====== Researching Historical Background of Elderly Interviewee ======

By [[yiler-huang| Yiler Huang]]

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//the picture of Shuangkeng in Google Map//

The pictures of Shuangkeng district in Google Map is shown above. The area looked rural, and there are not much streets or roads. According to Wikipedia, the pricing standard got higher because the resources were all used in wars at that time. Therefore, it was hard for people to live a luxury life. The cities at that time were not developed very well, or they were bombed during the war.

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//The picture of a Taiwanese farmer//

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//This is the table of the crop produced in 1937//

After 1945, the Taiwanese government revised the farming industry that was greatly damaged after World War 2. Therefore, the farming industry in Taiwan improved at that time. The government also came out with laws about owner ships of lands, and rules that helped to give laborers in farms a better treatment. There were about one third of lands in Taiwan are used for farming in 1956, and the most farmed crops are rice and sugar cane.


According to the author's research, Taiwan's education for females was actually becoming common because Japanese government in 1898 cerated a female educational department in their official school Kokugo gakkou(the National Taipei University of Education now). After that, females got a lot more chances to go to school than before. 

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//This is the picture of Kokugo gakko at that period of time//

After 1896, Kokugo gakko started providing hand make classes for females to study in and created a place for girls to study, because people at that time wanted to improved the household skills of females. The system develop from elementary school to middle school and high school, and made educations for females become more common after 1930. After 1943, all Taiwanese people had the responsibility of finish studying elementary school.

<color #00a2e8>**(missing information from young age to adult)**</color>

鄔蘇智慧's second brother brought them away from their father because they thought he wasn't a responsible father. <color #00a2e8>**(where did they go)**</color> 
<color #00a2e8>**(missing the part between 20 years old to now)**</color>

==== References ====

https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/1960%E5%B9%B4%E4%BB%A3%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3

https://www.google.com/maps/place/231%E6%96%B0%E5%8C%97%E5%B8%82%E6%96%B0%E5%BA%97%E5%8D%80%E9%9B%99%E5%9D%91/@24.9491113,121.5807277,16.54z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x346801b2b688deb1:0xd72e2ca11d75ce20!8m2!3d24.949045!4d121.582253

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E5%8F%B2

https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E7%B8%BD%E7%9D%A3%E5%BA%9C%E5%9C%8B%E8%AA%9E%E5%AD%B8%E6%A0%A1

https://tme.ncl.edu.tw/tw/%E7%B6%93%E6%BF%9F%E7%99%BC%E5%B1%95%E7%AF%87

https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/1945%E5%B9%B4%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F20677&psig=AOvVaw1b3uwc6BRh3Q3BHWGMJ06s&ust=1668579920399000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCOCmut3Gr_sCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAc

https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E8%BE%B2%E6%A5%AD

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