樂生活 Wallpapers

“short documentary”

Lo-Sheng Sanatorium, the only leprosy isolation hospital in Taiwan. In the past, due to limited medical knowledge and widespread public fear, the government forcibly quarantined more than a thousand patients. Through successive regimes — the Japanese colonial government, the Kuomintang’s authoritarian rule, and the post-reform democratic government — people with leprosy spent their entire lives in the institution, living there for fifty or sixty years, stripped of their human rights and gradually forgotten by society. Today, although they appear to have stepped out of the past and re-entered society, the construction of the Sinjhuang Line （now part of the Zhonghe–Xinlu Line up to 2025) (MRT) has brought renewed displacement...