Chinese tourists damaged historical site, says Taiwan media

[Krueger]

Fort Zeelandia vandalised by Chinese tourists, according to Taiwanese reports
Monday, 14 October, 2013

Chinese tourists were seen damaging a historical site and exhibiting unruly behaviour on a recent visit to southern Taiwan during the China’s Golden Week holiday, according to a Taiwanese media report.

Witnesses told television station TVBS that they had seen Chinese tourists using their fingers to poke and dig away at the fragile mortar and concrete walls of Fort Zeelandia, a grade-one national heritage site in city of Tainan.

A building with a history ranging more than 400 years, the Fort’s exterior walls have endured centuries of weathering and erosion and is now vulnerable to vandalism by tourists, the report said.

The newscast added that the tourists, speaking Chinese dialects, continued trying to hollow out the walls of the fort despite staff efforts to intervene.

In addition, some Chinese tourists were seen smoking and spitting inside the site, openly flouting the site’s warning signs.

Greater Tainan Cultural Affairs Bureau Director Yeh Tse-shan confirmed to Taipei Times that the behaviour of the Chinese tourists had violated the nation’s Cultural Heritage Preservation Act. But he also indicated the difficulties in curbing such misconduct.

“The Fort Zeelandia site is spread over a large area. It is hard to hire enough guards to monitor every spot,” Yeh was cited as saying.

He also dismissed a suggestion of erecting barriers to separate tourists from the site, saying the construction could risk damaging the site as well.

According to Taiwan’s heritage preservation law, those who are found guilty of damaging heritage sites can be punished with imprisonment of up to five years and fines between TW$200,000 and $1,000,000 (HK$53,000 and HK$265,000).

Yeh said in general heritage sites are reliant on tour guides and volunteer staff to help supervise tourists’ behaviour and explain regulations to them.

Chinese tourists damaged historical site, says Taiwan media | South China Morning Post

 

[Coltsfan]

Doesn't surprise me. Idiots who can lend their historic monuments to be used as prop for Ferrari will obviously have no respect for other culture's historical sites.

 

[HariPrasad]

So now they have come down to this level. Some philosopher said it right, when it stats falling, everything falls.

 

[naveen mishra]

yuk chines

 

[Kolaps]

Communist destroyed a lot of ancient Chinese artifacts and relics...

Why should they respect the others too?


For the communist, artifacts and relics are symbol of backwardness.

Mainland Chinese are really very educated and informed, that is why they do it.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Communist destroyed a lot of ancient Chinese artifacts and relics...

Why should they respect the others too?


For the communist, artifacts and relics are symbol of backwardness.

Mainland Chinese are really very educated and informed, that is why they do it.

reminds me a movie,"the Way Back"...where its shown that Communists destroying Churches and everything along with it..but there is no reason why you should disrespect others' culture..

 

[shuttler]

yuck yuck the unhygienics + IQ 82 are at this level!

Red Spit Is Eating This Steel Bridge

http://gizmodo.com/5869920/red-spit-is-eating-this-steel-bridge

 

[faithfulguy]

It look like Chinese tourist is surpassing Americans as the worst tourist out there.

 

[shuttler]

While these behaviour are uncouth, we are also seeing a lot of our folks who have received inadequate education during their days of hardship can afford to travel this far to Taiwan, China NOW while some people on the same social echelon in countries like india etc are still sweeping dungs on the streets.

It just takes time and I am not blaming sensationalising of the issues by the Taiwanese right wings!

 

[Tanja]

What is the hidden goal behind? No one knows

Damian Grammaticas, a Chinese respondent from BBC analyzed the car crash as:
There have been many more violent incidents and dozens of deaths across Xinjiang in the past five years. Often these have involved clashes between Uighurs and local police, government and security personnel.

Authorities usually blame "separatists" and "terrorists" who they say are inspired, funded and trained from abroad. But in many areas there are significant local grievances among Uighur Muslims who resent restrictive measures directed at their religious and cultural practices.

The events in Beijing, whether linked to Xinjiang or not, are likely to cause real concern. They happened just a few hundred metres from where China's leaders will gather, at the Great Hall of the People, in less than two weeks for a Communist Party Plenum. It is a major policy meeting to set the direction for China's future economic development.



http://www.fnotw.org/Article/Full/5930

 

[bolo]

What is the hidden goal behind? No one knows

Damian Grammaticas, a Chinese respondent from BBC analyzed the car crash as:
There have been many more violent incidents and dozens of deaths across Xinjiang in the past five years. Often these have involved clashes between Uighurs and local police, government and security personnel.

Authorities usually blame "separatists" and "terrorists" who they say are inspired, funded and trained from abroad. But in many areas there are significant local grievances among Uighur Muslims who resent restrictive measures directed at their religious and cultural practices.

The events in Beijing, whether linked to Xinjiang or not, are likely to cause real concern. They happened just a few hundred metres from where China's leaders will gather, at the Great Hall of the People, in less than two weeks for a Communist Party Plenum. It is a major policy meeting to set the direction for China's future economic development.



http://www.fnotw.org/Article/Full/5930

Lol. If that is true Uighur are more stupid than I thought. Now ccp can crack down harder on separatists under "public safety". You just lost whatever freedom you had.

 

[Wholegrain]

Fort Zeelandia vandalised by Chinese tourists, according to Taiwanese reports
Monday, 14 October, 2013

Chinese tourists were seen damaging a historical site and exhibiting unruly behaviour on a recent visit to southern Taiwan during the China’s Golden Week holiday, according to a Taiwanese media report.

Witnesses told television station TVBS that they had seen Chinese tourists using their fingers to poke and dig away at the fragile mortar and concrete walls of Fort Zeelandia, a grade-one national heritage site in city of Tainan.

A building with a history ranging more than 400 years, the Fort’s exterior walls have endured centuries of weathering and erosion and is now vulnerable to vandalism by tourists, the report said.

The newscast added that the tourists, speaking Chinese dialects, continued trying to hollow out the walls of the fort despite staff efforts to intervene.

In addition, some Chinese tourists were seen smoking and spitting inside the site, openly flouting the site’s warning signs.

Greater Tainan Cultural Affairs Bureau Director Yeh Tse-shan confirmed to Taipei Times that the behaviour of the Chinese tourists had violated the nation’s Cultural Heritage Preservation Act. But he also indicated the difficulties in curbing such misconduct.

“The Fort Zeelandia site is spread over a large area. It is hard to hire enough guards to monitor every spot,” Yeh was cited as saying.

He also dismissed a suggestion of erecting barriers to separate tourists from the site, saying the construction could risk damaging the site as well.

According to Taiwan’s heritage preservation law, those who are found guilty of damaging heritage sites can be punished with imprisonment of up to five years and fines between TW$200,000 and $1,000,000 (HK$53,000 and HK$265,000).

Yeh said in general heritage sites are reliant on tour guides and volunteer staff to help supervise tourists’ behaviour and explain regulations to them.

Chinese tourists damaged historical site, says Taiwan media | South China Morning Post

It would be a shame if Fort Zeelandia, a reminder of the humiliation of western colonialists at the hands of Chinese, would be damaged. Fort Zeelandia is war booty captured from the Dutch occupiers in 1662. It should be preserved as a warning to people like you, Krueger.

 

[Chronos]

Chinese according to world rankings are considered the world' second worst tourists.

They have a habit of spitting, and particularly de facing historical monuments.

If oyu can't repect otherpeople's cultural heritage, the Chinese should stay in their own goddamn country and do something productive.

Lie stabbing Children or something

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Chinese according to world rankings are considered the world' second worst tourists.

They have a habit of spitting, and particularly de facing historical monuments.

If oyu can't repect otherpeople's cultural heritage, the Chinese should stay in their own goddamn country and do something productive.

Lie stabbing Children or something

The Chinese have become the biggest source of international tourism and with a large crowd there is bound to be some bad elements amongst them. We in the EU welcome more Chinese tourists coming to see our monuments and spend loads of money on our luxury products.

It's non of sour grape Indians' business, who are too poor to travel, what the Chinese do with their time and money.

We welcome Chinese tourists to the European Union!

 

[Tanja]

• A brief history of Taiwan under Chiang

Though adept at slaughtering civilians, Chiang’s KMT proved less so at fighting soldiers, and before long Mao’s communist forces had driven the KMT from the mainland. Fully defeated, Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, followed by a steady stream of soldiers, monks, artists, peasants and intellectuals. One of the first things Chiang did when he arrived in Taiwan was to send Chen Yi back to the mainland (he was later executed). By 1949, the ROC consisted of Taiwan, Penghu, and a number of islands off the Chinese coast including Matsu and Kinmen. These straits islands were quickly set up as military zones, both to rebuff any mainland attack and to set up a base of operations from which Chiang vowed he would use to retake the Chinese mainland.
On Taiwan, Chiang proved the able state governor that he never had been in China, instituting a series of land reform policies that successfully laid the foundation for Taiwan’s future economic success. While advertising his government in exile as ‘Free China, ’ based on the democratic ideals of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang’s Taiwan was anything but free. While economic development was swift, Chiang’s rule was quick to crush any political dissent. The White Terror era of the 1950s was a frightening time in Taiwanese history, when people literally disappeared if they spoke against the government. Political dissidents were either shipped to Green Island to serve long sentences or executed outright.
During the Korean War, the Americans were protective of Taiwan, assuring the Taiwanese that they would repel any communist attacks. Military outbreaks between China and Taiwan were common in the 1950s and 1960s, with Kinmen subjected to regular shelling. Events such as the August 23rd Artillery War kept Chiang’s ‘Free China’ firmly entrenched in the hearts and minds of anti-communist America. At the time of the KMT arrival, the Taiwanese had been heavily indoctrinated by the Japanese and spoke little Mandarin. They were also accustomed to a higher standard of living than the mainland Chinese and felt an ingrained superiority towards the poorer and less well-educated immigrants, especially soldiers who often came from humble backgrounds. The KMT issued laws requiring all Taiwanese to speak Mandarin, in an attempt to ‘resinicise’ the population. The Taiwanese resented the heavy handedness of the KMT, and there were various outbreaks of rebellion and clashes with military police.
Though Taiwan prospered during the 1950s and 1960s, her economy becoming one of the richest in Asia, and her population growing to 16 million, big changes were on the horizon as the 1970s began. In 1971, Chiang Kai-shek withdrew the ROC from the UN Security Council after the council’s admission of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In 1979, America, the ROC’s staunchest international ally, switched official recognition from the ROC to the PRC. US policy towards Taiwan would now be dictated by the Taiwan’s Relations Act, which, while promising to protect Taiwan militarily in the case of attack by mainland China, recognised Beijing as the sole capital of a China which included Taiwan.



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