Qualla: Tapung Old Fort https://qualla.com/tapung-old-fort en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:19 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/k/tapung-old-fort-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tapung Old Fort https://qualla.com/tapung-old-fort Tapung Old Fort: Introduction https://qualla.com/tapung-old-fort/ Photo credit Yeehonge, CC BY-SA 3.0. The fort is not large. Eight meters long, six meters wide, it sits on top of Mount Lidong in the mountains of Hsinchu County as if gripping the peak — which, in a sense, was always the point. The Tapung Old Fort was built in 1912 at the culmination of a brutal military campaign against the Atayal people who had lived in these mountains for generations before Japanese colonial rule arrived. It was built by an occupying power, contested by the people it was meant to control, and it survives today as a ruin that holds two histories at once: the history of those who built it, and the history of those who fought back.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/k/tapung-old-fort-wp/wsqk-tapung-old-fort-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tapung Old Fort: The Treaty That Changed Everything https://qualla.com/tapung-old-fort/ Photo credit Yeehonge, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1895, the First Sino-Japanese War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, under which the Qing government ceded Taiwan to Japan. For the lowland Han population of Taiwan, the transition brought its own upheavals. For the Indigenous peoples of the mountains — inclu...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/k/tapung-old-fort-wp/wsqk-tapung-old-fort-the-treaty-that-changed-everything.mp3 0:06 2 full Tapung Old Fort: Five Years of Campaigns https://qualla.com/tapung-old-fort/ Photo credit Yeehonge, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 11 April 1906, Sakuma Samata became Governor-General of Taiwan. He moved quickly. Within months, he launched what would become a five-year military campaign directed primarily at the Indigenous peoples of the mountains — the campaign the colonial government called 'aboriginal ...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/k/tapung-old-fort-wp/wsqk-tapung-old-fort-five-years-of-campaigns.mp3 0:06 3 full Tapung Old Fort: The Fort on the Mountain https://qualla.com/tapung-old-fort/ Photo credit Yeehonge, CC BY-SA 3.0. Construction of the fort began in 1912, the year after the fighting on Mount Lidong. Its purpose was blunt: to hold ground that had been taken at great cost and to serve as a garrison point from which Japanese military and police power could project into the surrounding mountains...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/k/tapung-old-fort-wp/wsqk-tapung-old-fort-the-fort-on-the-mountain.mp3 0:06 4 full Tapung Old Fort: The Counter-Attack https://qualla.com/tapung-old-fort/ Photo credit Yeehonge, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Atayal resistance did not end when the fort was built. Later in 1912, two Atayal tribes joined forces and attacked the fort during a typhoon — using the cover of the storm and the disruption it caused to press their assault. The fort fell. It was a significant moment: a small...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/k/tapung-old-fort-wp/wsqk-tapung-old-fort-the-counter-attack.mp3 0:06 5 full Tapung Old Fort: What Remains on Mount Lidong https://qualla.com/tapung-old-fort/ Photo credit Yeehonge, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Tapung Old Fort — also called the Mount Lidong Fort — survives today as a historical site in Jianshi Township. The walls still stand, the loopholes still visible in the concrete and clay. It sits at roughly 24.693°N, 121.303°E, on a mountain summit reached by trail through th...

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