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Now that we're well into Formosa Files season three, your co-hosts add some background to stories we've told, try to clear up misconceptions about the ROC’s exit from the United Nations, make some “controversial” comments on Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and finally, we agree that Mongolia is an independent country, which the Republic of China (Taiwan) also agreed is a fact, in 2002.
Cover images - Left: Taiwan competing in the 1960 Rome Olympics under the (IOC-mandated) name “Formosa.” The ROC was so upset, it had its Olympic delegation enter the stadium with a sign reading, “Under Protest.” Right: The team was required to use “Taiwan 中華民國” at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. (Pics via Saturday Evening Post/Reddit r/taiwan)
1. A scowling ROC squad enters the arena in Rome, protesting the International Olympic Committee's requirement they use the name “Formosa.” (Image via Getty).
2. A happier team marches into the 1964 Tokyo games after being allowed to use the designation: “Taiwan 中華民國.” The flag bearer is Maysang Kalimud, better known as C.K. Yang, an Amis Indigenous Taiwanese decathlete who won silver that year. We told his wonderful HERE.
3. A 1947 map of all the claimed territory of the Republic of China and Outer Mongolia. (Via Wikimedia Commons)
4. Left: Soong Qing-ling, an extremely influential woman in modern Chinese history. Right: Soong Qing-ling stands with her husband, Sun Yat-sen. They married in 1915. Sun, however, had been married before, and, as was apparently still the custom, also had mistresses. For more info, check out: Wives and Mistresses of Kuomingtang Leaders.
5. The four women that were a part of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's life: Lu Muzhen (top left), Kaoru Otsuki (top right), Chen Cuifen (bottom left), Soong Ching-ling (bottom right). (Via Wikimedia Commons)
Check our very first episode, the story of a very white man who showed up in London in 1703... and claimed to be from Formosa. Or try a foodie episode from Season 3. Or, for those who want some harder-core history, hear the tale of the Lockheed U-2 pilot Wang Hsi-chueh 王錫爵, who became was famous for defecting to the PRC by hijacking China Airlines Flight 334 on May 3, 1986.
