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

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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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