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A reinforced concrete fish auction hall completed in 1936 on the south side of the Anping Canal boat basin, replacing an earlier market inside West Market (西市場). The market closed in 1981 after the canal basin was filled in to build the Chinatown (中國城) shopping complex. In 2016, the building was threatened with demolition as part of a redevelopment scheme, prompting a preservation campaign that ultimately succeeded, but the shell of the building remains idle as of the mid-2020s.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- PeoPo (公民新聞)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Maritime Industry in Taiwan (台灣海洋產業)
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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.