Aboriginal New Year’s Feast in Chingchuan

Check this out – The Wild East’s Wild Feast! What can be better than being able to spend the weekend and your New Year’s outside the crush and smog of the city? ChingChuan, located in the mountains of Hsinchu, is home to a fusion of people including the indigenous Atayal

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Chiang Kai-shek's kidnapper a hero in Hsinchu village

By Barry Martinson For The Wild East Magazine A museum featuring Chang Hsueh-liang, Chiang Kai-shek’s kidnapper, has become the star attraction of Chingchuan, Hsinchu County for the past few years. Chang Hsueh-liang was brought to Chingchuan as a political prisoner when the Kuomintang army (KMT, Chinese Nationalists) fled to Taiwan

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