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Taipei


6th - 7th May 2005
A famous piece of pork - carved from jade - from the Emperor's very own collection, now housed in the Palace Museum in Taipei.
A miniature Chinese cabbage not unrelated to the above.
The Taiwanese, while possessing all the artefacts from the Forbidden City in Beijing, are missing the actual buildings, and have thus had to build a new museum to house everything.
Chiang Kai Shek.
The San Yat Sen memorial hall. Sun Yat Sen was the father of the original Chinese Republic, and so in a way the father of both modern Chinas; this makes him about the only politician in modern Chinese history respected by both Taiwanese and mainland Chinese.
Taipei 101 - the world's tallest building.

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