漁人碼頭的戰爭 - The Battle of Fisherman's Wharf

淡水公會堂 or Danshui Public Meeting Hall was somewhat of a mystery to the locals, possibly because this building was used exclusively by the eli...

點石齋畫報 (left), a news pictorial first published in Shanghai in 1884, reported the Battle of Fisherman's Wharf with a drawing detailing th...

[An 1899 map of northern Taiwan detailing all towns, big and small, located between Danshui and Keelung; click to enlarge.] The navigational...

This book, published today (Aug 26), is subtitled "1949". It actually also covers a forgotten period of 1944/5-1949 in Taiwan hist...

For those who have never been to Danshui, a virtual tour of the Presbyterian Church and the Mackay Clinic is available here: The many steps ...

These are faces from the past, collected by WA Pickering (1840-1907) in Pioneering in Formosa , Hurst & Blackett, London, 1898, a book r...

An oil painting of Danshui by 陳澄波 (1895-1947), ca 1935. The delta浮線 is clearly seen - with Guanyin Mountain in the far background. It seems ...