Designed by architect Huang Baoyu (黃寶瑜) and completed in 1970, this was the largest and last of Chiang Kai-shek’s many villas in Taiwan. Construction began in 1969, the same year CKS was involved in a car accident, fueling a persistent superstition about the site’s fengshui. In 1972 he collapsed into a coma here and was carried out to Veterans General Hospital, never returning. After his death in 1975 the KMT transformed the building into Yangming Library (陽明書屋), archives for party history. It was opened to the public in 1998. Visitors must take a Mandarin-only guided tour departing at specific times and taking approximately one hour.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
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- KMT Authoritarian Era Taiwan (國民政府時期)
- Chiang Kai-shek Guesthouses (蔣公行館)
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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.