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October 11, 1876, Taiwan's Keelung coal started using machine for mining. The history of Taiwan's coal mining is an example of modernization in the contexts of mutual accommodation between the traditional society and modern technology, in the great background of Western powers' interventions. About a detailed analysis of this example you may refer to our research finding: Huang Chia-mu, Coal in Taiwan before the Sino-Japanese War.
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