Figure 1.--Here we see what looks like a secondary school on Taiwan, at the time Formosa, during the Japanbese colonial era. The photogrsph is undated, but looks like the 1920s. The schools were all taught in Japanese. Notice the mirror, apprently so the students could check their appearance.

We know nothing about Taiwanese schools until the modern era. The indugenous poulation was Austronesian. Overtime the Chinese began populating the islandvand reolacing the indigenous popukation which is today a tiny part of the popukation. China historically paid little attention to Taiawan. Tge island was controlled by Portugal , the Nererkands and porates before China firmally seized the isaland (18th century). We know nothing about the schools during this early period. Presumably the Chinese established some schools, the same type of elite education that existed on the Mainland. Japan after the Meiji Restoration (1869) began to nbuik a modern education system. Japan seized Taiwan in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95). The Jaoan began to build a modern education system on Taiwan. Japanese rule was represive, but not as brutal as in Korea. It also included prograns to modernize the islands. This included both building infrastructure and developing a public school system. Until the Japanese invasion, Taiwn which the Japanese called Formosa had no public schools. Japan introduced the first modern schools to the island and the pattern was similar to that of the adminintration of Korea. The schools were taught in Japanese. Students were not allowed to speak in Taiwanese or Chinese. After World war II,m unlike Koirea, Taiwan was no mmade independent, but returned to China (1945). When China took control after World War II, Taiwan unlike most of China had a modern eduction system. There was some resistance to the Chinese, but Nationalist China under Chaing Kai-shek and the KMI maintained control by force. Over time Taiwan made a transitiin to a modern democratic society. The school system folloed that transition, from a forum for KMI prppaganda to a modern open school system. Taiwan tofay has one of tge finest public education systems in the world.

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