A small resettlement village west of the mouths of the Shuangxikou (雙溪口溪) and Laojie (老街溪) rivers on the coast of Dayuan, Taoyuan. It was settled by 8 households displaced by the construction of Shimen Reservoir (石門水庫). Allocated farmland sat directly behind the houses, barely 300 meters from the sea; the sandy soil and salt-laden monsoon wind made cultivation so difficult that many gave up, selling their plots or letting them be expropriated for windbreak forest. Industrial pollution from the surrounding coastal factories and upstream watercourses later eroded what remained of village life, and most descendants have since moved away.
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- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Themes
- Shimen Reservoir Project (石門水庫建設)
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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.