Culture & History Kaohsiung: The Rebel Port's Century — Takow Harbor, the Japanese Grid, and the Night of December 10, 1979
Most travelers skip Taiwan's second-largest city for Taipei and Kenting. They miss a harbor town where Japanese colonial warehouses now hold contemporary art, where a 1979 street protest birthed a political movement, and where the Love River went from open sewer to kayak route. This is Kaohsiung: working port, democratic battlefield, and industrial reinvention in progress.
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