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Looking at our joint past, present and future
Taiwan & Netherlands
1624 is the beginning of the shared history between the Netherlands and Taiwan: in that year, the first Dutch arrived on Taiwan’s shores and established strongholds both in the south (present-day Tainan) and in the north (Tamsui).
Interaction between local inhabitants of the beautiful island Formosa and the Dutch (the Dutch East India Company, VOC) started from that year on. About 40 years later, in 1662, the Dutch were expelled by the famous general Cheng Cheng-kung (Koxinga). The Dutch were known in those days as “red-haired barbarians”. Hence, Fort San Domingo in Tamsui was named“Fortress of the Red-Haired Barbarians,” or in Chinese: 紅毛城.
The Dutch legacy in Taiwan is a “mixed bag” – to say the least. We are not naïve to the methods and motivation of the VOC: trade, profit and conversion often coming at a high human cost, and at the expense of indigenous and other local peoples. We will critically reflect on the Dutch role in that era as part of our series of events in 2024.
The Netherlands Office Taipei (NLOT) believes that “2024” is indeed a year that is worthy of being marked. We intend to organize a series of events and activities to mark and reflect on Dutch-Taiwanese links: past, present and future. And we hope to do so along two main “pillars”: innovation and culture. For this reason, we coined 2024: “Year of Netherlands Innovation and Culture”.
Guido Tielman
Representative
Netherlands Office Taipei
INNOVATION AND CULTURE PARADE
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Event sponsors
Heineken
Farglory
Boskalis
Shin Kong
Signify
NXP
KLM
China Airlines
Bronkhorst
Wanyuan Group
