Taiwan, Hsinchu Military Dependents Villages Museum
Hsinchu Museum of Military Dependents Village
The Hsinchu Museum of Military Dependents Village (Chinese: 新竹市眷村博物館; pinyin: Xīnzhúshì Juàncūn Bówùguǎn) is a museum about the Military dependents' village in North District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan.
Hsinchu Glass museum, 新竹玻璃博物館
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Located in the Northwest direction of Hsinchu Park, was officially opened on December 18, 1999 and it is the first museum in Taiwan to center around the theme of glass. The museum building was first reconstructed in 1936 from a Japanese royalty residence and a banquet hall. After Taiwan’s restoration, in different periods this building had served for different groups such as the Government Take Over Committee, Military Assistance Advisory Group and Hsinchu military police station.
A home recreational atmosphere pervades both the garden outside and the space and setting inside, much suited to the exquisite and delicate features of glass craft. The Museum has retained the European style of oriental modern architecture through the standing bricks on the southeast corner of the building and the classical image of the foyer. After combining diversified requirements of different users toward the museum as the longitude and analyzing the five service functions of the museum such as administration, exhibition, collection, educational learning and public services.
The establishment of Glass Museum is aimed at combining cultural and sightseeing resources to help promoting the glass industry in Hsinchu and also providing workshop learning actively. Not only its exclusive display of exquisite glass art pieces draw numerous visitors, it also allows the public to go further by touching and creating their own work besides the visual appreciation to get another kind of amazement brought by glass creations. Make sure you don’t miss out on this entertaining and enjoyable spot in your Hsinchu travel!
Address：
No.2, Sec. 1, Dongda Rd, North District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Sunday 09:00-17:00
(Closed on Monday & Tuesday)
Ticket Price:
NT$50 per person
NT$20 with Student ID
Free for Children aged under 6 or eldely aged over 65
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THERE WAS A CAMPING THERE! - TAIWAN ON FOOT #7
I'm Steve, I'm travelling in Taiwan on foot.
I left Sanyi after visiting the Sanyi Wood Sculpture Museum.
I left at around 2pm and stopped at the Shengxing Station, not in use anymore since 1998.
I was walking to Taichung, my original destination but it was still far and obviously I didn't have enough time that day.
The Longteng broke bridge is another tourist attraction along the way. Once there I saw few nice spots where place my tent for the night. So I waited until the last tourist left the site and just before the dark I built my tent right behind the bridge. Once done with that I wrote a post on my Facebook page. I was a bit scared honestly. My tent was just next to the wood and I was worry about wild animals. After a while a old friend of mine, a Taiwanese girl met in Italy nine years before, saw the post and contacted me. Funny thing is that her family has a restaurant and camping 300 meters from where I was! She came out shouting my name. That was a big surprise. Was too late to move my tent in her camping but in the day after I did it.
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彩虹眷村, 台中, 台湾 | Rainbow Village, Taichung, Taiwan ????????
Chiang Kai Shek’s Chinese Nationalist Party retreat to Taiwan in the late 1940s brought along with them over two million people including soldiers and their families. To house this huge population of soldiers and their families, Military Dependents’ villages were quickly set up around Taiwan. Most of such villages were very poorly constructed and extremely small. Residents were unable to hold ownership rights over their homes as they were the property of the state. As a result, many of these villages become abandoned or deteriorated into slums for the ageing population over the years. We can still see some of the old postboxes used by these families in the village.
To free up the often prime real-estate space occupied by these villages, the government started an aggressive program of demolishing the villages in the early 1990s. To fight for the preservation of his village, Mr Huang Yong-Fu came up with a unique way to say no to the demolitions. A military veteran who was born in Hong Kong and fought against the communists, he who people now refer to as the Rainbow Grandfather started to paint colourful murals all over his home, as well as the gates around it and the walkways. He used very bright colours and painted very random and imaginative figures including plants, animals, monsters, celebrities and traditional cultural heroes.
Students from Ling-Tung University which was located just next to his village saw what he was doing and took pictures and shared them online. These photos went viral and Rainbow Village soon became a tourist destination and people from all over started to visit while he was still busy painting. Tourists offered donations and supported the by-then almost 90-year-old artist. His peaceful protest, fortunately, gained sufficient sympathy from around the country to halt Taichung mayor’s plans for demolition and hence saved the village. Today, residents still stay in the village!
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Golden Buddha statue inside the Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
Statue of Buddha inside the Tibetan Buddhist Monastery at Majnu Ka Tila, Delhi.
Majnu-ka-tilla , is a Tibetan colony in Delhi, India that was established around 1960. Majnu-ka-tilla is official called New Aruna Nagar Colony, Chungtown, and Samyeling. It is part of North Delhi district and is located between the Yamuna River and Delhi's Outer Ring Road (NH-1) near ISBT Kashmiri Gate.
The historic name of area, literally means the hillock of Majnu, after the tilla or mound where during the reign of Sikandar Lodhi (r. 1489--1517) on Delhi Sultanate, a local Iranian Sufi mystic, Abdulla nicknamed Majnu (crazy), met Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak on July 20, 1505. Majnu ferried people across the Yamuna river for free as a service to God, his devotion resulted in the Nanak staying here till end July. In later history Sikh military leader Baghel Singh built the Majnu ka Tila Gurudwara to commemorate the stay in 1783, and the sixth Sikh guru, Guru Har Gobind also stayed here. Today it is one of oldest extant Sikh shrines in Delhi and the surrounding estate of donated by early 19th-century Sikh emperor, Ranjit Singh.
Majnu Ka Tilla area has three main residential settlements with total 3000-3500 homes, Aruna Nagar, New Aruna Nagar and Old Chandrawal village, which was came up in early 1900s, when British government settled labourers involved in the construction of the Central Secretariat buildings, during the construction of the New Delhi. The next round of settlement came post-independence in 1958-59, when Aruna Nagar was developed by the Land and Development wing of the Urban Development ministry as it disburses 925 plots of 40 sq. yard each, to people resettled here from various part of North Delhi. The Tibetan refugee camp later named New Aruna Nagar developed after 1960, and more recently two large jhuggi jhopari (hutment) clusters have developed on the peripher.
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The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (Chinese: 六四事件, liùsì shìjiàn), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing (the capital of the People's Republic of China) in 1989. More broadly, it refers to the popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests during that period, sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement (Chinese: 八九民运, bājiǔ mínyùn). The protests were forcibly suppressed after Chinese Premier Li Peng declared martial law. In what became known in the West as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, troops with automatic rifles and tanks fired at the demonstrators trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square. The number of civilian deaths has been estimated variously from 180 to 10,454.Set against a backdrop of rapid economic development and social changes in post-Mao Zedong China, the protests reflected anxieties about the country's future in the popular consciousness and among the political elite. The reforms of the 1980s had led to a nascent market economy which benefitted some people, but seriously disaffected others and the one-party political system also faced a challenge of legitimacy. Common grievances at the time included inflation, limited preparedness of graduates for the new economy and restrictions on political participation. The students called for democracy, greater accountability, freedom of the press and freedom of speech, though they were loosely organized and their goals varied. At the height of the protests, about 1 million people assembled in the Square.As the protests developed, the authorities veered back and forth between conciliatory and hardline tactics, exposing deep divisions within the party leadership. By May, a student-led hunger strike galvanized support for the demonstrators around the country and the protests spread to some 400 cities. Ultimately, China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and other Communist Party elders believed the protests to be a political threat and resolved to use force. The State Council declared martial law on May 20 and mobilized as many as 300,000 troops to Beijing. The troops suppressed the protests by firing at demonstrators with automatic weapons, killing multiple protesters and leading to mass civil unrest in the days following.
The international community, human rights organizations and political analysts condemned the Chinese government for the violent response to the protests. Western countries imposed severe economic sanctions and arms embargoes on Chinese entities and officials. In response, the Chinese government verbally attacked the protestors and denounced Western nations who had imposed sanctions on China by accusing them of interference in China's internal affairs, which elicited heavier condemnation by the West. It made widespread arrests of protesters and their supporters, suppressed other protests around China, expelled foreign journalists, strictly controlled coverage of the events in the domestic press, strengthened the police and internal security forces and demoted or purged officials it deemed sympathetic to the protests. More broadly, the suppression temporarily halted the policies of liberalization in the 1980s. Considered a watershed event, the protests also set the limits on political expression in China well into the 21st century. Its memory is widely associated with questioning the legitimacy of Communist Party rule and remains one of the most sensitive and most widely censored political topics in mainland China.