Anyone read this one ? I met the publisher once (I think)
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Are there stories about the mountains of trash on the riverbanks running from Dingpu/Tucheng to Banqiao? The open sewers you could actually drive your car into, get stuck when parking?
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In the concluding paragraph of the review
“I didn’t detect any typos”
Hardly a ringing endorsement is it?
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Hey that would make it better than today’s Taipei Times.
Guy
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I haven’t read it yet. I remember getting off a bus and stepping right into wet cement in Banqiao in about 1989. . Everyone who got off the bus stepped into it. Banqiao was one polluted dirty cess pit at the time. This was when they had not built the new train station yet. The pollution there was horrendous.
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I remember the massive potholes filled with water on Chunghwa road in Taipei c. '92. The buses used to plough through them somehow… not sure how the pedestrians didn’t get soaked.
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That’s pretty good—but I’d like to know if anyone remembers when there was no Chunghua Road in Taipei and TRA ran along that stretch at surface level?
Guy
What year? I remember trains going through ximen at surface level.
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That’s the time!
Guy
I remember planes landing at Nanjichang 
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Wait, what? Where is that?
Guy
Check out Goteamjosh blog
Or you could simply tell us where it is! 
Guy
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It’s a place name in itself. It’s in Nanjichang.
OK. 
Enjoy your Friday.
Guy
It’s the area just north of Youth Park in Wanhua. Used to be an actual airport.
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South airport.
The Nanjichang Community (南機場社區) which is slated for urban renewal or reconstruction (whichever you prefer) is one of Taipei’s first modern ’ high-rise ’ communities completed in 1964 and was built on the site of the Japanese colonial-era’s " Southern Taipei Airport " which was reclaimed between 1945-1949 after the Nationalist party took control of Taiwan.
After World War II, Nanjichang was reconstructed and divided into three sections, the Youth Park, Nanjichang Public Housing, and a veterans village.
An aerial photograph of Nanjichang in 14-23 Oct. 1945
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I’m surprised you don’t know about this place. It was turned into the killing fields during the White Terror era.
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