The "other" China boasts some great eating, history/culture (aboriginal and otherwise), and other urban allures in Taipei, along with some mighty lovely countryside.
Equal parts handsome, historic, and cutting-edge, Taiwan is terrific
GoranQ Officially the Republic of China, this island with a population of around 24 million – just a bit larger than the state of Maryland and just under half the size of Scotland – has been in the news lately both thanks to its controversial January 13 presidential elections and to its perennial potential (and especially in the context of other current crises in Ukraine and Gaza) as a world flashpoint due to mainland China´s obsession with eventually and forcibly annexing it. Taiwan is…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y1C_Problem
As the article explains, traditionally and officially, dates in Taiwan have been expressed using the "Year of the Republic." This year, for example, is the 98th year of the Republic. Until pretty recently (certainly when I was in Taiwan in the 1980s), nobody used Gregorian calendar years for anything, but that has changed quite a bit in recent years. Still, government and school systems and many business systems were designed using that dating system, and many were designed using only two digits to express the year. Oops!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWdFpJA1QDE
谢谢很多, 柯先生!
The CYC Activity Centers mentioned in the article aren't bad. I stayed in one in Taipei on two separate occasions--once in 1981 and again in 1984, upon arrival in Taiwan for my two separate stints there as a student. They are reasonably clean and comfortable, and very affordable.
The website where the article appears is the online version of a print magazine published by Taiwan's Government Information Office, the current head of which was a classmate of mine when I was in graduate school there. The site has other interesting pieces about various aspects of life in Taiwan.