2024.12.23-2025.10.26

Taiwan's language policy has been shaped by two periods of "National Language Movement" under Japanese colonial rule (1895-1945) and authoritarian rule (1945-1992), which prioritized "Mandarin" and marginalized native languages, hindering their growth.

The exhibition displays the limitations imposed upon the people by those language policies and explores how such policies influenced the victims under the White Terror. In this way, people can understand how the "national language" policy slowly wiped out the native tongues of different ethnic groups and pushed them to the risk of extinction. It was not until 1987 when the martial law was lifted that both the public and private sectors began promoting the inheritance, revitalization, and re-development of native tongues as the country's policy.