Qualla: Mudan Incident https://qualla.com/mudan-incident en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Mudan Incident https://qualla.com/mudan-incident Mudan Incident: Introduction https://qualla.com/mudan-incident/ On December 12, 1871, a typhoon caught four Ryukyuan ships that had left Okinawa twelve days earlier, homebound for Miyako Island and the Yaeyama Islands. One ship was lost entirely. Another reached Taiwan's west coast and eventually made it home with official help. A third — carrying men from Miyako Island — was driven aground on Taiwan's southeastern shore. The sailors who survived the wreck found themselves in territory they did not know, among people whose language they could not speak. What followed cost fifty-four of them their lives and set in motion a chain of diplomatic and military events that would determine the fate of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the borders of Taiwan, and the reach of the Japanese empire.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/y/mudan-incident-wp/wevy-mudan-incident-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mudan Incident: The Wreck and What Followed https://qualla.com/mudan-incident/ The Miyako Island survivors came ashore on Taiwan's southeastern coast and moved inland, entering territory controlled by the Paiwan, one of Taiwan's indigenous peoples. They found shelter with a seventy-three-year-old Hakka trader named Deng Tianbao. The Paiwan men found them th...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/y/mudan-incident-wp/wevy-mudan-incident-the-wreck-and-what-followed.mp3 0:06 2 full Mudan Incident: What the Paiwan Said https://qualla.com/mudan-incident/ The causes of the killings have been discussed for more than 150 years and have never been fully resolved. One account, recorded from Lianes Punanang, a Mudan local with Paiwan heritage, describes sixty-six men entering the village of Kuskus without understanding the territory th...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/y/mudan-incident-wp/wevy-mudan-incident-what-the-paiwan-said.mp3 0:06 3 full Mudan Incident: The Diplomacy of the Dead https://qualla.com/mudan-incident/ King Shō Tai of the Ryukyu Kingdom did not ask Japan for help. He sent a reward to Chinese officials in Fuzhou for returning his twelve surviving subjects and left it there. The Ryukyu Kingdom was a small, independent state that had managed its relationships carefully for centuri...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/y/mudan-incident-wp/wevy-mudan-incident-the-diplomacy-of-the-dead.mp3 0:06 4 full Mudan Incident: The Expedition of 1874 https://qualla.com/mudan-incident/ In May 1874, approximately 3,600 Japanese troops landed on the southern tip of Taiwan. The stated purpose was to punish the Paiwan for the killing of the Ryukyuan sailors. The actual geopolitical purpose was to test the limits of Qing sovereignty over Taiwan and to establish Japa...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/y/mudan-incident-wp/wevy-mudan-incident-the-expedition-of-1874.mp3 0:06 5 full Mudan Incident: What Was Left https://qualla.com/mudan-incident/ Professor Matayoshi Seikiyo, writing about the incident's legacy, argued that it produced two interlocking outcomes: it resolved the question of Ryukyuan sovereignty in Japan's favor, and it served as the first military step toward Japan's eventual colonization of Taiwan in 1895....

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