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Charmless morning

March 30th 2008
These photos were taken at 7am in Caotun, Nantou County, Taiwan. 7am is nice almost anywhere -soft morning air, birds, light traffic, stillness, morning dew, all that good stuff. Not so in many areas of Taiwan. I have wondered for a long time why it is that Taiwan's buildings are so hideously ugly, and I finally came to conclusion that when it came time to "designing and planning" these structures ... read more
Asia » Taiwan

Chinese/Taiwanese Flag 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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