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What Happened in 1624?

—The Legacy of Dutch Rule in Taiwan

In 1624 the Dutch established a trading post in the New World, in what is now New York. In the same year, the Dutch East India Company came ashore in Taiwan in a place then called Dayuan (today part of the Anping District of Tainan City). Their 38-year rule changed the course of Taiwan’s history.......

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A Tale of Two Citadels in Dutch Tainan:

Fort Zeelandia and Fort Provintia

Taiwan has streets in many cities named “Chenggong,” as well as schools at all levels with Chenggong in their names. Tainan, in particular, has multiple elementary schools, a middle school, and even a university (spelled Cheng Kung) with this word in their monikers.In modern Chinese, chenggong......

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400 Years of Building History—

A Tour of Tainan Architecture

For this report, we spent two days visiting the architecture featured as part of the “Tainan 400” celebrations, marking 400 years since the city's founding. On the first day we viewed buildings from the period of the Kingdom of Tungning (1661–1683), which ruled part of Taiwan in the name of th......

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The Enchanting Old Capital:

Historic Tainan Beckons

Those who have visited Tainan may remember losing their bearings in its winding back streets, which promise pleasant surprises at every turn. Why are there so many little streets and alleys in this historic town in Southern Taiwan? Su Feng-nan, an author who has explored the historical nuances......