Qualla: Chenggong, Taitung https://qualla.com/chenggong-taitung en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/7/chenggong-taitung-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Chenggong, Taitung https://qualla.com/chenggong-taitung Chenggong, Taitung: Introduction https://qualla.com/chenggong-taitung/ Photo credit 總統府, CC BY 2.0. The town got its current name as a bureaucratic workaround. After World War II, administrators needed to distinguish this Amis settlement from two other places with similar-sounding names elsewhere on the island. The solution was to rename it Chenggong — the name of the seventeenth-century general Koxinga, Cheng Ch'eng-kung, who expelled the Dutch from Taiwan. It was a grand name for a small coastal town. The town has been growing into it ever since.

Read more: Chenggong, Taitung on Qualla

Image: 總統府 | CC BY 2.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/7/chenggong-taitung-wp/wsn7-chenggong-taitung-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chenggong, Taitung: Before Koxinga's Name https://qualla.com/chenggong-taitung/ Photo credit Lord Koxinga, CC BY-SA 3.0. Long before Japanese colonizers renamed it Shinkō Town, this stretch of Taitung's coast was an Amis settlement known by the Hokkien name Moalaulau. The Amis people are still the majority community in Chenggong, making up 53 percent of the township's roughly 13,193 inhabitants. Th...

Read more: Chenggong, Taitung on Qualla

Image: Lord Koxinga | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/7/chenggong-taitung-wp/wsn7-chenggong-taitung-before-koxingas-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Chenggong, Taitung: The Marlin Capital of the East Coast https://qualla.com/chenggong-taitung/ Photo credit Eric850130, CC BY-SA 4.0. Chenggong Fish Harbor sits just west of downtown, and the fishing culture it supports is the economic and emotional center of the township. The deep-water marlin — specifically the striped marlin and the blue marlin — has been central to Chenggong's fishing identity since the Jap...

Read more: Chenggong, Taitung on Qualla

Image: Eric850130 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/7/chenggong-taitung-wp/wsn7-chenggong-taitung-the-marlin-capital-of-the-east-coast.mp3 0:06 3 full Chenggong, Taitung: A Soldier Who Refused to Stop https://qualla.com/chenggong-taitung/ Photo credit Lord Koxinga, CC BY-SA 3.0. Chenggong's most unusual historical figure is Teruo Nakamura, born here in 1919 under his Amis name Attun Palalin. Conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, he was stationed in what is now Indonesia, and when the war ended in 1945, he either did not receive...

Read more: Chenggong, Taitung on Qualla

Image: Lord Koxinga | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/7/chenggong-taitung-wp/wsn7-chenggong-taitung-a-soldier-who-refused-to-stop.mp3 0:06 4 full Chenggong, Taitung: The Eastern Shore at Your Feet https://qualla.com/chenggong-taitung/ Photo credit Chongkian, CC BY-SA 3.0. The territory around Chenggong is dense with reasons to stop. Sanxiantai, the coastal islet reached by the eight-arched footbridge shaped like a sea dragon, lies within the township's boundaries — arguably the most photographed landmark on Taiwan's east coast. The East Coast Nati...

Read more: Chenggong, Taitung on Qualla

Image: Chongkian | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/7/chenggong-taitung-wp/wsn7-chenggong-taitung-the-eastern-shore-at-your-feet.mp3 0:06 5 full