The Land Where It's Already Tomorrow, Chapter 13: Move on a Motorbike, Bilingual Liquoring Up, South Towards Taitung October 16th 2006 A few years ago, my friend Jean gave me a nice Chinese name, and designed a signature chop for me. One of the characters in my Chinese name is “history” and the other is “virtue”, from which the reader might reasonably infer that my virtue is history.
Well, I used my Chinese signature stamp when I applied for my Alien Resident Certificate. When my National Health card arrived last week, ... read more
Asia » Taiwan » Hualien 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
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This is the story of our first year living and working in Hualien County, on the east coast of Taiwan ROC. I am a schoolteacher in the junior high in Guangfu Township, and Lao-puo (Suzanne) studies Chinese at Buddhist Tzu Chi University in Hualien (where we live). My blog is called "The Land Where it's Already Tomorrow". The blog for our second year is now under way at http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Pagan-Dan/... full info