Taipei celebrates its centennial with a series of events

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 17, 2020
By: Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
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Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je, center front, attends a news conference at the Taiwan New Cultural Movement Memorial Museum in Taipei’s Datong District yesterday to promote a series of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the city’s establishment.
Photo: CNA

The Taipei Department of Cultural Affairs yesterday started a series of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the city’s establishment.

“Taipei City One Hundred Years: Back to 1920” (臺北設市百年:回到1920), which runs until December, is to include themed exhibitions, guided tours of historic sites, crafts markets, concerts and talks, among other events, the department said.

“Taipei is a city with history,” Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said at a news conference at the Taiwan New Cultural Movement Memorial Museum in Datong District (大同).

Traces of the nation’s forebears can be found everywhere, he said.    [FULL  STORY]

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