Qualla: National Museum of Taiwan Literature https://qualla.com/national-museum-of-taiwan-literature 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/national-museum-of-taiwan-literature-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: National Museum of Taiwan Literature https://qualla.com/national-museum-of-taiwan-literature National Museum of Taiwan Literature: Introduction https://qualla.com/national-museum-of-taiwan-literature/ Photo credit Mk2010, CC BY-SA 4.0. American incendiary bombs destroyed part of the building during World War II. Before that, it was the seat of Japanese colonial administration for Tainan Prefecture. Before that, the site served the Qing government. Today the former Tainan Prefectural Hall, constructed in 1916, holds approximately 130,000 literary artifacts in Taiwanese, Japanese, Mandarin, and Classical Chinese. The National Museum of Taiwan Literature is what happens when a country decides that its stories, written in four languages across three centuries of colonial rule, are worth preserving in a building that embodies every chapter of that complicated history.

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