Taiwan Archive

Window on China / Xiao Ren Guo

Posted on August 27, 2010 | No Comments
Window on China is kind of a misnomer, depending on your perspective. What I mean is, I personally believe that Taiwan isn’t China. Considering that the majority of their exhibits are on Taiwan, the name is mostly incorrect. I say “mostly” because there are a...
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Streets Saturday Features for Week 33

Posted on August 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
I spent a chunk of last week in the city of Hualien, located in central Taiwan. That being the case, none of the photos in this week’s series were taken in Taipei. I will be posting more images from out-of-town later on. As always, comments...
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Happy Father’s Day

Posted on August 8, 2010 | No Comments
In the Mandarin Chinese language, the words for “eight” and “Father” are almost-homophones. Logically, this would make August 8th (8/8) Father’s Day in China, Taiwan, Singapore, etc… So happy Father’s Day to everyone out there in Sino-land.
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Streets Saturday Features

Posted on July 31, 2010 | No Comments
So, it’s confirmed. My family’s annual pilgrimage to Ocean Park in central Taiwan starts in a week-and-a-half from today. It’ll just be for a couple of days, but it’ll be a couple days in a different place from where I am now, which is the...
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Tomica (Tomy) 40th Anniversary in Taipei

Posted on July 25, 2010 | 3 Comments
Being born in the 70s in America, and thus a child of the 80s, I was raised on Hot Wheels. Remember those bendy blue plastic tracks? Little did I know that 10,000 kilometers to the left of me there were kids playing with die cast...
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World Chocolate Wonderland, Taipei, Taiwan

Posted on July 18, 2010 | 4 Comments
From July to September the National Taiwan Science Education Center (NTSEC) in Taipei is playing host to exhibits from the World Chocolate Wonderland. The World Chocolate Wonderland is a new (opened January of this year) theme park in Beijing, PRC and I suspect that this...
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