篇名 | Living Repository of Old-Time Flavors|The Culture of the Old City – Bangka |
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卷期 | 6 |
作者 | Xu Ciqian |
頁次 | 015-019 |
出刊日期 | 201612 |
The old name for the district of Wanhua, still used by many locals, is Bangka (艋舺). In an earlier time, it was one of Taiwan’s three major urban centers. In turn, its prosperity drove the development of the transportation infrastructure. Recalling the days of his youth living on Guangzhou Street, author Akira Higashiyama remembers the north-south railway running parallel to Zhonghua Road (中華路), and how it divided Guangzhou Street, one side home to many new immigrants who had followed the Nationalist government from mainland China to Taiwan, the other home to those whose ancestors had come from China in imperial times. The railway partitioned what were, in effect, two different peoples, creating two enclaves busy with distinct languages and living customs of different ethnic groups.