Qualla: Barclay Memorial Park https://qualla.com/barclay-memorial-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/barclay-memorial-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Barclay Memorial Park https://qualla.com/barclay-memorial-park Barclay Memorial Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/barclay-memorial-park/ Photo credit The original uploader was Koika at Chinese Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. The land sat idle for nearly a decade, buried under wild growth and accumulated rubbish, designated as Park No. 18 on a city plan that no one had followed through on. Then in 2001, the chief of Chongming Village decided enough was enough. He gathered some friends; they began clearing. Others joined. By the time the work was done, 57 volunteers had rebuilt creek slopes, relaid walking paths, replanted native vegetation, and reintroduced fireflies to a patch of Tainan that the city had forgotten. They named it for Thomas Barclay — the Scottish missionary who had arrived in southern Taiwan in 1875 and stayed for sixty years, reshaping the island's educational and religious landscape in ways that still echo today.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/barclay-memorial-park-wp/wsj6-barclay-memorial-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Barclay Memorial Park: The Man Behind the Name https://qualla.com/barclay-memorial-park/ Photo credit Pbdragonwang, CC BY-SA 3.0. Thomas Barclay arrived in Tainan in 1875 as a young missionary with the Presbyterian Church of England, and he did not leave until 1935. Sixty years in one city is a commitment that resists easy description. During that time he established a printing press that became the foundat...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/barclay-memorial-park-wp/wsj6-barclay-memorial-park-the-man-behind-the-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Barclay Memorial Park: From Landfill to Living Park https://qualla.com/barclay-memorial-park/ Photo credit 舟集 Boattoad, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Barclay Memorial Park's own history is a smaller story, but an instructive one. In 1993, Tainan City Government designated the land in Chongming Village as Park No. 18. Construction was supposed to begin that same year, but a dispute over land ownership between Tainan City an...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/barclay-memorial-park-wp/wsj6-barclay-memorial-park-from-landfill-to-living-park.mp3 0:06 3 full Barclay Memorial Park: Fireflies at Dusk https://qualla.com/barclay-memorial-park/ Photo credit Mk2010, CC BY-SA 4.0. The firefly reintroduction is more than a detail. Firefly populations require clean water, dense vegetation, and the absence of heavy light pollution — conditions that a newly restored urban park in a city of over a million people cannot guarantee easily. That the fireflies have ...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/barclay-memorial-park-wp/wsj6-barclay-memorial-park-fireflies-at-dusk.mp3 0:06 4 full Barclay Memorial Park: A Legacy in Two Scales https://qualla.com/barclay-memorial-park/ Photo credit Mk2010, CC BY-SA 4.0. Standing in Barclay Memorial Park, it is worth holding both scales of the story in mind simultaneously. Thomas Barclay's sixty years in Tainan reshaped how southern Taiwanese communities related to literacy, religion, and the Hokkien language — contributions that operated at the ...

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