Taiwan remained a colony for half a century, returning to Chinese rule only in 1945. Of the many activities held to commemorate the treaty's signing, one was especially outstanding. The Egret Cultural and Educational Foundation sponsored a photography exhibit entitled "One Hundred Years of Taiwanese Music." They presented a social history of music in Taiwan over the past century as it appears in photographic records.
在各界紀念馬關條約簽訂一百年的許多活動中，有一項顯得十分特別，是由財團法人「白鷺鷥文教基金會」所策劃的「影像中讀台灣音樂史」攝影展，希望透過社會史的角度，觀察過去一百年台灣地區的音樂圖像。