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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 SSTT snowboardsurfstaveltrain
April 5th 2009

Taiwan April 3 ++ Asia » Taiwan » Taipei » Danshui

April 3 So today I headed out to hit a few beaches. First up was Fulobg beach. It want a great beach and it had a decent lil wave. There was a river mouth splitting the beach so the waves had some form to it and the wind was off shore. The water felt around 60ish though. I walked around here a bit then hopped back on the train and headed to Dasi beach. This was a tiny town not much there. The surf spot was about 1/2 k down the road in a lil cove area called honeymoon beach. The [View Full Entry]

By Joe Hung Chou
April 5th 2009

Flower Season At April Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

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Flower season began since the end of March till April at National YammingShan park where is the backyark for Taipei citizens . Be afraid of being crowded on weekend, so we decided to wake up earily and took the bus up to the national park to visit in flower season. The weather in April was changeable , last week, it was so cold but on weekend, it was so hot ..but was still good for travelling. For the sake of arriving in the early morning , not so many touristors so far, that was so nice to walk around the [View Full Entry]

By Shanghai Sally
March 23rd 2009

Hockey Brings Us to Taipei Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

Serge and Anika
With Taipei 101 looming in the background

Last weekend we traveled with Westen’s hockey team to Taipei, Taiwan for three games with the local teams and lots of sightseeing. We were very fortunate to have four Taiwanese families on our team who really showed us the city. They made sure we made the most of our days there, squeezing in great food, Taipei 101, great food, the National Palace Museum, more great food, and, of course, hockey. In case you couldn’t guess, we never got hungry the whole time we were there! As we flew in we were thrilled to see mountains, forests and water. The city is [View Full Entry]

By TheLowes
March 20th 2009

Our Beginning Asia » Taiwan » Taipei » CKS International Airport

March 20, 11:24PM: We finally made it! To the airport that is. Thanks to my sister and Phil, Adam and I got to SFO at 10:00PM (You two rock!). With three hours to kill, we wondered around the domestic & international terminals and read our books. Cassie is currently reading Living Dead in Dallas; Adam is currently reading One Square Mile of Hell. It’s currently 1:24PM Bangkok time. We must stay awake for 9 more hours to stick to our new time zone for the next two weeks! Can we do it? I don’t think so….zzzzzzzzzzzzz. We miss Abby and Coco [View Full Entry]

By simon ives
March 7th 2009

India via Taiwan Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

I had planned to write my first entry for this trip in Taiwan but I was unable to get connected to the airport's WIFI network. And while writing in India would have been a simple process, I've instead been busying myself with showing my friends around and enjoying the great social atmosphere. Leaving Mt. Isa was a breeze and the flight down to Brisbane was smooth and comfortable. The cloud formations over Mt Isa were spectacular and continued for about half an hour into the flight. As seen from above the clouds could easily have been mistaken for fresh snowy slopes. [View Full Entry]

By Joe Hung Chou
February 13th 2009

Year Ox Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

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we went to visit different locations to take the well-colorful decoration of Ox in Taipei city after Friday night. Also , for the coming of Lantern festival last week, still have the different Lantern exhibition in the Sun Yei Shan Memorial hall square. Latenr festival is the most populous chinese and important festival nowaday in Taiwan with many different kinds of celebrations in many cities. [View Full Entry]

By funk
February 3rd 2009

Random stuff in Taiwan Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

Wulia
Hiking in the Gorge

So I havent been adding to this at all - whoops. Thought I would give it a try as I still have 20 mins of battery life left on the laptop Sean bought (Can you even believe he bought something?! Its so weird and fantastic all at the same time). A random thing happened when we picked up the laptop though, a bunch of people dressed up as Chinese dragons and a guy in a mask (I cant think of the word for it...) but Ill just say priest...but not a normal priest. They came into the store parading around giving [View Full Entry]

By Joe Hung Chou
February 1st 2009

CKS memorial Hall' exhibition Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

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With comfortable wind and sunshine in winter, Today really is good for picnic or walk along streets. So we decided to walk after our brunch in Xi Da area, of course CKS memorial hall is the first choice of my walking trip today. [View Full Entry]

By funk
January 31st 2009

First Day Out Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

After being sick for a few days me and Sean were finally able to go out and explore a little bit. We walked out to the danshui (?) river passing by streets that looked completely different from anything near the hostel we are staying in. Hoping to rent some bikes there we found out you either needed a passport or $2000NT per bike,...so needless to say we will return another day with our passports :) We started to head back to the hostel and found a really nice park in the middle of what seem to be highways. What I really [View Full Entry]

By Ken and Steven
January 21st 2009

Taipei, Taiwan Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

Just a quick note... We are in Taipei airport at the moment. After 14 hours on the plane, it is nice to be able to walk around the airport. Our next flight is from Taipei to Bangkok and then on to Krabi, Thailand our first destination. No pictures yet... Our next update will be in Krabi. Later... Steven & Ken [View Full Entry]

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