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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 LivingTheDream
September 15th 2009

Templed-out (Tainan, Taiwan) Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

Scary statue at Chihkan Towers (Fort Proventia)

(Day 529 on the road) We had wanted to see some Taiwanese temples, and we got more than we bargained for in Tainan. Tainan is famous for its abundance of beautiful temples, and people from all over flock to the city for this reason. Our guidebook recommended a walking route that takes in the main temples, and we had every intention to complete this walk. However, we failed, not miserably, but still. We managed to explore about four temples before the heat and the long distances between the temples forced us to abandon our venture. The four we did see however [View Full Entry]

Turtles at Chihkan Towers (Fort Proventia)

By 1050
August 25th 2009

Typhoon Morakot (2009) Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

7 August near 4:30AM

Here are a few photos taken in the middle of the first night during the storm. It's all from inside the apartment, nothing too great, but just gives a taste of the experience. Also 3 videos from the afternoon that add up to less than a minute - just some rain, a little tree flapping, and a few howls. [View Full Entry]

By 1050
August 24th 2009

Elementary Tainan Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

Sunny

Hear r sum pics ov kids i teach english to. they learn really good! Edinburgh Montessori School. [View Full Entry]

By 1050
June 23rd 2009

Love Milk Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

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A quick trip to Anping on the west side of Tainan. It was ruled by the Dutch for just 38 years but they are the ones who got the town started and established it as an important place for trade back in the 1600s. At that time Anping was an island, but since then there has been a build up of silt and it is now connected to Tainan. In 1661, some bastard named Koxinga was running away from enemies in mainland China, and ended up attacking Fort Zeelandia in Anping. The Dutch guy in charge of Anping at the time [View Full Entry]

By 1050
June 1st 2009

NienJeo Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

Ice cream

Tainan has a bunch of traffic circles. I am on Fucian Rd Sec. 1. Yeah, a lot of the roads have sections, not sure why. That's not so bad, but then a lot of streets will just change names once you go through an intersection. That's not helpful. Mostly that happens at the circles. They have english letters to let you know the street names too, but some are so similar, like Chenggong Rd and Chengrong Rd. Everything seems like a store around here. 7-11 is everywhere and they have slurpees, hot dogs, Budweiser and Busch, coffee too but its more [View Full Entry]

By Maddogstobbe
January 2nd 2009

Christmas in Taiwan: Caoling Historical Trail & Tainan Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

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We arrived in Fulong in early afternoon and found our way to the beginning of the Caoling Historical Trail (after a close call with a guard dog guarding an abandoned house). The hike took a few hours and we travelled through a thick forest and ended on a grassy cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Fortunately we arrived at the cliff before it got dark, although our hike down into the town of Dali was a bit frightening in the pitch black. This trail was built in 1807 to connect two cities (Danshui and Ilan) and the section that remains today is [View Full Entry]

By Alison Belle
March 11th 2008

The Year of the Rat begins... Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

Chinese New Year Party

First of all, I want to apologize to all of my faithful subscribers for the lack of blog postings. It's been a crazy couple of months without much computer access, but I promise there will be more blogs in the future. You can especially look forward to July and August when I will be traveling around Asia :) So, I have been living in Taiwan for 8 months now, which means I will be leaving in about 4 more months. This has truly been a life-changing year. Living in another country combined with a physically limiting back problem has helped me [View Full Entry]

By Alison Belle
January 6th 2008

Christmas & New Year's (Live from Taiwan.) Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

The feast

The two weeks before Christmas brought with them great sadness. I felt so homesick and spent much of my time longing for the comforts of home - my family, friends, American food, hot chocolate on a cold winter day, peppermint candy canes, Christmas trees, lights adorning the houses, etc. It was a depressing time for me and many other foreigners in Taiwan. The Christmas music plays here in every store, and decorations are everywhere....yet, it doesn't seem the same. I don't think people in Taiwan really understand the meaning of Christmas. But, how many of us in America really understand? [View Full Entry]

By Alison Belle
December 15th 2007

Escape to the Mountains Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

A beautiful sunset

First of all, let me apologize for my lack of communication! The computer I had broke, and I must send it back to America, where it will have a better home :) Therefore, my internet time is very limited, especially because my back won't let me sit for more than half an hour :( I also lost a lot of the pictures (saved on the computer) that I had planned to use to publish a blog in November. I have been thinking about all of you though, and there are so many things I wish I could share with you. This [View Full Entry]

By Alison Belle
October 30th 2007

Halloween, Taiwan-Style? Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

Friends forever :)

First of all, Happy Halloween to everyone! It seems that most of the world partied last weekend, as I have seen many costumed pictures floating around on the internet :) As for me, I was told that there would be mostly Western people at my friend's party because Taiwanese people do not celebrate Halloween. At about midnight, I looked around and realized that I was the only white girl there! I guess I've been living in Taiwan long enough that it's normal to me now. My night of laughter began when I opened the door to Brent's apartment and saw quite [View Full Entry]

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