Touring Taiwan’s outlying islands

Beautiful Island

May 25, 2012January 11, 2015 Trista di Genova 0 Comment Battle of Guningtou, cheap travel tour package deals, Chinese Civil War, Flying Fish Festival Taitung County, green island, Guningtou War Museum, homestay information and reservations, Kinmen Quemoy 金門縣, Koxinga 國姓爺; pinyin: Guóxìngyé;, Kuomintang, mao communist cafe, Mao Tse Tung, Orchid Island, Orchid Island Lanyu 蘭嶼, Taiwan travel, travel stories about Taiwan, Trista di Genova travel writing, what to see in Taiwan

An excerpt of the Lin Yang (of the DPA, Deutsche Presse-Agentur) interview with Trista di Genova, who has traveled to and written about her fascination with history and culture on Taiwan’s outlying islands, so far Orchid Island, Green Island and Kinmen. Lin Yang’s travel story will be published in the

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Kinmen: Now the Battle is for Tourism, part 4/4

Beautiful Island History Strait-Talk

May 4, 2012January 11, 2015 Trista di Genova 0 Comment Battle of Guningtou, Bunker International Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), Dadeng Military Base, 蔣中正 / 蔣介石 Chiang Kai-shek General Chiang Kai-shek, Kinmen Quemoy Jinmen, Kuomintang, Quemoy crisis, Shen Yuan’s Speaker Tea, Sun Yat-sen 孫德明孫文, take back China, Wu Chao-hsi, Yin Ling’s “Lovemaking for world peace

By Trista di Genova / published 2005 in Travel & Culture magazine in its abridged form “EVERYWHERE IS A MUSEUM” This year, Kinmen made international headlines when Kinmen was transformed from a former battlefield into an international art exhibition. A hundred thousand visitors came to Kinmen to see some of

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Kinmen: Now the Battle is for Tourism, part 3/4

Beautiful Island History Strait-Talk

May 2, 2012January 11, 2015 Trista di Genova 0 Comment 823 War Museum, ”, Anti-Secession Law, Battle of Guningtou, Bunker International Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), Dishan Zhaishan tunnel, 蔣中正 / 蔣介石 Chiang Kai-shek, General Chiang Kai-shek, Houchiang Bay, Kinmen Quemoy Jinmen, Kuomintang, Quemoy crisis, Shen Yuan’s Speaker Tea, take back China, Wu Chao-hsi, Wu Chao-hsi Blacksmith Wu, Yin Ling’s “Lovemaking for world peace

By Trista di Genova / published 2005 in Travel & Culture magazine in its abridged form THE BATTLE OF GUNINGTOU The Chinese Nationalist army (KMT), led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣中正), defeated the Japanese in Nanking, but lost the Chinese Civil War to Mao Zedong’s Communists. The KMT then “took

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