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  1. Oct 2024
    1. it was the first year in which the main newspaper considered the route to be newsworthy

      critical reading of the source

    2. enlisting the help of merchant associations to fund the festival and select dramatic and musical troupes to enliven the proceedings

      Local elite-quotidian collaboration against colonial machinery

    1. The temples would distribute the burden of planning and cost, with a different one playing the lead organizing role each year

      Evidence of syncretism? I cannot think of an instance where this may be permissible in Abrahamic religions

    2. city government had insisted on sending a representative to planning sessions for the Chenghuang festival

      Intrusive Japanese colonial government interference in local festival

    1. Shortly before embarking on a mission to attack and control indigenous people near Hualian in 1915

      For Japanese bidding? Who were these residents?