Qualla: Taimali https://qualla.com/taimali en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/0/taimali-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Taimali https://qualla.com/taimali Taimali: Introduction https://qualla.com/taimali/ Photo credit Reke, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Paiwan people had a name for this place before anyone else arrived: Tjavualji, or Jabauli — the village of sunrise. The name came from a precise geographic fact: the sun rises here from the eastern sea, and at this particular bend of Taiwan's southeastern coast, with the mountains rising steeply behind and the Pacific opening wide ahead, the morning light is something specific. It arrives as a statement. Taimali Township, as it is known today, carries that original name forward in modified form — but the light that inspired it has not changed.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/0/taimali-wp/wsn0-taimali-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Taimali: A Thousand Years of Settlement https://qualla.com/taimali/ Photo credit Prince Roy, CC BY 2.0. The Paiwan people established Tjavualji at least a thousand years ago. Their ancestors — known in historical records as the Qian YaoKao, also called the Da Ma — chose this Pacific-facing site in what is now Taitung County, southeastern Taiwan. Qing dynasty records document the pl...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/0/taimali-wp/wsn0-taimali-a-thousand-years-of-settlement.mp3 0:06 2 full Taimali: Names Across Eras https://qualla.com/taimali/ Photo credit 總統府, CC BY 2.0. The township's name has shifted with each regime. Under Japanese colonial rule, by 1920 the settlement had been given an official designation reflecting the place's traditional name, and in 1937 it was formally called Tamari Village, subordinated to Taitō Prefecture as the Japane...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/0/taimali-wp/wsn0-taimali-names-across-eras.mp3 0:06 3 full Taimali: Living on the Pacific Coast https://qualla.com/taimali/ Photo credit WEI, WAN-CHEN, CC BY-SA 4.0. Taimali Township today covers 96.65 square kilometers along the southeastern coast of Taiwan, with a population of approximately 10,763. One-third of residents are members of the indigenous Amis and Paiwan communities, making this a township where indigenous culture remains a vis...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/0/taimali-wp/wsn0-taimali-living-on-the-pacific-coast.mp3 0:06 4 full Taimali: Sunrise as Identity https://qualla.com/taimali/ Photo credit 氏子, CC BY-SA 4.0. Taiwan selected Taimali for a nationally significant moment: on 1 January 2000, the government chose this east-facing coast as the site for the Millennium Dawn celebration, where the nation would watch the first sunrise of the year 2000 arrive over the Pacific. The Millennium Daw...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/0/taimali-wp/wsn0-taimali-sunrise-as-identity.mp3 0:06 5 full Taimali: What Draws Visitors Now https://qualla.com/taimali/ Photo credit Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0. Taimali's tourism draws on several kinds of appeal. Duoliang Station, a former Taiwan Railway stop in the village of Duoliang, is widely regarded as Taiwan's most beautiful disused railway station — its platform perched above the tracks with an unobstructed Pacific view. Jinlun H...

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