Zhongshan Hall
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Zhongshan Hall is a historic building which originally functioned as the Taipei City Public Auditorium. It is located at 98 Yanping South Road in the Ximending neighborhood of Zhongzheng District, Tai
The Zhongshan Hall facade
Taipei Zhongshan Hall as it appeared in 1940.
Chen Yi (right) accepting the acceptance receipt of Order No. 1 signed by Rikichi Andō (left), the last Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan, in Zhongshan Hall.
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed in this room on 25 October 1945.
Chen Yi (Kuomintang)
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Chen Yi was a Chinese military officer and politician who served as the chief executive and garrison commander of Taiwan Province after the Empire of Japan surrendered to the Republic of China. He act
Zhongshan Hall
…and Nagoya. After Taiwan's handover to the Republic of China in 1945 after World War II, the Chief of the Taiwan Provincial Administrative Office, Chen Yi represented the Allies and accepted a formal surrender from the Japanese. The surrendering Japanese commander was Ando Rikichi, last Japanese…
Chen Yi as pictured in The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries