Department Introduction
The Zhang Xueliang Cultural Park, located in Taoshan Village, Wufeng Township, Hsinchu County, was the location where Zhang Xueliang along with his secretary Chao Yiti was sent to in secrecy in 1946. It was not until 1957 that Zhang Xueliang was granted the permission to leave. In 2014, the Zhang Xueliang Cultural Park was rebuilt at the precise location of the former residence of Zhang Xueliang in order to present the historical meaning of Zhang being held under house arrest at Cingcyuan. Zhang Xueliang, also known as “the Young Marshal”, was the firstborn of Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the Fengtian Clique. He also played a critical role in influencing the development of the modern history of China. In 1936, Zhang along with Yang Hucheng instigated the Xi’an Incident, in which Chiang Kai-shek, the Chairman of the Nationalist Government, was arrested in order to force him to enter into a truce with the insurgent Chinese Communist Party and form a united front against Japan. Although the incident ended rather peacefully, it was decided to put Zhang under constant watch by the Military Commission, and from then his life of house arrest of over 50 years started. Wufeng Cingcyuan hot springs area was the first stop of Zhang and Chao when they were sent to Taiwan. Through the public display of the photographs, manuscripts and declassified documents that depicts the moments of their life at Cingcyuan, the mysterious history of their life of imprisonment known to the little was finally unveiled to the public.
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