caption death_date children birth_place nationality parents birth_date image article_title name occupation
mona rudao statue and wushe incident monument 1 july 1930 3 taiwan taiwan under japanese occupation luhe rudao 21 may 1880 mona_rudao_statue_and_wushe_incident_monument , taken_by_fanglan . jpg mona rudao
 mona rudao chief of mahebo
mona rudao

mona rudao , or mouna rudao -lrb- 1882 -- 1930 -rrb- was the son of a chief of the seediq tribe of taiwanese aborigines .
in 1911 , he made a visit to japan .
he succeeded his father as a chief of the village of mahebo 馬赫坡 and became one of the most influential chiefs of the area of wushe .
mona rudao was from the tgdaya group of the seediq .
he became famous for having carried out the revolt of wushe in what is now nantou county in 1930 against the japanese authorities .
he ended up committing suicide by shooting himself with a pistol during the revolt to prevent the japanese from capturing him alive .
his remains were found at forest in 1933 , and were taken to the department of archaeology of the taihoku imperial university where they were exhibited as a warning to future rebels .
the bones were `` identified '' by his daughter and not positively confirmed by dna .
after the arrival of the kuomintang the bones were placed in a warehouse until 1974 when they were reburied near the kawanakajima -lrb- 川中島 , current chingchuan -lrb- 清泉 -rrb- -rrb- tribe .
the taiwanese viewed him as a hero for carrying out a revolt and he is now one of the figures on new taiwan dollar coins .
in 2005 the kuomintang displayed a massive photo of mona rudao at its headquarters in honor of the 60th anniversary of taiwan 's retrocession from japan to the republic of china .
mona rudao has been part of taiwanese popular culture , entering books and manga .
his character took the part of protagonist in the 2003 tv drama dana sakura w : zh : 風中緋櫻 and the 2011 taiwanese film '' '' .
