2008年4月8日 星期二
NYT in Taipei
I'm both heartened and ashamed to say that Douglas McGray's New York Times travel article on Taipei is more beautiful, accurate, expansive and observant about the city than anything I've written for my summer magazine. Though he tends to drum up the doom-and-gloom of Chinese competition a bit too much.
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hey dude, i guess you are from taipei and also go to college in america! i have been studying chinese for the past few years, and have been thinking about going to china to teach english after graduation. but, recently i've been thinking about how shitty of a country it is right now, and perhaps i would be happier in taipei. do you have any advice for white people thinking about spending some time in taipei? thanks!
Hey Tim,
Having spent most of my life in Taipei, I find it a little hard to put myself in a new immigrant's shoes. You might find some of the best advice at Forumosa, a forum for English-speaking foreigners living in Taiwan. You might also ask recently-graduated Americans currently teaching in Taipei (I don't know her personally, but the links section on her page directs you to a lot of good foreigner-in-Taiwan blogs).
I'm inclined to say screw China and come to Taipei instead, but I might not be the most objective source on this. Off the top of the head, I can say that the streets will be a shitload safer and the people are probably much friendlier. Taipei's a big city with a small-town feel -- lots of trees, cafes, restaurants, bookstores, intimate nightclubs and awesome indie bands, though you'll need to do some off-the-beaten-path search for the hip places. It misses out on some of the historical tourist attractions and cultural exoticism that Beijing offers, and in terms of sheer scale and frantic development, it might not be as crazy as Shanghai.
Hope this help, and good luck on the search!
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