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Reminisce the Century-old Stores Lin-fu-zhen Store and Qian-yuan Pharmacy on Dihua Street
The first image of Dihua Street in Da-tong district, Taipei is an old street full of Chinese medicine shops, dried goods stores and fabric stores. Reminiscing the development of Dihua Street, it is located in an area called “Dadaocheng” which became a street in 19th Century. Foreign companies came to Tamsui and built their career after Tamsui Customs Wharf was established in 1860. The trading of tea activated the commercial developments in Dadaocheng area. In the end of the 19th Century, Dadaocheng became the trading hub in northern Taiwan.

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2017 Academia Sinica Open House Day had been Successfully Concluded!
2017-11-03

The annual Academia Sinica Open House Day had been successfully concluded on October 28, 2017. Institute of Taiwan History organized various activities including exhibition, stamping and coloring the postcards in the common room on 8F, North Building for Humanities and Social Science. Following our guided tour, visitors experienced an imagined journey with the writers of the diaries and left with pleasant memories.

Travel Memories--Journeys and Experiences in the Diaries

Base on the travel records of The diary of Mr. Guanyuan in 1927 and The Diary of Ye Sheng-ji in 1939, this exhibition, presenting the theme of traveling to Europe and school excursion, guided visitors to follow the travelers’ steps and retrospect the impressive scenery through viewing the archives of photographs, postcards, letters and passport issuance.


Visitors were listening to the tour with great interest. (see the figure above)
Visitors were redeeming the gift after coloring their postcard and finishing the learning sheet. (see the figure below)


Three color stamp printing

Coloring your own postcards

Visitors relieved their stress form everyday life through joining the coloring activities. They used their own color to fill up the scenery and smile, representing the travel memories in the journey of history. 


Visitors concentrated on coloring their postcard with colored pencil and wax pastel.


Colored postcards. (photographed with the creator’s consent)


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