1917 in Taiwan

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See also:	Other events of 1917 History of Taiwan  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1917 in Taiwan, Empire of Japan.

Incumbents

Monarchy

• Emperor: Taisho

Central government of Japan

• Prime Minister: Terauchi Masatake

Taiwan

• Governor-General: Andō Teibi

Events

• 5 January – The deadliest part of the 1916–1917 Nantou earthquakes occurred, registering at 6.2 on the Richter scale with a shallow hypocentre, killing 54 people. ^[1]
• 12 February – Reverend William Campbell returns to China. ^{[2] : 250}
• 24 July – Construction of the Yilan line began. ^{[3] : 107}
• 22 October – Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa and his wife Fusako visited Taiwan. ^{[3] : 108}
• 29 December — The Waseda University baseball team came to Taiwan. ^{[2] : 250}

Births

• 6 January – Koo Chen-fu, businessman, diplomat, and film producer. ^[4]
• 18 January – Wang Yung-ching, businessman.
• 10 February – Chen Ta-ju, lyricist. ^[5]

References

1. 中央氣象局. "Preface". 台灣地區十大災害地震圖集 (A Collection of Images of Ten Great Earthquake Disasters in the Taiwan Region) (PDF) (in Chinese). Central Weather Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
2. 王育德著，黃國彥譯 (October 1999). 《臺灣──苦悶的歷史》 (初版二刷 ed.). 草根出版.
3. 緒方武歲, ed. (1938). 《臺灣大年表》. 臺北市: 緒方武歲/臺北印刷株式會社.
4. Yeh, Lindy (15 April 2002). "The Koo family: a century in Taiwan". Taipei Times. p. 3. Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
5. Tsai, Wen-ting (May 2002). "Taiwanese Pop Will Never Die". Taiwan Panorama. Translated by Smith, Glenn; Mayer, David. Retrieved 10 March 2025. Cited in: Ho, Wai-Chung (December 2007). "Music and cultural politics in Taiwan". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 10 (4): 463–483. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.1025.5929 . doi:10.1177/1367877907083080. S2CID   144602597. and Ho, Wai-Chung (2015). "The production and reproduction of Chinese and Taiwanese identities in Taiwan's popular songs". Social History. 40 (4): 518–537. doi:10.1080/03071022.2015.1076125. JSTOR   24887050.