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	Dadaocheng - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dadaocheng (大稻埕, Taiwanese: Tōa-tiū-tiâⁿ, literally "big rice drying-field") is an area in Taipei Basin and a historic section of Taipei City.
		It was an important trading port in the 19th century and is still a major historical tourist attraction and shopping area.
		In the early 20th century, Dadaocheng was one of the most populous cities in Taiwan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dadaocheng (229 words)

	National Taiwan University Hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The older wing of the National Taiwan University Hospital dates to 1912.
		National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH, 國立台灣大學醫學院附設醫院) started operations under Japanese rule in Dadaocheng on June 20, 1895, and moved to its present location in 1897.
		Work on the graceful Renaissance architecture of the current west-side building dates to 1912, and the last stone was laid in 1921.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Taiwan_University_Hospital (261 words)

	Harvard Studies on Taiwan Vol. 3: Joseph R. Allen
		The second was the commercial area of Dadaocheng, with retail establishments from 1851, but with purposeful settlement beginning in 1853.
		Because of this, the entire area was transformed, over time, into a Japanese style neighborhood, which stood in contrast to the older suburban areas of Mengjia and Dadaocheng with their older architecture of southern Chinese style and (in Dadaocheng) the old European commercial buildings.
		Another type of European-inspired architecture is found in the commercial row buildings of the time, both those in the old Chinese suburbs of Dadaocheng, and in the new commercial streets that developed in the northwest section of the intramural city.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~fairbank/tsw/allen.html (8002 words)

	台北建城ㄧ百二十週年~~TAIPEI 120th ANNIVERSARY
		Settlers from the area of Tong'an in Fujian Province lost out in the struggle, and during the Xianfeng reign (1851-1862), moved from Mengjia to the new area of Dadaocheng (now the district of West Taipei north of Civil Boulevard).
		Grandiose foreign enterprises and consulates sprang up in Dadaocheng, which might rightfully be described as the island's earliest international trading port.
		The three original towns of Mengjia, Dadaocheng and Old Taipei have stood the test of time for 120 years.
	www.taipei120.org /TTH-03.shtml (2499 words)

	Tea park opens in Taipei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Over ten types of tea trees and fragrant flowers have been planted in the park, and there are three trails that visitors can walk along that explain the types of tea processing.
		The park is expected to become a major boon for the tea merchants in the Dadaocheng area of the city.
		The rise of the tea trade helped make Dadaocheng the most prosperous area in all of Taiwan, and wealthy individuals such as Lee Chun-sheng and Lin Wei-yuan congregated in the area, making the vicinity the center of Taiwan arts and culture.
	th.gio.gov.tw /show.cfm?news_id=18052 (516 words)

	Urban Redevolopment Office Taipei City
		The scope of this urban planning project include many issues such as land use changes, land use intensity adjustment, identification,preservation and renovation of historical buildings, urban design, incentive programs and a more comprehensive system that governd the transfer of rights in acquring different building floor area ratio.
		The redevelopment of Dadaocheng area cannot be achived through the preservation of traditional Dihua Street alone,rather, the task should be initiated by linking Dadaocheng to its neighbooring area,thus able to form a viable commercial area.
		In addition to the preservation of development rights for the landowners, this project also comprised a designated boundary for mutual living in the vicinity.
	www.uro.gov.tw /EngLish/alink7-1.aspx (133 words)

	Tea park opens in Taipei
		Chaoyang Park, the first park in Taipei to focus on the theme of tea, is expected to become a major boon for the tea merchants in the Dadaocheng area of the city.
		During the Jiaqing era of the Qing dynasty, all of Taiwan's tea passed through the Dadaocheng area.
		The rise of the tea trade helped make Dadaocheng the most prosperous area in all of Taiwan.
	www.taiwan.com.au /Envtra/Taipei/Media/20030618.html (175 words)

	taipei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is a modern cosmopolitan metropolis with a lively and diversified face, filled with exuberance.
		Its buildings provide much of the diversity, and visitors who are fond of historic sites and old streets will not want to miss the work of traditional master builders evident on Dihua Street in the Dadaocheng area or the Longshan Temple in the Wanhus district, as well as other places.
		The internationally renowned National Palace Museum has an inexhaustible collection of precious historical Chinese arts and artifacts that no visitor can afford to miss; Taipei is also home to many other fine museums, including the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Museum of History, and Postal Museum.
	ya-ting.com /2004/taiwan/taipei.html (254 words)

	Premiere Magazine: New York Film Festival Update 0930
		Whether it intentionally recalls Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild is uncertain, but its similarly sumptuous long-take linearity and use of classic Western pop songs (especially "Rain and Tears") is wondrously hypnotic and just about perfect.
		The film's middle portion is a silent melodrama set in a 1911 Dadaocheng brothel—about a tea plantation owner's son and a courtesan-turned-concubine—which is predictably gorgeous, but hardly matches the director's gold standard in the all-too-alike Flowers of Shanghai.
		Disappointingly, the last leg of the triptych is also a fractured, lesser imitation of a previous work (Millennium Mambo), in which Shu Qi plays an epileptic bisexual nightclub songstress (say that five times fast) in present-day Taipei.
	www.premiere.com /article.asp?section_id=6&article_id=2336&page_number=1 (758 words)

	DAI 527 - Travel Micro-site by FanHsuan
		Since the Qing dynasty, this old narrow street has been selling goods imported from mainland China, including silk, pottery, herbal medicine and artwork.
		These goods used to arrive by ship at the main wharf of Dadaocheng.
		Local produce of Taiwan such as rice, sugar and camphor were shipped out to mainland China on the reverse route.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~fanhsuan/527exercise9.html (212 words)

	Taiwan‘s "Three Times" of slight interest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But the exposition is very modern, with the characters communicating in broken sentences, mumbles and silences.
		"A Time for Freedom" is set in Dadaocheng in 1911 and owes something to the refined aesthetic of Hou‘s 1998 "Flowers of Shanghai." Shu Qi plays a courtesan who‘s visited by an admirer (Chang).
		They communicate via the indirect social conventions of the time.
	www.heraldnewsdaily.com /stories/news-0081510.html (631 words)

	Taipei - Taiwan - China
		Image:Guo Xuehu 1930.jpgleftthumbSouth Street (around Dadaocheng, Taipei)/ Guo Xue-hu/ 1930/ 134 x 195 cm/ The Forth Exhibition of Taiwan-Government-in-General, Special Award/ Collection of the Artist Himself
		A new city was established in the Taipei basin for the new bureaucracy, located between two populous towns, WanhuaBangka (艋舺) and Dadaocheng (大稻埕).
		It included WanhuaBangka, Dadaocheng, and Chengnei among other small settlements.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Taipei (1313 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - Taipei Tips - Pictures, Tips and Reviews
		Far before the developed of Danshui and KeeLung, DaDaoCheng has become the biggest trade city in North Taiwan.
		Located at the bank of Danshui River, DaDaoCheng was the wharf where all the shipment went through, and this area has hundreds of tycoon.
		Nowadays, DaDaoCheng has turn into an old town area in Taipei....
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei_Shih/Taipei-1074413/Things_To_Do-Taipei-R-5.html (766 words)

	Taipei Travel Net-Bicycle Traces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		You can then follow the bike trail on the right bank of the Xindian River through five distinctive riverside parks.
		At Huajiang Waterfowl Nature Park you can watch migratory birds at play in the water, and then continue on to enjoy the cultural and historic sites at Dadaocheng.
		Next up is a trip to the natural scenic area of Shezi Island to watch the billowing waves at the confluence of the Keelung and Danshui rivers, and then it's time to head south to the riverside park bike trail on the left bank of the Bailing River.
	taipeitravel.net /article.asp?pcode=2&indexId=49 (207 words)

	Three Times (Zui hao de shi guang) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As he branched out in movies like Good Men, Good Women and Flowers of Shanghai both dealing with events that take place before he was even born, his films felt more aloof and his already distant style became all the more frigid.
		That bodes ill for the second segment, “A Time for Freedom,” which takes place in 1911 Dadaocheng with Taiwan still under Japanese rule.
		Like Flowers of Shanghai, the setting is a brothel, but Hou’s style is different.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies12/ThreeTimes.htm (754 words)

	village voice > film > by
		Swanson's outfits aside, this sub-DeMillean romance of adultery (not) isn't vintage '20s exotic, but set mainly in a succession of English drawing rooms and country gardens, it does end with everyone converging mid Sahara.
		Hou Hsiao-hsien presents the same romantic couple in a trio of historically charged situations—a Kaohsiung billiards parlor in 1966, a Dadaocheng brothel in 1911, and a Taipei rock club in 2005.
		Contrived but chilling, Hany Abu-Assad's second feature tells the tale of two Palestinian auto mechanics from Nablus whose suicide mission in Israel goes unexpectedly awry.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0537,nyff,67763,20.html (2284 words)

	Chinese medicine and culture
		That is, until two weeks before the Lunar New Year when local vendors spill out of their storefronts to set up shop on the walkway.
		This narrow street, located near the Danshui River in Taipei's Dadaocheng District, turns into a sea of shoppers, merchants and bins packed with an array of savory and sweet holiday snacks.
		The traditional market is a popular destination for Taipei residents to do their New Year shopping and provides a viable option for temporary employment."
	www.daan.com /2005_01_01_archive.html (1367 words)

	The Cannes Files: (some para-text to Cannes 2005): Cannes International Film Festival
		Three episodes are set in three different epochs: 1966 (A Time for Love), 1911 (A Time for Freedom), and 2005 (A Time for Youth).
		The place is of course Taiwan, in three different locations: Kaohsiung, Dadaocheng, and Taipei, respectively.
		A common thread: memory, the memory of a love story played out in all segments by the same two actors, Shu Qi and Chang Chen.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/05/36/cannes2005.html (4305 words)

	Progress on new puppet center in Taipei continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Progress on new puppet center in Taipei continues
		aipei's Dadaocheng area will soon become home to Taiwan's first puppet theater that combines a theatrical and exhibition space.
		A local arts and culture foundation that has been collecting puppets for almost two decades purchased an old house over six months ago on Xining North Road near the Xiahai Chenghuang Temple.
	www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw /20030625/20030625s5.html (393 words)

	village voice > film > by Mark Peranson
		And there's no distance to see beyond this fragmentation."
		For "A Time for Freedom," a ravishing silent melodrama set entirely in a 1911 Dadaocheng brothel, Hou and ace cinematographer Mark Li Ping-bin consciously avoided mimicking Flowers of Shanghai, using different lighting and decor.
		Cahiers cynics, be very afraid: Three Times looks to be the first installment in—yes—an ongoing project.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0521,peranson,64262,20.html (715 words)

	The View from Taiwan: Post Archive: Travel
		Lugu boasts a long tradition of tea growing
		Boats and bikes for hire from Dadaocheng Wharf
		The Museum of World Religions in Yungho (my visit here)
	michaelturton.blogspot.com /2005/06/post-archive-travel.html (580 words)

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