Scenery of Kending (Kenting) Area

• Kenting National Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBoLujq8Igo

• An American lady’s trip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rya1oQixi2U

• Sheding Nature Park hiking and Kending tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JJrqF0wTRA

• Chris Urchin’s trip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP8ECWSYuaM

History of Foreign Conflicts in Kending (Kenting) Area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Formosa

During the 38 years (1624-1662) of Dutch’s ruling Taiwan (Formosa) in the 17^th century, there were numerous conflicts between Dutch and local Aborigines. Especially the Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa was a series of military actions and diplomatic moves undertaken in 1635 and 1636 by Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Dutch-era Taiwan (Formosa) aimed at subduing aboriginal villages in the southern island. As such, most aboriginal tribes have been very hostile to the foreigners for hundreds years.

March, 1867, American Merchant Ship Rover Incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_incident

Due to the special location of Kending coastal line, there were many shipwrecks in the area.

The Rover Incident (羅發號事件) occurred on March 12, 1867 when the American merchant ship Rover, en route from Shantou/ China to Yingkou/ China shipwrecked off the coast of south Taiwan, near Kending area. The American sailors were all killed by Taiwanese Aborigines in revenge for earlier killings of Kaolut tribe members by Europeans (Dutch?).

Subsequently, the U.S. military decided to send a military expedition against the tribe members responsible. A United States Navy and marine company landed in Kending area and skirmished with the Paiwan aboriginals until the Americans withdrew without completing their objective of decisively defeating the natives in battle. The event is regarded as a failure in United States Naval history.

December 18, 1871 Mudan incident (琉球漂流民殺害事件)

https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Mudan_incident_(1871)

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Taiwan_(1874)

It was the massacre of 54 Ryukyuan sailors in Qing-era Taiwan after their ship was shipwrecked at Bayao Bay, northeast of Kending

The Japanese punitive expedition to Taiwan in 1874, referred to in Japan as the Taiwan Expedition (In Chinese: 牡丹社事件), was a punitive expedition launched by the Japanese in retaliation for the murder of 54 Ryukyuan sailors by Paiwan aborigines near Kending area in December 1871. The success of the expedition, which marked the first overseas deployment of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy, revealed the fragility of the Qing dynasty's hold on Taiwan and encouraged further Japanese adventurism.

“Confrontation Over Taiwan” has more Taiwanese History in the Nineteen Century

https://www.amazon.com/Confrontation-over-Taiwan-Nineteenth-Century-Powers/dp/0739118692

During this time the western powers and Japan were engaged in imperialist designs seeking commercial and strategic gain in the South China Sea, which ultimately led to the Japanese colonization of Taiwan.