Established in 1887 when Taiwan was still governed by China’s Qing Dynasty, Chang Jung was the first girls’ senior-high school — at the time a private institution — to offer Western-style classes. The school required the young women to have unbound feet and taught them how to write, count and embroider. Liu Tsai-sang (劉採桑), 98, said that the girls’ dormitory was on the second floor of the “Red Building,” named for its color. Chen An-ching (陳安靜), 94, brought an embroidery piece to the celebration that she finished as a student at the school 76 years ago. The school is considering turning a section of the Red Building into a school museum, dean Tsai Yu-min (蔡玉敏) said, adding that the school would call on all alumnae to donate photographs, mementos or accounts of their school days.
