The Taiwan Esperanto Association was a Taiwan

Taiwan

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ese society founded to promote Esperanto

Esperanto

is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...

. It was active in Taiwan under Japanese rule

Taiwan under Japanese rule

Between 1895 and 1945, Taiwan was a dependency of the Empire of Japan. The expansion into Taiwan was a part of Imperial Japan's general policy of southward expansion during the late 19th century....

, notably Taipei

Taipei

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, during the 1920s and '30s

1930s

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. Its predecessor was the Japan Esperanto Association, Taiwan Branch, founded in 1913 by Kodama Shirô (児玉四郎). (The new Tajvana Esperantista Asocio, founded 1990, is historically unrelated.) The society exchanged its official monthly publication, La Verda Ombro ("The Green Shade"; 1919-1924), with many similar-minded societies overseas. The well-known political activist Liân Un-kheng (Lien Wenqing, 連溫卿) was the main editor.

In the early 1930s the society was active in internationalist

Internationalism (politics)

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 politics unrelated to Esperanto promotion. In 1932, for example, it attempted to publish an article in a leading paper condemning Japan's invasion of Manchuria

Manchuria

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; the article was censored by the Japanese authorities. In the following year it took part in an alliance to protest Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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Publication:

• Organized Study of Esperanto, a Textbook (in Japanese)