Dulan Hsintung Sugar Factory (都蘭新東糖廠文化園區) - Spectral Codex
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都蘭新東糖廠文化園區

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Dulan sugar factory vats

Originally established in the 1930s as a privately owned sugar factory on Taiwan’s eastern coast. It shut down after the war but was refurbished in the 1960s and went on to refine sugar into the 1990s. Eventually it was converted into an art and music performance space starting in 2001.

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Heritage Status

  • Historic Building (歷史建築)

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Series: Taiwan Huandao 2013

An incomplete series of posts about my first bicycle tour around Taiwan in September and October 2013. The complete trip around the main island is known in Chinese as huándǎo (環島), literally “around the island”, and is typically conducted as a rite of passage for young people in Taiwan. It took me a full lunar month to complete, but I was not in any particular rush, and it can be done in under a week if you’re in a hurry.

Note: this series is far from complete and the quality of each entry varies as it was originally drafted in 2014. Since 2024 I have been revising each entry with and redoing all the photos.

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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.