Mainland China is seeing a surge in interest over ‘invisible martyrs’ such as Wu Shi, a KMT defector who was executed in Taipei in 1950
6-MIN READ6-MINXinlu Liangin FuzhouPublished: 6:00am, 2 May 2026Fujian province, the closest mainland Chinese province to Taiwan, is an important site for Beijing’s messaging towards the island. In the first of a two-part series, Xinlu Liang examines how Beijing is framing the executions of Communist Party spies in Taiwan within a reunification narrative.A courtyard house in an old quarter of Fuzhou, capital of the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, has become the unlikeliest of national pilgrimage sites.
For decades, the residence at No 1 Jiangqiandeng in Luozhou town, Cangshan district, was a crumbling relic, housing nearly a dozen families who lived among peeling paint and rotting wood close to the tree-lined banks of the Min River.
Since April, it has since been designated as one of the country’s 25 “National Security Education Bases” – sites used to promote national security awareness.
