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An Urban Evolution

Smart-city proposals seek to utilize information and communications technology (ICT) to chart out a vision for creating cities that are more comfortable and sustainable. (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

Land of the Human Beings

Land of the Human Beings: Orchid Island (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

Creating Change

Creating Change: Gogoro eScooters (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

Smart Agriculture

With 12-channel-spectrum LED lights, YesHealth creates artificial sunlight that allows the farm to grow vegetables out of season. (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Scientific Illustrators

Chen Yi-Ming created Primitive Taipei, an imaginative rendering of the Taipei Basin 500 years ago, to stimulate public interest in preserving the natural world. (courtesy of Chen Yi-ming)

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Trendy Issues

How are artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, big data, cloud-based computing and other technological developments linking our lives and improving city administration? “Smart city” proposals are driving experimentation and interest in using these new technologies to address t ...more

Overseas Chinese

From Fish Scales to Functional Fibers

Tainan’s Textile Industry Goes Green

The textile industry and fish farming would seem to be very remote from each other. But in Tainan, a bastion of both aquaculture and textiles, there is a third generation of textile industry entrepreneurs who are boldly innovating to connect the two. They have taken the milkfish scales that are ...more

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Land of the Human Beings

Orchid Island

The ocean around Orchid Island is as clear as glass, as mysterious as a rock hidden in the depths. The air carries the primitive taste of salt, and the island’s aloof personality attracts countless people of a maritime bent to come and visit. It is one of the hardest to reach of Taiwan’s ...more

Art and Culture

Manga Master

The Extraordinary Talent of Chen Uen

He revolutionized graphic novels by introducing freehand brushstrokes from traditional Chinese painting into his work. He was described in the pages of Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper as a talent so rare and unconventional that he will remain peerless for decades. He has influenced ...more

Urban and Rural

Traditional Grocery Stores

A Window on a More Personal Age

Corner grocery stores once played an important role in the everyday lives of people in Taiwan. Today they are the last vestiges of vanishing traditional society. They arose to meet the needs of local communities, and place a high value on serving those communities. Their wares included cigarettes, a ...more

Crafty Fashion: Giving Taiwanese Manufacturing a Voice Through Design

Art and Culture

Crafty Fashion: Giving Taiwanese Manufacturing a Voice Through Design

Designers are often faced with the question of how to balance personal creativity with commerce. Taichung makes that balancing act a bit easier. Its relatively low rents and labor costs, and Taipei-comparable competitive pressures, make it more accommodating to experimental spaces, enticin ...more

Art and Culture

Documentaries of the 1960s

A Pioneering Decade for Taiwanese Cinema

Documentary films flourished in 1960s Taiwan. The films focused on such themes as family life and the routines of city dwellers, and often played out against a backdrop of the social issues of the time. What kind of era was it? What was on the minds of the directors of that day? Let us explore these ...more

Taichung, Future Capital of Smart Manufacturing

Trendy Issues

Taichung, Future Capital of Smart Manufacturing

The manufacturing sector is always changing to reflect contemporary trends of technological development. Since the steam engine ushered in the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, machines have been gradually replacing the power of man and beast. The Second Industrial Revolution at the end of ...more

Trendy Issues

Training Top-Flight Doctors:

Chang Gung Hospital’s Microsurgery Program

It is not yet 7 a.m., but already the conference room of the Plastic Surgery Department at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is filled with doctors preparing to take part in a morning microsurgery discussion meeting. They include surgeons from many different countries, who share their expe ...more

Urban and Rural

Te Feng again pushed the envelope on the use of wood with metal fasteners when building the wooden roof structure of the library at Min Chyuan Elementary School in Kaohsiung’s Namaxia District. (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Leisure and Travel

Chen Yi-ming is a pioneer of scientific illustration in Taiwan. He has been engaged in ecological surveys for years and has considerable experience in the field. (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

Trendy Issues

Smart Agriculture: Farming Goes High Tech (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Trendy Issues

One of the keys to Taiwan’s strong position in the global edamame market is that no more than four hours elapse from picking to freezing. (photo by Jimmy Lin)

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TTStyle Aboriginal Cultural and Creative Hall, Taitung. (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

Moments in Time to Last an Eternity

The Taiwan Panorama Photo Collection is a visual record of this land of Taiwan and of its people, from the exalted to the ordinary. It includes a rich variety of images, covering local life and customs, holidays, folk rituals, and portraits of individuals, as well as pictures taken by our photojournalists on assignment abroad. These images tell the true story of the emotional attachment people this land and its people. In this ever-changing world, these moments, frozen in time by our cameras, will last forever.