Watching a great swath of northern China become a colony of Japan, Liu Chin-tang, who himself was born in the Japanese colony of Taiwan and grew up there for twenty years, painted the huge "Abandoned" and "The Descendants of Taiwan."
眼見華北一帶也將淪為日本的殖民地，生長在殖民地台灣二十年的劉錦堂，畫出了大幅的「棄民圖」與「台灣遺民圖」。