Chiayi City: Named by an Emperor, Yet Taiwan's Most Easily Overlooked Provincial City

30-second overview: In 1787, the Qianlong Emperor issued an edict renaming "Zhuluo" to "Chiayi"—"to commend its loyalty in defending the city walls"—making it the only city in Taiwan to receive its name directly from an emperor. In 1908, the Japanese erected the world's first Tropic of Cancer marker in a rice paddy 3.3 km southwest of the city. In 1931, the multiethnic KANO baseball team—Han Chinese, Indigenous, and Japanese—from Chiayi Agricultural and Forestry School reached the Koshien semifinals. On March 25, 1947, painter Chen Cheng-po was tied up and shot in front of the train station; his body lay in the street for three days. Today Chiayi City has 260,000 residents, spans 60 square kilometers, has no high-speed rail station, and is a textbook specimen of Taiwan's mid-sized cities. All four nationally significant events took place within these 60 square kilometers.

The Central Fountain: Four Hundred Years at One Spot

If you take the train to Chiayi, walk a hundred meters from the station and you'll see it. The Central Colorful Fountain, where Wenhua Road, Zhongshan Road, Gongming Road, and Guanghua Road intersect in a roundabout, was built during Mayor Xu Shixian's tenure in the 1970s. Its lights change every few minutes, and the tallest water jet reaches 20 meters.¹

Its busiest moment is the night before an election. Every candidate brings supporters to rally around this roundabout, the sounds of gong-and-drum troupes, campaign trucks, and microphones drowning each other out. In other cities, election rallies are usually held at stadiums or plazas. Chiayi people chose a roundabout, because this roundabout has been the center of their city for three hundred years.

During the Qing dynasty, this location was called "Tzaoziwei" (Peach Tail), the terminus of Chiayi's city walls. In 1704 (the 43rd year of the Kangxi reign), County Magistrate Song Yongqing built the Zhuluo city walls here with wooden palisades, establishing four gates—east, south, west, and north—"the earliest city palisade built among the one prefecture and three counties at the time."² The 1906 earthquake under Japanese rule nearly destroyed the old city. The following year, the Japanese carried out urban correction (shikai seibi), straightening the streets into right angles and planning circular plazas. Today's Central Fountain stands at the center of one of those circular plazas.³

Beneath the fountain's water jets lie three layers of history. Han immigrant city walls, Japanese urban correction, and postwar Taiwanese civic plaza. Chiayi people don't often articulate this layering, but every time they walk around this roundabout, they tread over these three hundred years.

Two Months of Siege Bought a Name

What truly etched this city into history was the siege battle of 1786.

That year (the 51st year of the Qianlong reign), Lin Shuangwen's rebellion broke out, and forces from north and south converged to besiege Zhuluo. The city's population—a small settlement of mixed Zhangzhou and Quanzhou immigrants—transformed into a fortress defended by thousands. During the siege, food ran out. Lian Yatang's General History of Taiwan recorded the hardship: "Zhuluo was besieged ever more tightly; with nothing to eat, they dug up tree roots and boiled soybean dregs to stave off hunger, yet their resolve only grew firmer."⁴

Two months later, Qing reinforcements lifted the siege. Qianlong felt the city had held out with extraordinary backbone and, in an unprecedented move, issued an imperial edict bestowing a new name. The Chiayi City Government's official history page quotes the edict: "The Qing court, in accordance with the principle of 'commending its loyalty in defending the city walls,' issued an edict on the third day of the eleventh month of the following year, changing the name from 'Zhuluo' to 'Chiayi.'"⁵

This is the only county-level city in all of Taiwan to have been personally named by an emperor. The four characters "嘉其忠義" (jiā qí zhōng yì—"commend its loyalty") defined a city. Other place names in Taiwan mostly derive from Indigenous transliteration, geographic features, or administrative nomenclature (Keelung means "prosperous foundation," Changhua means "manifest imperial transformation"). Only Chiayi—its name is itself an abbreviation of a political history.

From this point on, Chiayi had a dual identity. It was a city the Qing court deemed worthy of an imperial edict, but its historical peak also stopped here.

📝 Curator's note: Open any county or city history and the name behind it is usually a geographic or political label. But "Chiayi" is an imperial edict—a post-hoc commendation from the Qing court to a group of city-defending people. The problem is: a city singled out by an emperor doesn't necessarily get remembered by history. More than two hundred years after Qianlong renamed it, when Taiwanese people hear "Chiayi," the first associations are usually turkey rice, the gateway to Alishan, or "my brother brings back two boxes of square pastries when he comes down from Taipei." The four characters "commend its loyalty" have been worn smooth by time, but the city has never taken the name down. The emperor-given name still hangs above the door, even as the people inside have changed generation after generation.

The Tropic of Cancer Grew Out of a Rice Paddy

In April 1908 (the 41st year of the Meiji era), the Japanese erected a large stone tower in a rice paddy 3.3 km southwest of Chiayi City to celebrate the full opening of Taiwan's Western Trunk Line railway. The National Cultural Memory Bank entry states plainly: "This was the first-generation Tropic of Cancer marker, and also the world's first Tropic of Cancer monument ever erected."⁶

This fact carries two layers of meaning. First: the Tropic of Cancer is a physical coordinate produced by the Earth's axial tilt of 23.5 degrees—it exists at every longitude, but before 1908 no country had thought this invisible line was worth commemorating with a monument. The Japanese chose to do this on the occasion of Taiwan's railway completion, treating "modern geographic science" as a symbol of colonial modernization. Second: Chiayi thereby became "the starting point of southern Taiwan." South of the Tropic of Cancer is the tropics; north of it is the subtropics. Chiayi is the nearest city to this dividing line.

Sixth-generation Tropic of Cancer marker, 2016-01. Photo: B2322858, Public Domain via Wikimedia.

This marker has passed through more than a hundred years in the hands of Chiayi people. The first generation was destroyed by a typhoon in 1912; the second was a makeshift bamboo-and-wood reconstruction in 1915; the third was completed in 1926, prompted by Crown Prince Hirohito's 1923 visit to Taiwan, when he passed through Shuishang and, seeing the crude bamboo tower, immediately ordered its reconstruction.⁷ The fourth was rebuilt around the mid-1930s, then destroyed in the 1941 Caoling earthquake; the fifth was completed in 1942 and renovated into a small park by the Chiayi Air Force in 1968; the sixth was completed in 1995 and later renovated into today's Tropic of Cancer Solar Pavilion.⁸

Chiayi people's attitude toward this marker is distinctive. It's outside the city proper—technically in Shuishang Township, Chiayi County—but every generation of Chiayi residents has taken out-of-town guests to see it. The tower's form has changed continuously (from stone tower to steel frame to modern architecture), but its location hasn't moved in a hundred years. Typhoons can topple it and it gets rebuilt; earthquakes can destroy it and it gets rebuilt again. The point is that the line at 23°27'N continues to pass through Taiwan, and the city with the world's first monument to this fact is right here.

Alishan Turned This City into a Timber Capital

What truly made Chiayi prosperous in the 20th century was Alishan's wood.

In 1899, the Japanese discovered Alishan's abundant old-growth cypress forests and began railway planning. In 1906, the private Fujita Group began construction; in 1910, the line was nationalized. In December 1912, the forest railway from Chiayi to Erwanping opened, spanning 66.6 km, and was extended to Alishan in 1914.⁹ That same year (1914), the Chiayi Sawmill commenced operations—the largest government-run timber industrial complex in Japanese-ruled Taiwan. "It employed the most advanced European and American equipment, with an almost fully automated production process, earning it the reputation of 'the Orient's premier sawmill.'"¹⁰

The quality of Alishan cypress was such that its influence extended beyond the island: "These premium building materials were used to construct the great torii of Meiji Shrine in Tokyo and to restore the Buddhist hall of Hōryū-ji, a Japanese national treasure."¹¹ Every red cypress log transported down from Alishan was first cut at the Chiayi Sawmill, then shipped by boat to Japan. Chiayi became the distribution hub for Alishan timber. In 1935, in a city of 70,000 people, "one in ten residents worked in the timber industry, making it the fifth most populous and prosperous city in all of Taiwan."¹¹

Beimen Station, 2021-12. Photo: Honmingjun, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia.

Beimen Station, the starting point of the Alishan Railway, "was once the largest timber trading market in all of Taiwan."¹² Today, walking into Beimen Station, the wooden exterior still looks as it did in 1912. In 1998, a fire destroyed half the building, but it was restored to its original condition by the Chiayi Forest District Office that same year. The station is built from Alishan's own red cypress—wood that may be over a thousand years old. Using thousand-year-old trees to build a station, then using that station to transport more thousand-year-old trees down the mountain—this was the cycle of Alishan forestry under Japanese rule.

Song of Forest, 2020-10-11. Photo: Mearchan, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia.

The timber capital era, counted from the 1914 opening of the Alishan Sawmill to the government's complete cessation of large-scale Alishan logging in 1963, lasted exactly 50 years.¹¹ In the late 1960s, Alishan forestry gradually declined, and workers in logging, sawmilling, and transport transitioned to other trades, but wood never entirely left Chiayi—it became the city's material heritage. Smile Taiwan records that Chiayi City today "still has over six thousand wooden houses, the highest density in the nation,"¹¹ each one a material relic of the "timber capital era." The city government's recent "Timber Capital Revival" brand is built on top of these six thousand old wooden houses.

✦ "These premium building materials were used to construct the great torii of Meiji Shrine in Tokyo and to restore the Buddhist hall of Hōryū-ji, a Japanese national treasure." (Smile Taiwan, "Chiayi Timber Capital" series)¹¹

Alishan's wood built Tokyo's great torii and restored Nara's Hōryū-ji. Chiayi people don't often bring this up, but walk past the "Alishan Forest Railway and Japan's Kurobe Gorge Railway Sister Railway Memorial Stone" next to Beimen Station, and a line will remind you: this city was once a critical node in the Japanese Empire's timber supply chain.

The Multiethnic Team at Koshien

In the summer of 1931, Chiayi produced a baseball team.

Chiayi Agricultural and Forestry School (KANO) participated for the first time as Taiwan's representative in Japan's National High School Baseball Championship (Summer Koshien). What was most unusual was the team's composition: a mix of Japanese, Han Chinese, and Taiwanese Indigenous players—unprecedented at a time when Taiwanese baseball teams were dominated by northern Japanese players. Coach Kondō Heitarō came from Ehime Prefectural Matsuyō Commercial School, a Koshien powerhouse. The Taiwan Baseball Wiki records that after arriving at KANO, he "began to truly show his capabilities."¹³

On August 21, the day of the final, KANO pitcher Wu Ming-chieh, who had already pitched four consecutive games, was exhausted. The Taiwan Baseball Wiki preserves a play-by-play record of the game: "In the final on August 21, KANO pitcher Wu Ming-chieh, who had pitched four consecutive games... the team ultimately lost 0–4 to Chūkyō Commercial School from Aichi Prefecture, finishing as runners-up."¹³

Their opponent Chūkyō Commercial went on to become the only school in Koshien history to achieve a three-peat (1931–1933) and remains the high school with the most Koshien victories to this day. That summer, KANO lost to the future strongest school in Koshien history by four runs.

The historical significance of this game lies not in winning or losing. It is the earliest concrete example of multiethnic cooperation under the framework of "colonial modernity." A single baseball game showed the world that Han Chinese, Indigenous, and Japanese players could fight side by side on the same field—something that couldn't be manufactured through official propaganda. The 2014 Wei Te-sheng film KANO brought this mythology back to 21st-century Taiwan's collective memory, but the KANO story had been passed down orally among Chiayi people all along. The school still exists today (upgraded to Chiayi University), and the baseball field next to the original campus is now the KANO Park.

Three Days of Bodies on Chiayi's Streets

In March 1947, Chiayi produced another story.

After the February 28 Incident erupted island-wide, on March 2, dozens of young people who had traveled south from Changhua and Taichung "rallied citizens between the train station and the fountain"¹⁴—the Central Fountain mentioned at the start of this article. The crowd surrounded Mayor Sun Chih-chun's official residence and the police station. On March 5, Chiayi City Councilor and Youth Corps Secretary Lu Bing-chin went up to Alishan to ask Tsou indigenous youth to come down and help maintain order; Tsou Township Chief Kao Yi-sheng (Uyongu Yatauyungana) sent Tang Shou-jen to lead indigenous youth to garrison at Chiayi's Hōryū-ji temple. On the same day, militia forces besieged Shuishang Airport and the Hongmaoqi Armory, with approximately 300 casualties.¹⁴

During the airport siege, both sides negotiated multiple times. On March 8–9, the Chiayi side sent negotiation representatives to the airport for talks; the representatives were detained, with only three female committee members released. On March 11, "a battalion of the 430th Regiment, 21st Division of the Army arrived at the airport, and southern reinforcements reached Chiayi."¹⁴ On March 18, Chen Fu-chih, chairman of the February 28 Incident Handling Committee's Chiayi branch, "was paraded through the streets as a public spectacle and then executed by firing squad in front of Chiayi Train Station."¹⁴

Seven days later, on March 25, four Chiayi City Councilors were taken to the square in front of the train station: Chen Cheng-po (painter, in 1926 the first Taiwanese artist to have a Western painting selected for Japan's Imperial Exhibition), Pan Mu-zhi (a physician trained in Japanese education), Ko Lin (owner of Qingsheng Theater), and Lu Bing-chin (dentist). The Reporter's "Chiayi February 28 Photo Feature" records: "On March 25, Chen Cheng-po, Pan Mu-zhi, Ko Lin, and Lu Bing-chin were executed by firing squad."¹⁴

Chen Cheng-po was 52 when he died (born February 2, 1895; executed March 25, 1947, by Western reckoning; the Chen Cheng-po Cultural Foundation timeline records "aged 53" using traditional East Asian age reckoning¹⁵). A Taiwan Gazette English-language report preserves a detail: "The Kuomintang forbade families from collecting the corpses immediately, so Chen's remains were left to decompose on the street for three days."¹⁶ The KMT prohibited families from collecting the bodies immediately; Chen Cheng-po's remains lay on Chiayi's streets for three days.

In 1933, this city had completed what was called "the first steel-reinforced concrete station on the Western Trunk Line" and "the most modern reinforced concrete station on the entire island."¹⁷ On the same square in front of that station, in 1947, the bodies of native Taiwanese elites lay for three days. A city's modernization and political violence, compressed into a single square.

Chiayi Railway Station, 2006-08-24. Photo: Bigmorr, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia.

The fate of the Chiayi Painting School is bound up with Chen Cheng-po's death. Since the mid-Japanese era, Chiayi had been known as the "City of Painting." In the first Provincial Exhibition of 1938, "Chiayi painters accounted for twenty percent of all selected entries," and the Taiwan Daily News ran the headline "Chiayi Is the City of Painting, Selected Artists Account for Twenty Percent."¹⁸ Lin Yu-shan (1907–2004, born Lin Ying-gui, from Meijie Street in Chiayi City) had his works Water Buffalo and Great South Gate selected for the first Taiwan Fine Arts Exhibition in 1927, and together with Chen Jin and Guo Xuehu became known as the "Three Youths of the Taiwan Exhibition."¹⁸ The Chiayi Painting School grew from the Chūn-meng Painting Society (1928), the Chiayi Calligraphy and Painting Self-Encouragement Society (1931), and the Moyang Society (1934) to become the city with the highest Imperial Exhibition selection rate in all of Taiwan.

After Chen Cheng-po's death, the City of Painting's story continued. In October 2020, the Chiayi Art Museum opened southeast of the Central Fountain. Its predecessor was the Chiayi Branch of the Tobacco and Alcohol Monopoly Bureau, completed in 1936—a municipal historic site designed by Japanese architect Umezawa Seijirō.¹⁹ Three buildings from the 1936, 1954, and 1980 eras were fused into a new whole, and the address stands as a memorial to the generation of painters that included Lin Yu-shan, Chen Cheng-po, and Chang Li-te-ho.

Chiayi Art Museum, 2020-08-12. Photo: Chiayi City Government, Government Open Data attribution.

U.S. Aid Chickens and the HSR Station "Not in Chiayi City"

The fastest impression outsiders have of Chiayi is turkey rice, but this dish actually only appeared after the war, and the first bite wasn't turkey.

The Chiayi Tourism Bureau's website states clearly: "According to oral accounts from Chiayi elders, it originated in the 38th year of the Republic (1949), when Lin Tianshou, a founding vendor at the 'First Marketplace,' had a sudden inspiration. He took the chicken bought for worship (which was regular broiler chicken at the time), shredded it, placed it over white rice, poured braised sauce over it, and found the texture unique. He then officially began selling chicken rice on Zhongshan Road."²⁰

When Lin Tianshou opened his shop in 1949, what was on the plate was broiler chicken, not turkey. Turkey didn't arrive in Chiayi until the U.S. aid era. From the same Chiayi Tourism Bureau record: "Taiwan originally had no turkey farming. After World War II, many U.S. military personnel stationed in Taiwan brought large quantities of turkeys into Chiayi City and Shuishang Township, Chiayi County, starting the delicious origin of 'turkey rice.'"²⁰ During the 1951–1965 U.S. aid period, Taiwan imported white-feathered turkeys from the United States, replacing the original black-feathered variety and driving improvements in both farming volume and quality. Turkeys were large, cheaper than chicken, and highly nutritious. In the postwar era of material scarcity, they gradually replaced the broiler chicken in Lin Tianshou's shop, becoming Chiayi's distinctive source of affordable protein.

The evolution from "shredded chicken rice" to "turkey rice" followed a curve spanning more than a decade. Story StoryStudio has documented this: "Turkey rice didn't just appear out of nowhere—its predecessor was 'shredded chicken rice.' In the early postwar period, due to inflation and soaring prices, material conditions in Taiwanese society were generally poor, and chicken was something many families could only afford during New Year and festivals."²¹ Lin Tianshou's "Pēnshuǐ Turkey Rice" (Fountain Turkey Rice), founded in 1949 with broiler chicken, was located on Zhongshan Road next to the Central Fountain roundabout—its name derived from its geographic location. It later became Chiayi's representative old-name turkey rice shop and the earliest turkey rice brand to achieve chain operations nationwide.

When outsiders come to Chiayi to eat turkey rice, there are two main routes: Liu Li-chang Turkey Rice (West District), Ah-Hung Shih (East District), and Simple Turkey Rice (East District)—these are the tourist-queue shops; Chiayi locals each have their own preferred stalls. The area around the Colorful Fountain tends to have the highest density of tourists, while locals will detour to small shops along Xinyi Road or Wenhua Road near Beimen Station. The ratio of turkey, rice, braised sauce, and fried shallot crisps is the criterion for judgment. The sauce recipe (the proportion of braised pork in the sauce, the method of frying the shallots) forms each shop's fingerprint.²¹

After eating, when outsiders try to take the HSR back north, they discover another thing: Chiayi City has no high-speed rail station.

Chiayi HSR Station is located in Taibao City, Chiayi County—not in Chiayi City proper. This is a rare structure in Taiwan's administrative geography: Chiayi City is entirely surrounded by Chiayi County. After Chiayi City separated from Chiayi County and was upgraded to a provincial city in 1982, the Chiayi County Council voted in 1982 to relocate the county seat to Dongshi-liao Farm in Taibao Township. "A coastal-district councilman suddenly introduced a new proposal for Taibao Township," which passed with 27 votes, exceeding half.²² In 1991, the Chiayi County Government officially moved to the "Xianghe New Village" county administration special zone in Taibao; Taibao Township was upgraded to Taibao City.²²

Former Chiayi County Magistrate Tu Te-chi had a comment on the outcome of the city-county separation: "What was originally a moderately well-off household has now become two poor households."²² Chiayi City had a population of 250,000 at the time of its upgrade, reaching 260,000 by 2026—"its population and industrial scale can be said to have remained virtually unchanged for decades."²² Over the intervening 30 years, the city's peak population reached 274,212 in April 2009, declining to 261,626 by April 2026—a drop of approximately 12,600 over 17 years.²²

When the HSR opened in 2007, the Chiayi station was built in Taibao. It is approximately 10 km in a straight line from Chiayi City proper, with no rail system (TRA or MRT) connecting them—passengers must transfer via BRT or taxi for about 15 minutes to reach Chiayi City. Seventeen years have passed, and as of 2026, this has not improved. This is a case of "the nearest provincial city" missing the most important transportation node within its own county. The city that received its name from an emperor and the most advanced transportation system of the 21st century are separated by a single BRT route.

The Peach City Roundabout: Three Hundred Years at the Same Spot

Return to the Central Fountain from the opening.

During the Qing dynasty, it was the terminus of the Peach Tail city walls. During the Japanese era, it was a circular plaza in the urban correction plan. In the 1970s, it became Mayor Xu Shixian's Colorful Fountain. Its appearance has changed every decade or so, but the roundabout's location has never moved. Looking north from this roundabout is the 1933 Chiayi Train Station designed by Ujihiro Tsuneo—the square where Chen Cheng-po was shot in 1947. Looking east is the 1936 Tobacco and Alcohol Monopoly Bureau building—the Chiayi Art Museum that opened in 2020. Looking south is the entrance to the Wenhua Road night market. Looking west is the urban fabric that grew along the Alishan Forest Railway after it opened in 1912.

Four directions, four histories, all radiating from this single roundabout.

Chiayi people don't make a big deal of this. They know Taipei can't see Chiayi (every time Chiayi comes up, Taipei people think of it as a stopover, the station they passed through on the HSR without getting off), but they don't particularly need Taipei to see them. They have the moment the Tropic of Cancer grew out of a rice paddy, the thousand-year-old red cypress from Alishan that became the great torii of Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, the 1931 multiethnic team that reached Koshien, the square where no one could collect a body for three days in 1947, the plate of rice that evolved from broiler chicken to turkey in 1949, and six thousand wooden houses still standing.

None of this needs the frame of "the most easily overlooked provincial city" as a foil. Nor does it need Taipei's validation.

📝 Curator's note: Chiayi's position is special. It is in the central-southern part of Taiwan island, at 23°27'N, and the world's first Tropic of Cancer marker stands just 3.3 km outside the city. Geographically, it is Taiwan's "north-south dividing line"—north of the Tropic of Cancer is subtropical, south is tropical. But Chiayi people's identity has never been "south" or "north." They are "Peach City people" (Táochéng rén)—during the Qing dynasty, the shape of Zhuluo resembled a peach, and this nickname persists to this day. When outsiders debate "is Chiayi southern or central Taiwan," Chiayi people answer "Peach City." The emperor-given name "Chiayi" is the official memory; "Peach City" is the civic everyday. Behind a city's name there are actually two layers: the layer for history to see is called Chiayi; the layer for seeing yourself is called Peach City.

Next time you go to Chiayi, don't rush to eat turkey rice and catch the HSR. Walk out of the train station and circle the Central Fountain once. Watch the water jets shift between colors, count how many exits the roundabout has (four), and see which period of history each exit leads to (train station 1933, art museum 1936, Wenhua Road night market, Alishan Railway). Then you'll remember one thing: Taiwan is not only north and south. In the middle of Taiwan there is a city that received its name directly from an emperor, and it has stood beside this roundabout for three hundred years.

From the moment Qianlong gave her the name "Chiayi," she never left her position.

Further Reading

Chiayi local context:

• Chen Cheng-po — The painter who died in front of Chiayi Train Station in 1947, and in 1926 became the first Taiwanese artist to have a Western painting selected for Japan's Imperial Exhibition
• Chiayi Turkey Rice — The complete food history of how Chiayi evolved from broiler chicken to turkey, from U.S. aid white-feathered turkeys to Chiayi's signature affordable dish
• Alishan: The Empire's Forest and Kao Yi-sheng's Mountain — The mountain that turned Chiayi into a timber capital, and the Tsou indigenous communities that came down the mountain in 1947 to help maintain order

Larger-scale historical coordinates:

• February 28 Incident — The historical context of the 1947 island-wide political tragedy; Chiayi was one of the cities with the most intense conflict
• A Century of Taiwanese Watercolor Painting — The place of the Chiayi Painting School in Taiwan's art history, from the Imperial Exhibition to the Provincial Exhibition
• Taiwanese Baseball Culture — The coordinates of KANO's 1931 Koshien runner-up finish in Taiwan's baseball history
• History of Taiwan's Railways — The broader context of how the 1908 Western Trunk Line completion gave rise to the Tropic of Cancer marker
• History of Taiwan's Forest Development — The larger scale of Alishan forestry's 50 years (1914–1963)
• Chiayi County — 22 Counties and Cities Series batch 2; the county that completely surrounds this city, separated from the city in 1950, relocated its county seat to Taibao in 1991—the other half of this article's narrative
• Keelung City — First article in the 22 Counties and Cities Series; another port city overshadowed by the capital's frame, offering a different fault line for comparison with two mid-sized cities

Image Credits

This article uses 5 Wikimedia Commons images. The hero image (frontmatter) is Sixth Generation Tropic of Cancer in Chiayi, the sixth-generation Tropic of Cancer marker (completed 1995, located in Shuishang Township, Chiayi County), Photo: B2322858, Public Domain.

The §Alishan Turned This City into a Timber Capital section includes two images: Beimen Train Station 01 (Beimen Station, the starting point of the Alishan Forest Railway, opened 1912. Photo: Honmingjun, CC BY-SA 4.0), and Song of Forest - Alishan Forestry Village (the "Song of Forest" installation at Hinoki Village, originally the Alishan forestry official residential compound, 1914–1943. Photo: Mearchan, CC BY-SA 4.0).

The §Three Days of Bodies on Chiayi's Streets section includes two images: Chiayi Railway Station (Chiayi Railway Station, second generation, designed by Ujihiro Tsuneo, 1933. Photo: Bigmorr, CC BY-SA 3.0), and Chiayi Art Museum (Chiayi Art Museum, opened October 2020, originally the 1936 Chiayi Branch of the Tobacco and Alcohol Monopoly Bureau. Photo: Chiayi City Government, Government Open Data Declaration).

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