Department of Cultural Affairs, Taoyuan

"Taoyuan City Story House Cluster" is a guide-style text introducing various local cultural halls and story sites in Taoyuan. Using addresses, historical backgrounds, spatial features, and management directions of each venue as clues, the book presents how Taoyuan connects a city culture network through the restoration of old houses, reuse of historical buildings, preservation of folk beliefs, parent-child art, and local performances.

The text introduces venues such as the Zhongping Road Story House, Nankan Children's Art Village, Taoyuan 77 Art Zone, and Taoyuan Tudigong Cultural Museum, allowing readers to quickly understand the past, present, and visiting highlights of each site. It is suitable as an introductory guide to Taoyuan's local cultural halls and can serve as material for planning cultural walks, local education, and city story routes.

Key Highlights

• Introduces multiple city story houses and local cultural sites in Taoyuan. • Presents revitalization cases of old houses, historical buildings, religious culture, and art education. • Explains the positioning, spatial characteristics, and visiting highlights of each venue in concise language. • Serves as a reference for planning cultural walks and local education routes.

Target Audience

Visitors to Taoyuan's local cultural halls, cultural tourism planners, teachers, tour guides, local cultural administrators, and anyone interested in learning about the stories of Taoyuan City.

Xianguang 2nd Village: Envisioning the Migration Museum takes Taoyuan's Xianguang 2nd Village as a starting point, linking military dependents' village preservation, migrant memories, and museum visions. Starting from Taoyuan as a microcosm of a migrant society, the book introduces village culture, historical architecture, villagers' lives, botanical memories, artistic actions, and community participation, gradually outlining how a migration museum grows from a local site.

This book combines the characteristics of a local gazetteer, a record of cultural heritage, and a museum planning text. It not only reviews the village history and architectural vocabulary of Xianguang 2nd Village but also looks at international cases of migration museums, proposing an ecomuseum strategy where "the entirety of Taoyuan is a migration museum." Readers can understand how the preservation of military dependents' villages transcends nostalgia to become a public cultural project facing diverse ethnic groups and the next generation.

Key Content

• Documents the history, architecture, villager stories, and cultural heritage value of Xianguang 2nd Village. • Connects Taoyuan's diverse migrant society with the vision of a migration museum. • Includes community mobilization, artist residencies, and local participation actions. • References international migration museum cases to propose ecomuseum strategies.

Target Audience

Cultural heritage practitioners, military dependents' village preservation teams, museum planners, local government cultural administration personnel, migration researchers, and urban culture researchers.

The children's English edition of Tithohng: A Taste of Taoyuan uses a friendly picture-book format to introduce young readers to Taoyuan's foods and cultural diversity. Through family travel, dialogue and illustrations, children encounter local dishes, language learning and the everyday stories of different communities, supporting cross-cultural reading and place-based education.

The adult English edition of Tithohng: A Taste of Taoyuan presents Taoyuan through food, language and community memory. Built from a Taiwanese-language picture-book project, it introduces signature dishes and the stories behind Minnan, Hakka, Indigenous, Matsu, military-village and immigrant communities, making the book useful for international readers, cultural education and local heritage promotion.

"Eating the World in Taoyuan: Children's Edition" uses lively illustrations and Taiwanese Hokkien stories to introduce children to the diverse culinary landscape of Taoyuan. Starting from the everyday dining table, the book introduces items such as steamed sponge cake, triangular glutinous rice balls, popiah, Daxi black dried tofu, banana rice, Shimen live fish, the "Three Treasures of Zhongli," Yunnan rice noodles, and Southeast Asian cuisine. Accompanied by games and Mandarin Chinese text, it allows children to learn Taiwanese Hokkien and understand ethnic exchange and local culture through reading and interaction.

"Eating Around the World in Taoyuan: Adult Edition" is a Taiwanese Hokkien picture book that integrates Taoyuan's local culinary culture. Through the travel stories of A-Bao, A-Bei, and their family, it introduces specialty dishes such as steamed sponge cake, popiah, triangular glutinous rice balls, aged wine misua, Daxi black dried tofu, Shimen live fish, "niu-un-shui" (mochi in ginger syrup), and Southeast Asian cuisine. The work connects the life memories of Hoklo, Hakka, Indigenous, Matsu (Eastern Min), military housing community residents, and new immigrants through Taiwanese Hokkien, Mandarin, and illustrations. It is suitable for parent-child reading, mother-tongue education, and local cultural promotion.

This book uses the format of a richly illustrated picture book to integrate the diverse cuisine and Hokkien culture of the Taoyuan area. Through the combination of text, imagery, art, and gastronomy, it conveys and promotes the charm of local multiculturalism. This series not only introduces Taoyuan's specialty dishes in an easy-to-understand way but also connects the life memories and cultural heritage of various ethnic groups through food. Through the engaging nature of a picture book, readers can naturally learn about local culture while reading, stimulating a sense of identity and curiosity toward local traditions, thereby achieving the goal of cultural inheritance.

The Golden Triangle, located at the borders of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, was originally named for its rich resources but later became a notorious hub for drug trafficking. In 1949, a segment of the Nationalist Army retreated into the region, forming the Yunnan Anti-Communist National Salvation Army under the leadership of General Li Mi, holding their ground in a foreign land for nearly 30 years. The Bloody History of the Golden Triangle National Army and Juancun Magazine document this little-known history. Although several groups of spirits have been returned to Taiwan for enshrinement in recent years, many nameless heroic souls and their descendants remain scattered in the region, facing a situation that warrants serious concern.

Author Chiang Chu-shan has compiled this book by gathering newspapers, magazines, and literature related to military dependents' villages, and interviewing former residents and related individuals. The book is structured around six major dimensions: "Historical Background," "Daily Life," "Representing the Villages," "Oral Interviews," "Advanced Research," and "Related Resources." Through this work, the author hopes to allow readers to experience the elements and historical traces of military dependents' villages in daily life, providing a deep understanding of these sites that carry Taiwan's unique historical memory and cultural significance.

《City of Captured Light: Taoyuan Travel and Cultural Exploration》

6 Themed Routes × 12 Local Perspectives × Exploration of Over 40 Cultural Venues

Beyond travel, explore Taoyuan's cultural DNA.

How did Military Dependents' Village culture shape the appearance of modern Taoyuan? Why does Taoyuan have rich Hakka settlements despite being by the sea? How do modern art, literature, and performance intertwine to create a unique cultural atmosphere in Taoyuan? This is more than just a travel book; it is a journey of cultural discovery. From Hakka settlements to Indigenous culture, from religious beliefs to contemporary art, where exactly do Taoyuan's cultural genes come from? We decrypt it for you!

"Settling in Bade" is a Matsu Eastern Min picture book centered on the story of a Matsu family relocating to Bade, Taoyuan. It depicts the journey of leaving one's hometown, taking root, and pursuing a new life. Through the family's struggles in a foreign land and their adaptation to language and cultural differences, the book showcases the power of perseverance, tolerance, and familial bonds. It also presents the collective memory of Matsu people migrating to Taiwan, leading readers to understand the true meaning of "home" and the touching realization that a foreign land can become a hometown over time.

"Crossing to Taiwan" is a Matsu Mindong language picture book centered on the historical background of Matsu families migrating to Bade, Taoyuan. Through the eyes of a young girl named Yi-mei, it depicts the journey of crossing the sea to Taiwan on a supply ship and the process of adapting to a new environment. The story presents the collective memory of the Matsu people's struggle after migrating to Taiwan, showcasing the spirit of family mutual support, courage in the face of challenges, and the hope and expectation for a better future.

"I Live in the 'Artillery Shell Village'" is the 11th volume of the "Taiwan Military Dependents' Village Series Picture Books" published by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taoyuan City Government. Set against the historical backdrop of Taiwu New Village and the August 23 Artillery Battle, the book translates military village culture and battlefield memories into an easy-to-understand story through the medium of a picture book, making it suitable for parent-child reading and school teaching. Taoyuan City has long been committed to the research and preservation of military village culture. Through the publication of picture books, it aims to plant seeds for the future, promoting cultural education, reading, and cultural translation, allowing the next generation to learn about military village history, human stories, and the value of peace through reading, thereby continuing local cultural memories.

Every Qingming and Chongyang Festival, clan members from all over return to their ancestral homes, busily preparing for the spring and autumn ancestral worship activities. The greetings exchanged between relatives of different generations, the sincere dialogues with ancestors, and the dazzling array of offerings work together to maintain the long-term memories of the clan's development. Follow this issue of "Daxi Monograph" into the ancestral halls and homes of Daxi clans to understand the significance of clans and ancestral worship.