The Penghu Islands, also known as Pescadores (from Portuguese: "fishermen") are an archipelago off the western coast of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait consisting of 90 small islands and islets covering an area of 141 square kilometers. Though claimed by both the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China, they are administered by Taiwan.

The whole archipelago forms Penghu County of Taiwan, the archipelago along with the island of Taiwan, composed the former Japanese territory of Formosa.

Peng-hu was first recorded in unofficial historical records and regional logs in 1171 during the Southern Song Dynasty. From the middle of the 17th century to 1895, Taiwan and the archipelago were ruled by pirates, the colonial Dutch Empire (attempts at conquest from 1622 onward), the Koxinga kingdom (Tungning), and the Qing Dynasty, successively.

The Penghu archipelago was captured by the French in March 1885, in the closing weeks of the Sino-French War, and evacuated four months later. The Pescadores Campaign was the last campaign of Admiral Amédée Courbet, whose naval victories during the war had made him a national hero in France. Courbet was among several French soldiers and sailors who succumbed to cholera during the French occupation of Penghu. He died aboard his flagship Bayard in Makung harbour on 11 June 1885.

Timi Zhuo Yi-Ting (卓依婷) (born October 2, 1981) is a prominent singer from Taiwan. She has recorded about 876 songs in Mandarin and Taiwanese (Hokkien).

Timi was born Hsinchuang, Taiwan on October 2, 1981. When she was about the age of 5, her parents introduced her to the world of show business (singing, music, acting). She did many TV commercials and advertisement until the age of 6, when she released her first Hokkien album.

She was skilled at the piano at a very young age. Zhuo was such a young and beautiful girl when she started her singing career that she was given the name "Small Princess."

From 1986 to 1991, she starred in many hokkien movie series, including: 酒矸通卖否, 风雨情 (Sentiment of the Wind and Rain), 君在何处, 爱你入骨, 隔壁亲家, 顺天圣母, 忠义八犬传, 你是我最爱的人, 小天才, 妈妈, 冷冷的怒, 三八亲母, 春风秋雨, 盖世皇太子 and 菜鸟配凤凰. In that time period, she also recorded many music albums, mostly in hokkien.

She released a series of hokkien classical songs 歌坛小公主 (The Singing Princess), featuring her playing the piano or guitar as she sings or dancing. A famous release when she was 9 was the 黄金九岁山歌黄梅调 (Golden 9 years: Huang mei diao Chinese opera) mandarin opera songs where she starred as both boy and girl in each duet and her first Chinese New Year album. She came out with her first original hokkien hit, 妈妈在哪里 (Where’s Mama?) in 1990.