1978 2020 Criminal guilty verdicts of teachers and students of Yanping College revoked Chu Chao-yang 朱昭陽（1903-2002） Lee Teng-hui 李登 輝  (1923-2020) (13).   Retiring from the Cooperative Bank I served as nine terms (Each term contained three years and my first term wasn’t a complete one.) of executive director since 1948 when I entered Cooperative Bank until 1974. The period lasted twenty-six years, over one fourth of a century. When I firstly came to Cooperative Bank, the bank had only over one hundred clerks and the business was about one fourth of that of the “three commercial banks”. The number of clerks exceeded two thousand when I was to retire and the business also exceeded that of the three commercial banks. The most comfort I felt about being in Cooperative Bank was I employed many university graduates, fostered and scouted talents and made able men coming forward in multitudes from the bank. Jing-chuan Wu, who used to serve as president of Chang Hwa...

phòa pò͘ chí, “shabby rags” with eggs served on banana leaf at lunch Photo credit 曾麗雲 (Jiasian People’s Association) showing her family handling the drupe in season "Rediscovering the heritage photographed in 1871"  This post is a follow-up to a story of the above title I wrote for Taipei Times - full story HERE . The oldest item, provided with evidence, I saw (and ate) on the day -  Cordia dichotoma drupes 破布子. It gets its Holo name (phòa pò͘ chí, “shabby rags”) because its leaves are often chewed to pieces by insects. The drupes, known in Mandarin as shùzǐ 樹子, are smaller than peanuts and yellowish-green when ripe. Archaeologists think cordia was consumed in quantity by the Siraya at least six hundred years ago. (fossil of this drupe is kept at  Nanke Archaeological Museum Tainan） Dā-lāo ( Sorghum nervosum var . Flexibile 散穗高粱. Tevorang taraw, Dutch taraun) Dā-lāo mochi. Tevorang specialty. The only 'Tevorang...