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@Asianometry Do you know anything about how much contact the Taiwanese had with people living outside of Taiwan, and how easy/difficult it was to travel in and out of Taiwan (including to Mainland Japan)? I also think that it would be interesting to research the history of Taiwanese refugees who fled to Mainland China and other regions during the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan, and during the beginning of Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan. It will also be interesting to research the relationship between Taiwanese and Japanese people during the Colonial Period.
I live in Australia, and I'm somewhat unique because I'm a fourth-generation Chinese Australian. I told my art teacher this one time and she told me that it's quite common, even though I've never personally met any other people who are anything more than 3rd-gen Chinese Australian, and this is even the case though I attend a high school which is (coincidentally) roughly 60% ethnically-Chinese. Whilst Australia only abolished the White Australia Policy back in 1973, Chinese were still migrating less frequently to Australia before that time, and large Chinese migrations to Australia occurred historically, during the Victorian Gold Rush of the 1850s-1860s, and also during the latter half of the Chinese Civil War.
However, I'm not descended from these types of Chinese immigrants. Instead, through my maternal grandmother, I'm descended from Chinese people originating from Taiwan who were brought to Australia from Indonesia as Japanese Prisoners-of-War. My great great grandfather had allegedly fled Taiwan in 1895 following the Japanese Invasion, choosing to migrate to Java, Dutch Indonesia as a refugee. In 1936, my great great grandfather travelled back to Taiwan in order to retrieve a wife for his son, my great grandmother, and he brought her back to Java. My great grandmother, who was allegedly a distant relative of my great grandfather, was born and raised in Japanese Taiwan, and she had never formally lost her Japanese/Taiwanese nationality even whilst living in Indonesia; my grandmother has explained to me that both of her parents were Stateless, though I'm not so sure that my grandmother even has access to reliable records of nationality.
In December 1941, my great grandparents and my great great grandparents living in Indonesia were arrested by the Dutch Indonesian Government and were deported to Australia for temporary internment during WWII, lasting until March 1946. During their internment in Australia, my grandmother was born here, receiving an Australian birth certificate, essentially signifying Australian citizenship. My great grandfather was apparently an intelligent man; he knew how to speak English, and he taught English whilst living in the camp; he probably even taught some Japanese people. However, my family hated the Japanese, I've been told, considering the Japanese to be the enemy, and being hostile to them even though many had been living outside of Japan for decades.
My great grandparents and other Taiwanese in the internment camp for Japanese civilians wrote numerous letters to the Chinese consulate (presumably in Melbourne) to be repatriated to China, rather than Japan. Of course, with the realisation that Taiwan was now under Chinese control, rather than Japanese, my family begged to be returned to Taiwan Province. A Japanese ship called the "Yoizuki", with a Japanese captain, came to Sydney to pick up the Japanese and Taiwanese internees and repatriate them to their respective homelands. This caused panic amongst the Taiwanese, and one of my relatives is quoted as (roughly) saying to a prison guard "If they send me to Japan, please give me your revolver so I can shoot myself in the head."
My family was successfully repatriated to Taiwan, Republic of China, sometime during mid-1946. They continued to live in Taiwan for several years, but they eventually abandoned the island in 1952, for reasons which are as of yet unknown to me. My grandmother then spent the rest of her young life living in Indonesia, with her parents having chosen to return to this country. Later, my grandmother traveled to Mainland China to study (which is where my great grandfather learnt English), and then she traveled to Hong Kong, and finally, she returned to Australia in 1978, bringing her husband and daughter with her; she had always possessed Australian citizenship.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatura
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Yoizuki
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