Tapani incident

Tapani Incident Taiwanese captured after the Tapani Incident being taken from the Tainan jail to court Date 1915 Location Taiwan Result Japanese victory Belligerents Han Taiwanese Taiwanese aborigines  Empire of Japan Commanders and leaders Yu Qingfang Strength 1,413[1][2]

Tapani incident
Chinese	噍吧哖事件
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiaòbānián Shìjìan Wade–Giles Chiao^4-pa^1-nien^2 Shih^4-chien^4 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Ta-pa-nî sū-kiāⁿ
Alternative name
Traditional Chinese	西來庵事件
Simplified Chinese	西来庵事件
Literal meaning	Xilai Temple Incident
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xīlaí'ān Shìjìan Wade–Giles Hsi^1-lai^2-an^1 Shih^4-chien^4
Alternative name
Chinese	玉井事件
Literal meaning	Yujing Incident
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yùjǐng Shìjìan Wade–Giles Yü^4-ching^3 Shih^4-chien^4

The Tapani incident^[3] in 1915 was one of the biggest armed uprisings^[4] by Taiwanese Han and Aboriginals against Japanese rule in Taiwan. Alternative names used to refer to the incident include the Xilai Temple Incident (Japanese: 西来庵事件 Hepburn: Seirai-an jiken, simplified Chinese: 西来庵事件; traditional Chinese: 西來庵事件) after the Xilai Temple (西來庵) in Tainan, where the revolt began, the Chiaopanien Incident ("Chiaopanien" is the romanized Taiwanese Hokkien pronunciation of 噍吧哖 'Tapani') and the Yu Qingfang Incident after the leader Yu Qingfang.^[5]

Revolt

Multiple Japanese police stations were stormed by Aboriginal and Han Chinese fighters under Chiang Ting (Jiang Ding) and Yü Ch'ing-fang (Yu Qingfang).^[6]

Consequences

Modern Taiwanese historiography attempts to portray the Tapani Incident as a nationalist uprising either from a Chinese (unification) or Taiwanese (independence) perspective. Japanese colonial historiography attempted to portray the incident as a large scale instance of banditry led by criminal elements. However, the Tapani Incident differs from other uprisings in Taiwan's history because of its elements of millenarianism and folk religion, which enabled Yu Qingfang to raise a significant armed force whose members believed themselves to be invulnerable to modern weaponry.^[7]

The similarities between the rhetoric of the leaders of the Tapani uprising and the Righteous Harmony Society of the recent Boxer Rebellion in China were not lost on Japanese colonial authorities, and subsequently, the colonial government paid more attention to popular religion and took steps to improve on colonial administration in southern Taiwan.

The aboriginals carried on with violent armed struggle against the Japanese while Han Chinese violent opposition stopped after Tapani.^[8]

See also

• Wushe Incident

Notes

1. Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West. M.E. Sharpe. 2009. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-0-7656-4189-2.
2. Shih-Shan Henry Tsai (18 December 2014). Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West: Historical Encounters with the East and the West. Taylor & Francis. pp. –. ISBN 978-1-317-46516-4.
3. http://www.academia.edu/10986929/Taiwan_under_Japanese_Rule._Showpiece_of_a_Model_Colony_Historiographical_Tendencies_in_Narrating_Colonialism._In_History_Compass._2014_online_
4. International Business Publications, USA (3 March 2012). Taiwan Country Study Guide: Strategic Information and Developments. Int'l Business Publications. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-1-4387-7570-8.
5. Shih-shan Henry Tsai (2 September 2005). Lee Teng-Hui and Taiwan's Quest for Identity. Springer. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-1-4039-7717-5.
6. Governmentality and Its Consequences in Colonial Taiwan: A Case Study of the Ta-pa-ni Incident
7. Katz, Paul R. (2005). When Valleys Turned Blood Red: The Tapani Incident in Colonial Taiwan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 110. ISBN 9780824829155.
8. Steven Crook (5 June 2014). Taiwan. Bradt Travel Guides. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-1-84162-497-6.

References

• Katz, Paul R. (2 March 2007). "Governmentality and Its Consequences in Colonial Taiwan: A Case Study of the Ta-pa-ni Incident of 1915". The Journal of Asian Studies 64 (02): 387–424. doi:10.1017/s0021911805000823.

External links

• Governmentality and Its Consequences in Colonial Taiwan: A Case Study of the Ta-pa-ni Incident
• When Valleys Turned Blood Red: The Ta-pa-ni Incident in Colonial Taiwan