One of around 35 villages constructed specifically for refugees from the Dachen Islands in 1955. Initially it was home to 107 households and 426 residents. Recently it has stimulated interest in the media after an abandoned house was found to have a coffin hanging inside, but it isn’t clear whether this is a folk custom (空棺文化) or merely an individual quirk of a villager.
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Links
- Liberty Times (自由時報)
- Digital Taiwan (典藏台灣)
Sources
- Dachen New Village Demographics 《大陳新村各地區人口分佈及職業概況》
Themes
- Dachen New Villages (台灣大陳村)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.