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Kinmen: Now the Battle is for Tourism, part 2/4

Beautiful Island History Strait-Talk 
April 30, 2012January 11, 2015 Trista di Genova 0 Comment 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, Chinese Civil War, demining Kinmen, Deyue Tower, Dutch in Taiwan, Fukien, geomancy feng shui, history of kinmen quemoy, kaoliang, Kinmen Institute of Technology’s Department of Architecture and World Preservation, Koxinga 國姓爺; pinyin: Guóxìngyé;, Liaoluo Bay, mao communist cafe, Marquis of Jiang-Sia Zhou De, Ming dynasty Emperor Chu Yuan-Zhang, Minnan architecture, minnan culture Fujian, Mount Fenglian, paragon model street, Taiwan’s Council for Cultural Affairs, Tan Dun

By Trista di Genova / published 2005 in Travel & Culture magazine in its abridged form Even though they it is not a UN member, Taiwan has made significant efforts to demine Kinmen island (金門). About 75,000 landmines still remain, and the process is ongoing. President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said

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