A town's resilience, rebuilt after 921.
Dongshi Junior High School was established in 1946, in the same postwar wave of school-founding that shaped much of Dongshi District. It has run an arts-talent dance program since 1981, a rare long-running specialty for a small-town junior high. The 1999 921 earthquake destroyed the campus, and reconstruction was carried out with support from the Tzu Chi Foundation, a Buddhist charity — an episode still remembered locally as a marker of the town's post-quake resilience.
東勢國民中學創立於民國35年（1946年），與東勢區戰後初期的建校浪潮同期成立。學校自1981年起開辦舞蹈才能班，是小鎮國中中少見的長期特色課程。1999年921大地震摧毀校舍，重建工程獲佛教慈濟基金會援助，這段歷史至今仍是當地社區記憶中震後重生韌性的象徵。
What makes this school worth knowing.
💃 A Dance Program Since 1981
舞蹈才能班傳承
The school has run an arts-talent dance program continuously since 1981, a decades-long specialty uncommon for a small rural junior high.
🙏 Rebuilt With Tzu Chi's Help
慈濟援建重生
After the 921 earthquake destroyed the campus in 1999, the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation helped fund reconstruction, tying the school's recovery to a wider tradition of disaster-relief charity in Taiwan.
🏘️ A Postwar Foundation
戰後建校
Founded in 1946 as part of the wave of schools established across Dongshi in the years after WWII, serving the town's growing Hakka farming families.
Recovery through communal charity.
The rebuilding of Dongshi Junior High with Tzu Chi Foundation support after the 921 earthquake reflects the town's broader experience of communal recovery through Buddhist charitable aid. See the Taichung county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
Sec. 5, Dongguan Rd., Dongshi District, Taichung City, Taiwan
臺中市東勢區東關路5段
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