Tag: Taipei

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It wasn’t love at first feel with Taipei City for me

Post author By Flying Dutchman
Post date June 3, 2020
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Luckily, in Taipei many of these buildings are now gone.

Although nowadays it’s a very livable city, Taipei in the 1980s was a pretty messy place to live.

Tags Asia, Berlin, Formosa, Garbage Island, MRT, Peking, Pollution, Recycling, Taipei, Taiwan

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The bombing of Taihoku, capital of Japanese Taiwan

Post author By Flying Dutchman
Post date May 31, 2020
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The Japanese Governor General’s Office, now the Presidential Palace, was heavily damaged in 1945.

For decades, the air raid on then Japanese-controlled Taipei in May 1945 was an ignored chapter of World War II in Asia.

Tags Air raid, Asia, Battle of Okinawa, Chiang Kai-shek, Donald Trump, Hsinchu, Japan, Japanese Taiwan, Lee teng-hui, Mao Tse-tung, Nippon, Pacific War, Pearl Harbor, Subic Bay, Taihoku, Taipei, Taiwan, Tsai Ying-wen

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Civilizational swaggering in Free China in the 1980s

Post author By Flying Dutchman
Post date May 18, 2020
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Two large islands in the Eastern Mediterranean: Crete to the west and Cyprus to the east

In the 1980s, people in Taiwan were still proud of their Chinese cultural heritage. Sometimes, I mentioned places in Europe which also have an impressive history, like Cyprus.

Tags Alexander the Great, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Cultural Revolution, Cyprus, East Asian Institute, Free China, Great Wall of China, Mandarin Training Center, Mao, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People's Liberation Army, Red China, Taipei, Taiwan, Uighurs

Customs and traditions Taiwanese politics

Taiwan 2019: same-sex marriage introduced against majority will

Post author By Flying Dutchman
Post date May 17, 2020
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Veteran gay activist Chi Chia-wei at Gay Pride Taipei 2016

Same-sex marriage was legalized in Taiwan exactly one year ago after the nation’s highest court had ruled in favor in 2017, but against a majority of the population.