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Background: In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using the 1946 constitution drawn up for all of China. Over the next five decades, the ruling authorities gradually democratized and incorporated the native population within the governing structure. In 2000, Taiwan underwent its first peaceful transfer of power from the Nationalist to the Democratic Progressive Party. Throughout this period, the island prospered and became one of East Asia's economic "Tigers." The dominant political issues continue to be the relationship between Taiwan and China - specifically the question of eventual unification - as well as domestic political and economic reform.

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By stepbystep
April 26th 2009

Miaoli Asia » Taiwan » Taichung

Fire Mountain

Miaoli is a county on the west coast of Taiwan that is full of beautiful mountains and parks. I have a good friend here, who, luckily for me, dreams of being a travel guide. So when she asked me if I wanted to go look at the flowers in Miaoli, I had no idea what I was in for. Our small group became four when two other Taiwanese teachers decided to join us and off we went. Up the small roads that wind around the mountain. Our first stop? A park that features an old train bridge with beautiful ruins. The [View Full Entry]

By Joe Hung Chou
January 6th 2009

Taichung Art museum Asia » Taiwan » Taichung

For warm sunshine in winter, to walk around the art museum in a really nice thing. Here with green trees and filled with fresh air, relazing and sitting on the wood floor, empty your brain without any thinkings. Hope i could have this kind of life in crowded Taipei city. But it seems to be a luxurious wish with nice weather in Winter. [View Full Entry]

By jenniferlpaul
April 12th 2008

The goddess Mazu- a year of good luck Asia » Taiwan » Taichung

Janice, Paul, Grace and I at Mazu

I'm so tired right now. Not surprising I guess, considering I had about 3 hours of sleep on Friday night. The train ride wasn't too bad- I had a really hard time finding the area where they sell tickets and ended up walking up and down stairs, and all around the station for about 25 minutes with that huge backpack on. I was sweaty and my back was hurting and people were laughing at me. Not fun. Finally when I found the ticket office, they couldn't speak any English or understand the piece of paper I gave them with "Yuanlin" written [View Full Entry]

By rosalind_marie
April 5th 2008

sorry about this Asia » Taiwan » Taichung

so, um, i've been reeeeally bad about updating this blog, and it's probably because it's not as user friendly as my old blog. nor does it have entries from as far back as high school. i'll try to make sure i post pictures and things here, but if you want to read my more regularly updated blog...and, er...the stuff i generally don't tell the public, here's the link to the blog i do post on: http://shyarra.livejournal.com/ it's not very good writing, and i'm sure i'll offend dozens of friends and family members on it, but... anyway. [View Full Entry]

By rosalind_marie
February 26th 2008

watching dumb kid's movies Asia » Taiwan » Taichung

so i've started work, and it's really difficult. i come home every monday absolutely exhausted after teaching seven periods straight and ending on my abominable ps3 class. so far, i'm two for two on migraines on mondays. hopefully that'll get better. being said, you still couldn't pay me enough to go back to hess. there's absolutely no comparison between ps3 and treehouse. i will never go back to six year olds. never. i missed the last half day of work today. vic came to me during fourth period, right before lunch, saying that the legal department needed my passport and, oh [View Full Entry]

By rosalind_marie
January 27th 2008

so if you're wondering Asia » Taiwan » Taichung

corporate banquet

...just what the hell is up with rosalind these days (or marie, if you're from my prehistoric days), here's a brief update. i went to this chinese new year banquet for hess, and i was terrified. i'm working for a corporation, and it took six months to hit me. my goal in life was to never go corporate, and i've already given in at the age of 22. depressing. so i've got a new job. i really had been looking for something that would start in august, when my contract was up, but then i saw this ad on tealit... washington [View Full Entry]

By rosalind_marie
January 1st 2008

Belated Happy Holidays! Asia » Taiwan » Taichung

Actually it's January 2nd here...but that's beside the point. I wish I could have been home for Christmas (HOW I wish it, but that's a story for another time, when I'm feeling better and actually ready to giggle about my landlady...maybe in ten years), but I have a - sorta - Christmas present for everyone. I finally got around to playing with my graduation footage! So here's a dorky little video I made...enjoy! [View Full Entry]

By rosalind_marie
December 20th 2007

Internet Abounds Asia » Taiwan » Taichung

Performance Day

As do pictures! Hey everyone, I'm really sorry that I haven't updated this thing since August. I have to type up all of my diary entries and backdate them for you. I've moved, and I'm now lving in a place that has internet (and it's part of the rent, too---huzzah!). So I figured I'd wish everyone a Merry Christmas (especially since, with my record, you proabably won't get your Christmas cards until February or March). Life is pretty quiet. I went to the Christmas celebration for my church. St. Patrick's is this tiny little parish with one English mass a week [View Full Entry]

By rosalind_marie
August 26th 2007

Reminiscing Asia » Taiwan » Taichung

Last of the States

The amazing thing about Hess is that the moment you threaten to quit, they do everything in their power to accommodate you. I think I’ll be keeping kindy. To be honest, I’m really just paid to be a white person in the classroom, and two-and-a-half hours go so quickly that my mistakes seem minimal anyway. Besides, I’m only doing this for three years. The reason for that decision is simple: people seem to go insane if they stay in Taiwan for longer than three years - that, or they marry a Taiwanese woman. Which might be the equivalent of going [View Full Entry]

By Nutmeg
August 22nd 2007

Last Day of Classes Asia » Taiwan » Taichung

Tea Time

First off, I logged onto travelblog.com today and was pleasantly surprised to find that many of my pictures from older blog entries have been recovered. Awesome! Because I don't have the time or energy to re upload them. Now all they need are captions-stay tuned. Today was the final day of classes, which is hard to believe. I can remember writing my entry 'First Day of Classes', and wow does that seem like so long ago. As last Friday was the final, this week was sort of pointless. Monday had somewhat structured classes, Tuesday we watched movies, and today we had [View Full Entry]

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