| | Seediq saga dramatizes importance of dignity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | The movie, whose screenplay was written by Wei himself, tells the heart-rending but highly inspirational story of the heroic 1930 Wushe Uprising of the Seediq people, led by their chief, 48-year-old Mona Rudao, in the mountainous region of Taiwan's Nantou County against the Japanese colonialists of that time. |
 | | The specific chain of events that touched off the uprising, launched by more than 300 Seediq braves on Oct. 27, 1930 in the mountain village of Wushe, are in themselves relatively inconsequential within the overall context of the degradation of their dignity and freedom perpetrated over the previous decades. |
 | | Until only a decade ago, nearly all Chinese-language accounts of the Wushe Uprising published since the Japanese withdrew from Taiwan have tended to use this chapter of history to inveigh against foreign powers' humiliation of the ROC, painting the Seediq rebels as patriotic ROC citizens. |
| publish.gio.gov.tw /FCJ/past/05050651.html (929 words) |