A Study on the Dynamic Relationship Between the Historical Landscape and Industrial Economy for the Operation of Wulai Log Cart in the Colonial Period

• Main Authors: Yu-Hsuan Tseng, 曾幼瑄
• Other Authors: Xu Yu-Jian
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vbp8xz

碩士 === 華梵大學 === 建築系在職專班 === 106 === Between 1895 and 1995, Taiwan entered the Period of Japanese Rule, when the Japanese government adopted the policy of “Advancing with Courage.”At this moment, “the Route for the Rule of Indigenous People” was built as a consequence. With this policy, the power of the ruling regime went deep inside the tribe, and actively collected the forestry resources there, including camphor, tea, and logs. As a result, the Japanese inland capitalists holding a good relationship with the Office of the Governor-General was allowed to gain access to the lands in the aboriginal area, thus developing their business in Taiwan. Among them, the camphor manufacturing and hydroelectric power development business of Tokura Family and the camphor manufacturing , tea making , and forestry developing business of Mitsui Co., Ltd. brought the greatest impact on northern Taiwan. In the tenth year of Taisho Regime (1921), in order to cooperate with Mitsui Co., Ltd.’s forestry development in Wulai Area, a project of “the Collective Migration of Indigenous People” was launched in Wulia, and a large group of indigenous people was relocated to non-afforested areas for collective farming. After Mitsui Co., Ltd. and Taiwan Camphor Co., Ltd. entered the mountain for logging and camphor collecting, a light railway (for log carts) was built to facilitate the transportation process. By the year of 1927, in order to transport logs and tea, Mitsui Co., Ltd. had built several light railways between Guishan and Xinxian one after another, thus officially starting “the Era of Railway Transportation” for Wulai Area. In 1928, Mitsui Co., Ltd. further extended the light railway south to Fushan and Tonghong, making the length of the route of light railway from Xindian through Tonghong down to Fushan extend as long as 80 kilometers. As we can expect, Mitsui Co., Ltd.’s development of the logging industry in Wulai Area caused the migration of the Tayal tribes; the building of light railways and the transportation of logs on the log carts driven with the labor of Han people also produced a tremendous impact on the landscape and industrial categories of Wulai Area.