After a couple of days in Beijing, I finally arrived in Taipei! Yeah :)
The first thought that crossed my mind arriving in the city center "This looks and feels a whole lot like Japan".
After the millions and billions of people in Beijing, I felt quite relieved to be in Taipei.. still it is crowded, but not too bad. The people a v e r y nice here and it is a lot less loud then in China. The people in Beijing tend to speak very loud (someone might call it screaming).
My couchsurfing host put it in following words, if you walk on a narrow street and a person wants to pass by you, in China the person will push you out of the way, in Japan the person will keep standing behind you, look on the floor and wait until you realize that the person wants to pass, and in Taiwan the person will kindly ask you if it would possible to pleases step aside, so he/she can pass.
Yesterday, I visited the old tobacco factory in Taipei, which is now on of the creative centers of the city. It's a great place, it's stuffed with galleries, museums and exhibitions. Fantastic! Hopefully something similar will happen to the tobacco factory in Linz.
Oh, and I've been to the Art Disctrict in Beijing (also an used-to-be industry complex) it's even bigger than in Taipei, it's full of galleries, street art, sculptures.. mostly contemporary art. If you ever go to Beijing, you HAVE TO visit it! Do it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/798_Art_Zone
Generally I have to mention, that a lot more people visit contemporary art museums here, than in Austria. It seems to be more natural to go to exhibitions, people from every age visit (families with kids, teenagers, adults, old folks) It's more like a visit to the cinema... entertainment.
Well, I'm off to 101 now ;)
Xie xie, D.
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