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Hall of the Scouts of China in Zhongshan District, Taipei is the headquarters of the Scouts of China. In 1945, Chinese administration of Taiwan began. A few years later, in 1949 the ROC government relocated to Taiwan, where it remains today. However, Scouting has continued in Taiwan to this day under the name Scouts of China. [2] [4] [6]
The 1st Dragon Troop, formed in 1909 and registered 1910, was the earliest Scout Troop in the Far East. It was destined to evolve into a viable British Association of British and English speaking Scouts whose nationalities were of more than forty countries, and who were full-time residents of the "International Settlement," at Shanghai, which had been a treaty port of China since 1842.
The Scouting Movement was banned by the Chinese Communist Party after it consolidated its power throughout the Mainland following its victory in the Chinese Civil War 1949. However, Scouting was re-introduced in Shanghai and Shanghai Scout Club (currently known as Shanghai Scout) was founded in December 2006.
The Republic of China also has active expatriate Scout groups, including two organizations focused on serving children of American military families living in Taiwan Area and elsewhere in eastern Asia and the western Pacific: USA Girl Scouts Overseas, and Boy Scouts of America, serviced by the Taiwan District of the Far East Council. [1]
Scout training was first introduced to boys in Hong Kong in 1909 and 1910, only a few years after the beginning of the Scout movement in the United Kingdom, when Rev. Spink started a Boys' Brigade Company attached to the St. Andrew's Church in Kowloon, in response to popular requests for Scouting activities in the expatriate community of Hong Kong. [3]
Hong Kong Girl Guides Association (Chinese: 香港女童軍總會) is the sole Guide organisation in Hong Kong. It was formally established in 1919 though the first Girl Guides Company was formed in 1916. The association became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1978. It serves 55,145 members.
Yen Chia-lin (Chinese: 嚴家麟; pinyin: Yán Jiālín), also known as Benjamin Yen (1890-1967), was the founder of Scouting in China. [1] He studied at Boone University and became an ordained minister in 1916.
Boy Scouts of Manchukuo Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Scouting and Guiding in China .