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Pictures of Taipei

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June 26th 2007
As I was looking through some of the pictures I have taken I realized that I needed to write a posting about some of the things we've been seeing around Taipei - some very foreign, some familiar. One immediately and obviously different experience is the traffic. It is chaotic and complex, but somehow flows amazingly efficiently. The largest difference from traffic in U.S. cities is the use of ... read more

Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

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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 th... ... read more