Over a century has passed since a crisis in coastal defense prompted the Chinese government to separate Taiwan from Fujian and establish it as a separate province. The administrative organizations that have run Taiwan since then have gone by many different names over the years. During the Latter years of the Qing dynasty, the provincial government was known as the Governor's Office.
台灣自清光緒因海防告急而與福建省分治建省以來，已經百年。