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A New Fusion Style: Taiwanese Chefs Create Downhome Cuisine

A New Fusion Style: Taiwanese Chefs Create Downhome Cuisine

In recent years a number of young chefs—perhaps on returning from overseas or after comprehensive training in a high-class restaurant—have independently made the same decision: to open a fusion-style restaurant. They use the cooking techniques of Western cuisine, but their flavor concept ...more
Chien Mu’s Last Class: The Cultured Elegance of Su Shu House

Chien Mu’s Last Class: The Cultured Elegance of Su Shu House

In 1990, when the author and educator ­Chien Mu moved from Su Shu House in Wai­shuangxi, where he had long lived, his friends and former students worried that such a major change would prove challenging. Yet ­Chien himself seemed unbothered. He remained cheerful, happily observing the ch ...more
Revitalizing Siraya Culture: Fearless Campaigners on the Path to Recognition

Revitalizing Siraya Culture: Fearless Campaigners on the Path to Recognition

The Green Valley Siraya Park, at Jiu­ceng­ling in the Xin­hua District of Tai­nan City, is home to ­Cheng­-hiong­ Ta­la­van, founder of the Si­raya Culture Association. It is also the main base of the movement for the Si­raya to be officially recognized as ...more
Alex Wang’s Dream: Grassroots “Flipped Education”

Alex Wang’s Dream: Grassroots “Flipped Education”

The car wends its way along a winding mountain road, flanked by verdant forests and bathed in warm sunlight. Our destination comes into view as we cross Long­cao Bridge in Zhong­liao Township, Nan­tou County. We are headed to ­Shuang Wen Junior High School, where grassroots “fl ...more
Inspired by Music, Pursuing Beauty: Paul Chiang, High Priest of Art

Inspired by Music, Pursuing Beauty: Paul Chiang, High Priest of Art

While president of the ­Landis Tai­pei Hotel, Stanley C. Yen, now chairman of the Alliance Cultural Foundation, met artist Paul ­Chiang, and described him thus: “If we take the cherry blossom as a metaphor for the potential of a life, Paul ­Chiang has accumulated a lifetime of ...more

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The Teenage Psychic Set to Dazzle International Viewers

The Teenage Psychic Set to Dazzle International Viewers

Taiwan’s Public Television Service and HBO have joined forces to create a new television series. Produced by a Taiwanese team, The Teenage Psychic will premiere in early April. The Teenage Psychic tells the story of a 17-year-old female high-school student with psychic powers. Set against a b ...more
Bringing Love Across the Seas: Foreign Missionaries in Taiwan

Bringing Love Across the Seas: Foreign Missionaries in Taiwan

During the 1950s, Taiwan was just emerging from a period of war and chaos, and faced inadequate conditions in culture, education, medical care, and public health. At this time, Catholic missionaries from Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Italy, and elsewhere arrived with much-needed don ...more
Nature's Hidden Treasures — Journeys of Flowers,Birds, and Butterflies

Nature's Hidden Treasures — Journeys of Flowers,Birds, and Butterflies

Think of the Chinese calendar’s 24 “solar terms” as a clock’s perpetually revolving hands, marking time throughout the year. Over the span of a thousand years, their regular motion has become part of Chinese culture’s genetic makeup. With this clock as a guide, we can e ...more
The Varied Splendor of Taiwan’s Rice Dishes

The Varied Splendor of Taiwan’s Rice Dishes

The Chinese have thousands of years of history with a rice-based cuisine. The wisdom of our ancestors, in accordance with the turning of the seasons and a love of the land, developed an agricultural culture of “planting in the spring, weeding in the summer, harvesting in the fall, and storing ...more
The National Museum of Taiwan Literature: A Glorious Century

The National Museum of Taiwan Literature: A Glorious Century

Alongside Tainan City’s central roundabout, from which several major roads radiate out, sits a literary landmark that preserves the architecture of Japanese-era Tainan Prefecture: the National Museum of Taiwan Literature. With its tall mansard roof and a main structure that still bears the sca ...more

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Cycling in Taiwan —Saddle Up and Make the Scene

Cycling in Taiwan —Saddle Up and Make the Scene

People have very different takes on travel: some like to squeeze in as much as possible, while others like to take it easy. But traveling by bus or train means following a route chosen by someone else. If you want to regain your autonomy as a traveler, try cycling, which lets you choose your route, ...more
Sanxia: A Century-Old City Rises Again

Sanxia: A Century-Old City Rises Again

Sanxia is located in the southwest corner of the Tai­pei Basin. Mountains rise on three sides and to the west it faces the Da­han River Valley and the coastal plains. Passing through the vicissitudes of a century, the town long ago outgrew its earlier role. Yet a deep, rich cultural heritage ...more
Louis Yen: Persevering Painter of Light

Louis Yen: Persevering Painter of Light

Louis Yen contracted polio as a young child. It caused neurological damage, severe osteoporosis and ongoing muscle atrophy. But with only a three-month course in painting taken 30-some years ago at age 19, Yen has gone on to probe the fields of light and color in great depth and to invent his own pa ...more
Penghu Rocks! Taiwan’s “Most Beautiful Bay” in the Limelight

Penghu Rocks! Taiwan’s “Most Beautiful Bay” in the Limelight

There’s a pop classic in Taiwan called “Grandma’s ­Penghu Bay.” The lyrics speak of the gentle even­ing breezes that waft over ­Penghu Bay, the white-capped breakers and sundrenched beaches, and of course the sea of blue, so blue. The ­Penghu Islands (also kno ...more
Top Taiwan Athletes Prepare for the Games

Top Taiwan Athletes Prepare for the Games

Track, basketball, diving…. These and 19 other sports will be on show over the 12 days of the 2017 Tai­pei Universiade. Athletes including weightlifters Hsu Shu-ching­, Kuo ­Hsing-chun, and Chen Shih-chieh­, as well as badminton ace Tai Tzu-ying (currently ranked first in the ...more
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The parallel bars and the balance beam are two disciplines that can best exhibit the contours of the human body. (photo by Jimmy Lin)

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The parallel bars and the balance beam are two disciplines that can best exhibit the contours of the human body. (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Hero Restaurant head chef Lin Kai-wei. (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

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Hero Restaurant head chef Lin Kai-wei. (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

Like Taiwan’s Aboriginal peoples and Taiwan’s older generations who understand herbal medicine, A.K. Prasannan, a postdoctoral researcher from Tamil Nadu, and his friends from southern India, know how to ­listen to the body and treat it with health-giving plants ­foraged in the wilds that they use in their cooking. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

Urban and Rural

Like Taiwan’s Aboriginal peoples and Taiwan’s older generations who understand herbal medicine, A.K. Prasannan, a postdoctoral researcher from Tamil Nadu, and his friends from southern India, know how to ­listen to the body and treat it with health-giving plants ­foraged in the wilds that they use in their cooking. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

Father and son Hong Jibei and Hong Liangjie of the Shu-Sheng Domaine. The elder Mr. Hong takes care of the vineyards, while his son looks after the winery. (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)

Urban and Rural

Father and son Hong Jibei and Hong Liangjie of the Shu-Sheng Domaine. The elder Mr. Hong takes care of the vineyards, while his son looks after the winery. (photo by Chuang Kung-ju)
Su Shu House (photo by Jimmy Lin)

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Su Shu House (photo by Jimmy Lin)

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.

Children at the Thai language camp experience Thai culture through games, food, and singing. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

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Children at the Thai language camp experience Thai culture through games, food, and singing. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)
Three generations of the Talavan family are working together to revitalize Si­ra­yan culture. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

Urban and Rural

Three generations of the Talavan family are working together to revitalize Si­ra­yan culture. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)
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