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*''Born: [[1866]]''
*''Died: 1937''
*''Chinese'': 辜顯榮 ''(Gu Xianrong)''
Gu Xianrong was a Chinese collaborator with the Japanese in colonial [[Taiwan]].
A local merchant on Taiwan, he infiltrated the Japanese navy as it arrived, and as [[Qing Dynasty|Qing]] forces withdrew, offering to help aid the Japanese in taking [[Taipei]]. Though [[Mizuno Jun]], [[Chief of Home Affairs (Taiwan)|Chief of Home Affairs]], was initially skeptical towards Gu and suspected him of being a Chinese spy, in the end, Mizuno accepted Gu's aid. The two would work together a number of times from then on, and Gu played a key role in getting a bronze statue of Mizuno erected in Taipei's Maruyama Park.
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==References==
*Suzuki Eka, "Building Statues of Japanese Governors: Monumental Bronze Sculptures and Colonial Cooperation in Taiwan under Japanese Rule," presentation at 2013 UCSB International Conference on Taiwan Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 7 Dec 2013.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Foreigners]]
*''Died: 1937''
*''Chinese'': 辜顯榮 ''(Gu Xianrong)''
Gu Xianrong was a Chinese collaborator with the Japanese in colonial [[Taiwan]].
A local merchant on Taiwan, he infiltrated the Japanese navy as it arrived, and as [[Qing Dynasty|Qing]] forces withdrew, offering to help aid the Japanese in taking [[Taipei]]. Though [[Mizuno Jun]], [[Chief of Home Affairs (Taiwan)|Chief of Home Affairs]], was initially skeptical towards Gu and suspected him of being a Chinese spy, in the end, Mizuno accepted Gu's aid. The two would work together a number of times from then on, and Gu played a key role in getting a bronze statue of Mizuno erected in Taipei's Maruyama Park.
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==References==
*Suzuki Eka, "Building Statues of Japanese Governors: Monumental Bronze Sculptures and Colonial Cooperation in Taiwan under Japanese Rule," presentation at 2013 UCSB International Conference on Taiwan Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 7 Dec 2013.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Foreigners]]
