Qualla: Bo Yang Museum https://qualla.com/bo-yang-museum 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/bo-yang-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bo Yang Museum https://qualla.com/bo-yang-museum Bo Yang Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/bo-yang-museum/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. In 1968, a cartoonist published a Taiwanese translation of a Popeye comic strip in which Popeye and his son, stranded on a small island, mock a government that promises to "take the whole country" to recapture it. The government in question was the Republic of China. The translator was Bo Yang — real name Guo Dingsheng — who had already accumulated a reputation as one of Taiwan's most acerbic social critics. Authorities charged him with sedition. He was sentenced to twelve years, held on the infamous Green Island political prison off Taiwan's eastern coast, and not released until 1977, after roughly nine years of confinement. He emerged and kept writing. The museum in Tainan dedicated to his work and life is a small building with a very large subject.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/bo-yang-museum-wp/wsj6-bo-yang-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bo Yang Museum: A Life Measured in Candor https://qualla.com/bo-yang-museum/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. Bo Yang was born Guo Dingsheng on March 7, 1920, in mainland China, and came to Taiwan with the Nationalist government in 1949. He reinvented himself as a writer under his pen name and built a following through journalism and essays that took aim at what he saw as the pretensions...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/bo-yang-museum-wp/wsj6-bo-yang-museum-green-island-and-the-years-of-silence.mp3 0:06 3 full Bo Yang Museum: The Museum and Its Collections https://qualla.com/bo-yang-museum/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. The Bo Yang Museum opened on June 27, 2007, at the National University of Tainan, located in the city's West Central District. The path to its establishment was not straightforward. Initial discussions about repatriating Bo Yang's belongings began in November 2006; a room to hous...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/bo-yang-museum-wp/wsj6-bo-yang-museum-the-museum-and-its-collections.mp3 0:06 4 full Bo Yang Museum: Walking Distance from the Railway Station https://qualla.com/bo-yang-museum/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. The museum's practical accessibility matters. It sits within walking distance south of Tainan Station on the Taiwan Railway — one of the country's oldest rail lines, running the length of the western coastal plain. Tainan itself is Taiwan's oldest city, and its West Central Distr...

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