Taipei East Gate

One of the five gates of the original Qing dynasty era Taipei walled city, officially known as Jingfu Gate (景福門), was completed in the late 1880s. The Japanese demolished the surrounding city walls in 1901 to open a road northward to the Taiwan Shrine, leaving the gate intact at what is now the junction in front of the Taiwan Presidential Office Building in Zhongzheng. The KMT government redesigned it in 1966 in a northern Chinese palatial style with a reinforced-concrete second storey and a KMT party emblem on the gable. The emblem has been periodically defaced by opposition demonstrators following democratization, earning the structure the nickname “Door of Protest” (抗議之門). It was designated a national monument in 1998.