Qualla: Soulangh Cultural Park https://qualla.com/soulangh-cultural-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/7/soulangh-cultural-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Soulangh Cultural Park https://qualla.com/soulangh-cultural-park Soulangh Cultural Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/soulangh-cultural-park/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1906, during the early years of Japanese rule over Taiwan, a sugar factory opened in Jiali, a district north of Tainan. For nearly ninety years the Soulangh Sugar Refinery ran its operations, processing the sugarcane that grew thick across the southwestern Taiwan plain and shipping refined sugar into a colonial economy that depended on it. When the factory closed in 1995, it left behind 14 warehouses, a network of rail tracks, and several substantial industrial structures in a landscape that no longer needed them for their original purpose. What happened next is the kind of reinvention that post-industrial spaces occasionally manage when a city is paying attention: in 2005, after years of planning, Soulangh reopened as a cultural park.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/7/soulangh-cultural-park-wp/wsj7-soulangh-cultural-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Soulangh Cultural Park: Sugarcane and Empire https://qualla.com/soulangh-cultural-park/ Photo credit Teng Feng-Chou, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Jiali Sugar Factory's construction in 1906 came just a decade after Japan took control of Taiwan from Qing China following the first Sino-Japanese War of 1895. The colonial government invested heavily in Taiwan's sugar industry, viewing the island's subtropical climate and fl...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/7/soulangh-cultural-park-wp/wsj7-soulangh-cultural-park-sugarcane-and-empire.mp3 0:06 2 full Soulangh Cultural Park: What Fourteen Warehouses Became https://qualla.com/soulangh-cultural-park/ Photo credit T79979119, CC BY-SA 4.0. The conversion of the sugar refinery into a cultural park took several years of planning after a preparatory office was established in 2003. When Soulangh Cultural Park opened in 2005, it offered something the surrounding Jiali District had never had: a large, multi-purpose publi...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/7/soulangh-cultural-park-wp/wsj7-soulangh-cultural-park-what-fourteen-warehouses-became.mp3 0:06 3 full Soulangh Cultural Park: The Siraya and Tainan Folk Art https://qualla.com/soulangh-cultural-park/ Photo credit T79979119, CC BY-SA 4.0. Among the most significant aspects of Soulangh's permanent programming is its commitment to the Siraya people — the indigenous Taiwanese group whose ancestral territory encompassed the Tainan area long before Han settlement began in the 17th century. The Siraya were one of the Fo...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/7/soulangh-cultural-park-wp/wsj7-soulangh-cultural-park-the-siraya-and-tainan-folk-art.mp3 0:06 4 full Soulangh Cultural Park: The Artist Village https://qualla.com/soulangh-cultural-park/ Photo credit T79979119, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 2013, eight years after the park's opening, Soulangh initiated its Artist Village — a residency program that invites artists to live and work on the grounds, bringing active creative practice into what could otherwise become a purely memorial space. The Soulangh Artist Village...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/7/soulangh-cultural-park-wp/wsj7-soulangh-cultural-park-the-artist-village.mp3 0:06 5 full Soulangh Cultural Park: The Northern Tainan Plain from Above https://qualla.com/soulangh-cultural-park/ Photo credit T79979119, CC BY-SA 4.0. Soulangh Cultural Park sits at approximately 23.173°N, 120.179°E in Jiali District — notably further north than most of Tainan's better-known historic sites, on the flat agricultural plain that stretches between the city and the Zengwen River. From the air, this part of Taiwan lo...

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