Friday, July 31, 2026

Four new books in the former native speaker's library

I got a collection of four small illustrated books about old Taichung, 《臺中舊城》, which includes 

  • 「宮原武熊的一天」(about Miyahara Takekuma, a Japanese ophthalmologist who ran an eye clinic in Taichung),  
  • 「和平日報:二七部隊」(about the Taichung-based newspaper I've been combing through for my research on 蔡鐵城),
  • 「臺中公園-前世今生」(about Taichung Park), and 
  • 「1960's 綠川點點滴滴的日子」(about the cleaning up of the Lü Chuan [Green River] in downtown Taichung).
These books also have maps of old Taichung that I guess you can use to find the places discussed. Wish I had time this trip to visit Taichung and take a look at those historical sites.
 
From their website, 臺中舊城生活博物館, it appears that they've published other books about Taichung, too. 

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