tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post5761462347491959050..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Big loans for "tourism": Tour groups "working as intended"Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-33163129193652987442016-09-11T12:41:13.160+08:002016-09-11T12:41:13.160+08:00Michael,
Aside from the oddity of this tourism in...Michael,<br /><br />Aside from the oddity of this tourism industry loan, thanks for your link to the Edward House 1875 account of The Japanese Expedition to Formosa. It is indeed "way cool".<br /><br />The first-person accounts of the expedition, its preparations, the contemporary diplomatic and strategic context, positioning of the US and Japan vis a vis interventions by the British with an apparently uninterested China. All informative.<br /><br />I actually visited Mudan a few months ago as a side trip from Hengchun / Kenting. The location of the Japanese landing and the approaches to the "Stone Gate" are as striking and foreboding today as they must have been then. Steep, narrow, formidable places ... <br /><br />Remarkable for the aboriginal tribes to subsist in general in those treacherous mountain valleys. They must have been extremely tough folks. Armed, tough, on high ground, friendly in peace (though sensitive to any perceived insults!) and with a fierce sense of honor. Not be trifled with! <br /><br />Likewise the Japanese involved must have been tough enough to do a serious gut check when looking up at the Stone Gate from the safety of the river plain below. Yowza. I assume sure there must have been some sense of relief to achieve a nominal truce and treaty and then high-tail it out of hostile - and malaria heavy - territory. Meanwhile the larger objective of consolidation of Okinawa was secured.<br /><br />Today at the top of Stone Gate there is a nice - but little-visited - park with monuments to the battle as well as to the subsequent parties and joint-drinking to celebrate the end of hostilities. The monument to the original Okinawan sailors, and I think their tomb as well, is lower down the river valley along the road from the onsen resort of Sichongxi to Checheng, I think.<br /><br />All around interesting stuff. Thanks.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-63553901456000362632016-09-11T06:56:12.452+08:002016-09-11T06:56:12.452+08:00other formats of
The Japanese expedition to Formo...other formats of<br /><br />The Japanese expedition to Formosa<br /><br />are at <br /><br />https://archive.org/details/japaneseexpedit03housgoogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-76141811841135411052016-09-10T22:59:33.994+08:002016-09-10T22:59:33.994+08:00Thanks angry! I will look into it
My understandin...Thanks angry! I will look into it<br /><br /><b>My understanding of the tour companies is that they were owned and operated by the Chinese and that the Sunflowers never stopped that from happening because it had already happened. Also, Taiwanese tour guides, bus drivers, and other such workers were getting stiffed, or paid late and little for their efforts since the money literally trickled down from across the strait.</b><br /><br />Yeah, lots of hotels and tour companies are owned by Chinese through Taiwanese fronts. I tossed that out there because I wanted to raise the issue of other motives for tourism reductions.<br /><br />And yes, that's how China operates. stiffs you...Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-15157167156424845582016-09-10T22:32:56.307+08:002016-09-10T22:32:56.307+08:00Michael,
NCC is trying to kill the pro-independenc...Michael,<br />NCC is trying to kill the pro-independence talk show 政經看民視.<br />You need to know this.<br />Host 彭文政 facebook:<br />https://www.facebook.com/pengwengjengdennis/posts/1751446741771571an angry taiwanesenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-59613397204395491982016-09-10T22:28:52.839+08:002016-09-10T22:28:52.839+08:00Mega Loan to a few China-bred tourist companies?
T... Mega Loan to a few China-bred tourist companies?<br />Tsai-Lin administration put up another 'Hate Me!' T-Bar, poking at Deep Greeners' apple of the eye.<br />an angry taiwanesenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-34113186040836681752016-09-10T22:25:35.522+08:002016-09-10T22:25:35.522+08:00My understanding of the tour companies is that the...My understanding of the tour companies is that they were owned and operated by the Chinese and that the Sunflowers never stopped that from happening because it had already happened. Also, Taiwanese tour guides, bus drivers, and other such workers were getting stiffed, or paid late and little for their efforts since the money literally trickled down from across the strait.<br /><br />Also, I've been to the "ROC" tourism office and met the director and staff. These are all KMT-hired bureaucrats, and when I talked with them about tours to non-Chinese, the reply was that it was all and only about bringing in the Chinese tourists. There were no other tourists to speak of or worth their attention. I wondered if their jobs or, more likely, bigger bonuses were tied into how many of those droves of vandals they could bring over.<br /><br />I'd really be interested in knowing how/when the Tsai administration is replacing these KMT cadres from these troublemaking positions. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com