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31: 521: 545: 509: 1251: 308: 533: 434:“according to recent news, some local representatives and organizations in Taipei City and Taipei County claimed that the 90% Losheng preservation plan proposed by CCA will severely delay the MRT construction. Hereby CCA reiterates that the 90% preservation plan, evaluated by Hsin-Lu cooperation, will lengthen the construction period for about four months, and appends a three billion budget to it. It is not true to say the MRT construction will be delayed for two to three years.” 1263: 256: 242:. Although the government built a new hospital building nearby for settling the patients, the proposed demolition of the original compound brought a series of debates and, later, a preservation movement. According to a survey conducted in March 2006, there were 165 Losheng residents living in the new hospital building and 52 living in the old compound or other places. 336:
business. The skyscraper-ish hospital buildings were designed mainly for housing short-term patients; therefore it has inadequate space for residents to move around freely. Moreover, the hospital management forbids patients from bringing with them personal belongings; from cooking; and from coming over to the front building. The policy is discriminative.
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planned to build a depot on the site where the sanatorium is. Chen Ching-Chuan (陳京川), the ex-director of Losheng, was opposed to this decision. He did three surveys among the patients to see what they thought and needed, shortly before he got demoted and reprimanded. Ever since, the patients have had
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Long before the depot construction was initiated, Loshen’s ex-director and history professionals have demanded a large-scale inspection of Losheng’s position as a historical site. The scholars appealed to the MRT Department that they should spare the Losheng Sanatorium, while they unanimously agreed
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In 2002, the new housing projects, Huei Long Hospital (迴龍醫院) was initiated, but instead of ‘houses’ which were earlier promised to the patients, the new director gave them two tall buildings with modern hospital facilities. It became clear that the new administration team intended to run a hospital
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During the 1930s, Losheng Sanatorium was the first leprosy hospital and the only public sanatorium for leprosy patients in Taiwan. It was designed for quarantine and treatment of lepers. With a force of sanitary police and medical officers; investigation, quarantine, and imprisonment of lepers was
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A protest march of thousands of people from all over the country took place in Taipei on the day that had been announced for the eviction of the remaining 45 residents of the Sanatorium. Hsu Po-jen (許博任) of the Youth Alliance for Losheng was reported as saying that more than 100 civic groups took
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conducted thoroughly from 1934 till the end of colonial governance of Japan. As a result, Losheng Sanatorium became the institution of compulsory quarantine as well as lifelong imprisonment for thousands of leprosy patients. The successive KMT regime inherited the policy in its early years.
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After the discovery of new leprosy treatment, patients were allowed to leave Losheng Sanatorium since 1954. However, many of them who had undergone chronic isolation and faced discrimination had little choice but to stay and had grown used to the settings.
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government to request the management of sanatorium to tear down the structure by 16 April 2007. Four students were arrested, and the protest organizers condemned police for the unnecessary violence against protesters.
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and served as an isolation hospital for leprosy patients. The Japanese government forced leprosy patients to live in this hospital. The first five buildings could house more than 100 patients.
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ruled that 39 buildings of Losheng Sanatorium should be preserved, 10 to be reconstructed or reconstituted in selected locations, and 6 to be demolished. The project budget would increase
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the entire site should be preserved. However, the officials unilaterally terminated the process of inspection, and decided the sanatorium should be torn down entirely.
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site. It has witnessed the inhumane treatment (such as discrimination and compulsory quarantine) of the lepers, who had undergone 70 years of government oppression.
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Taipei City Hospital System (branches: Heping Fuyou, Kunming, Linsen Chinese Medicine, Renai, Songde, Yangming, Zhongxiao, Zhongxing)
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has deemed the sanatorium a historical spot, that the MRT Department was pressured to rethink the possibilities of preservation.
1289: 544: 404:: The patients are forced to leave the place they spent their lives, suffering mentally and physically from the displacement. 967: 913: 821: 811: 714: 508: 398:: The Losheng Sanatorium is an important cultural asset for East Asia. The depot construction will turn it all into dust. 520: 962: 1299: 748: 694: 294: 646: 836: 373:
But the plan was altered by local politicians. It has been asserted that this is wrong for the following reasons:
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People who claimed that the Losheng Sanatorium should be preserved have raised the following issues:
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It was not until 2004, when Prof. John K.C. Liu (劉可強) came up with a symbiosis plan, and when the
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UN EXPERTS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER IMMINENT EVICTION OF TAIWANESE RESIDENTS IN LO-SHENG SANATORIUM
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Map of Xinzhuang Line zone DK196. The planned site for Xinzhuang depot includes the Sanatorium.
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There were scuffles as the authorities attempted to post the official notice issued by the
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There were heated debates and protests about plans to replace Losheng Sanatorium with a
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More background about the Losheng Sanatorium and the recent preservation campaign
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This press release concluded that it is untrue for the media and Department of
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means "happy life". The building was constructed in the 1930s during the
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It was also argued that the Losheng Sanatorium should be an accredited
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no access to the MRT construction plans and its related discussions.
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The MRT depot was originally planned to be built Yingpan (營盤) near
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Losheng Sanatorium's Preservation Movement English Homepage
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Rakusei Sanatorium for Lepers of Governor-General of Taiwan
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The activists held a sit-in protest in front of Premier
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Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
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Losheng Sanatorium Department of Health, Taiwan. R.O.C.
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New Taipei City Hospital (branches: Sanchong, Banqiao)
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Xinzhuang
New Taipei
Taiwan
Coordinates
23°38′04″N 120°58′14″E / 23.63444°N 120.97056°E / 23.63444; 120.97056
Type
Sanatorium
Chinese
pinyin
sanatorium
lepers
Xinzhuang District
New Taipei
Taiwan
Japanese colonial period
MRT
Japanese colonial period
Taipei Rapid Transit System
Zhonghe–Xinlu line
neutrality
disputed
conditions to do so are met
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Taipei Rapid Transit System
Xinzhuang Line
Council for Cultural Affairs
Fu Jen Catholic University
Fu Jen University Station

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