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Taiwan Esperanto Association Wikipedia

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The Taiwan Esperanto Association was a Taiwan|Taiwanese society founded to promote Esperanto. It was active in History of Taiwan#Japanese_Rule|colonial Taiwan, notably Taipei, during the 1920s and 1930s|'30s. Its predecessor was the Japan Esperanto Association, Taiwan Branch, founded in 1913 by Kodama Sir?? (児玉四郎). (The new Tajvana Esperantista Asocio http://www.uea.org/landoj/azio/tajvano.html, founded 1990, is historically unrelated.) The society exchanged its official monthly publication, La Verda Ombro ("The Green Shade"; 1919-1924), with many similar-minded societies overseas. The well-known political activist Li??n Un-kheng (Lien Wenqing, 連溫卿) was the main editor.

In the early 1930s the society was active in internationalism (politics)|internationalist politics unrelated to Esperanto promotion. In 1932, for example, it attempted to publish an article in a leading paper condemning Japan's invasion of Manchuria; the article was censored by the Japanese authorities. In the following year it took part in an alliance to protest Adolf Hitler.

Publication:

• Organized Study of Esperanto, a Textbook (in Japanese)

Last Modified:   2005-11-04