A Second Spring for Old Towns
2025 / October
Reading this month’s Taiwan Panorama, you will get a sense of the richness and diversity of life in Taiwan, and the gentle power that pulses through this island. This power is not ostentatious, but has a warmth that fills people’s hearts and brings them together. It is ensconced in mountain tea farms, ocean tides, historic streets, and the determined optimism in people’s eyes.
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Tea Totallers
A New Generation Goes All In in Old Pinglin
Tea culture started in Asia and later made its way to the West, not only transforming global trade but also the languages of many lands. Wherever this beverage’s pronunciation is close to “tea,” this generally means the term came from China’s Fujian Province or from Taiwan, and was influenced ......
Kil’n It!
Yingge’s 200 Years of Ceramics History
Ceramics making is an ancient set of skills that have long been the basis of an industry. In Taiwan, the most important bastion of world-class ceramics manufacture is New Taipei City’s Yingge District, known as “Taiwan’s Jingdezhen.” (Jingdezhen, China’s “porcelain capital,” has been a center ......
A Mountain Town Reborn
The Golden Romance of Jiufen
Why has Jiufen, formerly a prosperous gold-mining town that was later nearly abandoned, continued to attract so many tourists over recent decades? Is it the crowds of people brushing shoulders as they pass beneath the red lanterns that line its stepped streets? Or is it the poignant mood captu......
Historic Sites, Fishing Ports, and an Art Festival
Old Toucheng
Toucheng in Yilan County is known as the county’s oldest town, and its Old Street, only 600 meters long, has the highest concentration of cultural heritage of any place in Yilan. It is the center of the maritime culture that arose among the area’s five fishing harbors. As times have changed, ......
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