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iVegan is Taiwan’s first all vegan supermarket. Photo: Vegan Taiwan
iVegan, Taiwan’s first all vegan supermarket! iVegan opened in Taipei this August. According to Vegan Taiwan, the supermarket is complete with “fresh fruit and veggies, packaged goods, frozen foods, fresh baking, cleaning and body care products* and even housewares.” iVegan comes complete with an organicsection and a small…
Have you ever been surfing a Taiwanese website and noticed that years are labeled completely differently? I was on some webpage last year and got so confused as to why I was seeing numbers like 75 and 100 for the year. What??
I somehow found my way to this Wikipedia article calledRepublic of China calendar or 民国纪年 in Chinese. Apparently this calendar is also referred to under other (similar) names such as 中华民国纪年 and 中华民国历.
The year 1 in the ROC calendar is 1912, the year the ROC was founded. So 2022 is the 111th year! Just add or subtract 1911 to convert between the Gregorian calendar and 民国纪年.
Since learning about this calendar, I’ve seen it pop up here and there on academic websites to mark the years people graduated or took a college entrance exam. You may very well never encounter this system in the wild, but if you do, now you’ll be prepared!
I wanted to find a real life example to display, so I went digging. I found the 民国纪年 on the website for 国立台湾大学哲学系 (NTU Philosophy Department).
See! For the year of these doctoral theses (博士论文), the table has 108, aka 2019.
Just goes to show that you really have to learn some stuff about culture and history when learning a language.
waiting for a more exciting year to come #catart #catpainting #catdrawing #jingfenhwu #2020 #2019 #cat #tabbycat #greytabby #tabby #etsy #taiwan #taipei
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Thank you, Japan!
This is a tribute artwork to Japan for providing AZ vaccine to Taiwan recently. Hope we could get through this darkest hour together!
Stay safe, Stay strong!
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train memes are my shit
Guess which nation does most of its travel and transport by highway and air, leaving no economic incentive for the massive infrastructure investment in new track lines that would be required for high-speed rail. Guess which nation doesn’t have enough money to maintain the existing infrastructure let alone build a completely new one based on some “Field of Dreams” hope that if you build it they will come?
“Why don’t we have X like Europe and Asia?” Because America is not like Europe or Asia in how we live or WHERE we live.
I just wanted to add Taiwan:
The train bento boxes are the best. (It’s too bad these Jake trains are no longer in operation!)
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