Penghu Hospital & Magong Branch of the Mackay Customs Office. During the Ming Dynasty, Penghu was a transit point for exporting ceramics to Southeast Asia. However, the Dutch, operating the East India Company in Jakarta, bypassed Penghu and established an Asian trading base in Taiwan. During the Ming Dynasty, Penghu was a transit point for exporting ceramics to Southeast Asia. However, the Dutch, operating the East India Company in Jakarta, bypassed Penghu and established an Asian trading base in Taiwan, leading to a significant decline in Penghu's status. During the Ming Dynasty, Penghu was a transit point for exporting ceramics to Southeast Asia. However, the Dutch, operating the East India Company in Jakarta, bypassed Penghu and established an Asian trading base in Taiwan, leading to a significant decline in Penghu's status. At the beginning of the Japanese colonial period, to control port trade in Taiwan, only four major ports – Keelung, Tamsui, Anping, and Kaohsiung – were initially opened. However, this severely affected the supply of daily necessities for the Taiwanese people, forcing the government to open eight additional "special import/export ports." Penghu's "Magong Port" was one of them. In 1906, the office building of the Anping Customs Mackay Branch was completed in Tsukiji-cho outside Magong's Yingxun Gate. The building was a two-story brick "watchtower" and was the first Western-style official building in the Penghu area at that time. In 1934, it was reorganized to be subordinate to the Kaohsiung Customs, hence it was called the "Magong Branch of the Kaohsiung Customs." Locals in Magong referred to it as the "Customs Office" (in Taiwanese Hokkien).
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