period, on former temple grounds. It was the first European-style urban park in Taiwan, placed on the grounds of the Colonial Governor's Office (today's Presidential Office Building).

In 1930, Taiwan's Japanese authorities established a radio station at the site. The station initially housed the Taipei Broadcasting Bureau, an arm of the Government-General Propaganda Bureau's Information Office. The following year, the Taiwan Broadcast Association was formed to handle island-wide broadcasts. The Taihoku Park radio station became the center of broadcast activity for the Association.

The park was renamed Taipei New Park in 1945 by the Kuomintang authorities who replaced the Japanese after World War II in 1945. They renamed the broadcasting agency the Taiwan Broadcasting Company. The station became the primary broadcast organ of the Kuomintang government and military.

In 1947, a group of protesters, angry over a brutal police action against Taiwanese civilians, took over the station and used it to broadcast accusations against the Kuomintang government. The action formed part of a chain of events now referred to as the 228 Incident. A subsequent, more severe crackdown by the Nationalist government restored the station to Kuomintang control and ushered in Taiwan's period of White Terror. Two years later, the Kuomintang lost ground in the Chinese Civil War and its leaders retreated to Taiwan. Trying to establish themselves as China's true national government in exile, they renamed the bureau the Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC).

The Taipei City government took over operation of the radio station building when the BCC moved in 1972. City officials made it the site of the Taipei City Government Parks and Street Lights Office.

As Taiwan entered its modern democracy period in the 1990s, President Lee Teng-hui offered an official apology in 1995 and invited free discussion of Taiwan's past. For the first time the 228 Incident of 1947 was officially acknowledged and its significance openly debated. In 1996, the Taipei City Government designated the former radio station building a historical site. Two years later, the building was made the home of the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum and the park was rededicated as 228 Peace Memorial Park.

The 228 Massacre Monument was designed by Taiwanese architect Cheng Tsu-tsai (Шаблон:Zh, aka Deh Tzu-tsai or TT Deh), who was convicted of attempted murder in 1971 following a 1970 assassination attempt on Chiang Ching-kuo. After serving his sentence, he was imprisoned for illegal entry to Taiwan in 1991 and filed his design entry from prison. The Monument is inscribed with an exhortation for peace and unity.

Шаблон:Quotation

Cultural references

  • The park provides a primary setting for Pai Hsien-yung's renowned novel Crystal Boys.

Transportation

The nearest Taipei Metro station is National Taiwan University Hospital Station.

See also

  • 228 Incident
  • List of parks in Taiwan
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Elise ❥
14 December 2014
Not just a boring park. Bring nuts (ONLY nuts or dried fruits pls!) and squirrels actually eat them from your hands! Lovely experience.
Taezar .
31 October 2015
Great place to take a break from the heat. Catches a good breeze here and the memorial is well worth the visit
P C
19 April 2016
Peaceful respite from the busy city. Near Xi Men Ting shopping district. Buy breakfast takeaway from nearby shops n go there for a quiet picnic. Public toilets available
Johan Twelli
24 April 2014
I like this park, it's nice if you have been walking around in the area, and want to sit down for a while. It's also conveniently accessible by MRT. NTU Hospital Stn right at the park's entrance.
Nao
6 April 2019
日本統治時代に作られた台湾で最も古い西欧式公園。公園の中央には1947.2.28に起きた事件の経緯と顛末が刻まれた大きな二二八記念碑が建ち、歴史を感じられる公園です。時間が許せばぜひとも国立台湾博物館にも立ち寄ることをお勧めします。
のうや くん
1 March 2017
総督府により台北新公園として整備された、ごく初期の近代的な公園の一つ。敷地内には二二八事件で重要な役割を果たしたラジオ放送局の建物(現二二八和平紀念館)や、JFAK→臺灣廣播電台のラジオ放送塔(放送亭)も残されている。
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