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The Living History of Dadaocheng

By: Taiwan Scene 2017-11-152021-02-08

Arts, Urban Exploration & Exhibitions In Taiwan | Taiwan Scene, Places, Taipei City, Travel to Northern Taiwan | Taiwan SceneCulture, Dadaocheng, Taipei1 Comment

Modern Taipei is a massive city overlaid by a spider web of intercrossing metro lines on which you can spend 90 minutes getting from one end of town to the other. But Old Taipei, which sprang alongside the eastern bank of the Danshui river, was a smaller place, and much of it fit neatly inside the confines of a city wall, among the last built in the waning days of the Qing dynasty.

The Old Taipei – Introducing the City’s Dadaocheng Area

By: Taiwan Scene 2015-09-092019-05-21

Activities, Arts, Urban Exploration & Exhibitions In Taiwan | Taiwan SceneDadaocheng, History, September, Tea, Temple2 Comments

If you want to know more in general about a foreign place, you want to ask a local. If you want to know more about the culture and history of a foreign place, you want to ask a local expert. Travel in Taiwan recently did just this, paying local historian Zhuang Yong-ming a visit to learn more about one of Taipei City’s oldest districts, Dadaocheng, before going on an exploration tour of the area.