The former residence of Yin Hai-Kuang is a modest, single-story Japanese-style wooden house with a darkened, weathered exterior. Yin, a prominent philosopher and writer, lived here during the nineteen fifties and sixties while teaching at…
Wenzhou Street Bookstore Walk
This stroll through the leafy, quiet lanes near National Taiwan University takes you to legendary basement bookstores, historic faculty homes, and cozy reading cafes that define Taipei's progressive academic culture.
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1. Former Residence of Yin Hai-Kuang
2. Editor Books & Cafe
The Editor Books and Cafe is marked by a wide, glass-fronted facade framed in dark metal, sitting quietly along the street in the Longpo neighborhood. It occupies the ground floor of a converted residential building, functioning as both a…
3. Rebirth
Rebirth stands out because of the tangle of exposed concrete and twisted steel rebar pushing through its walls, a deliberate choice to make the structure look like a ruin in the process of healing. This art installation occupies a former…
4. Fembooks
Fembooks sits on the second floor of a quiet residential building in the Gongguan neighborhood, marked by a small, unassuming sign. It serves as the only bookstore in Taiwan dedicated entirely to feminist literature and gender studies.…
5. 書屋花甲Ｘ而立書店（台大店）
The shop front features a weathered wooden sign and a collection of mismatched chairs spilling onto the sidewalk. This space combines two distinct missions: it functions as a bookstore for independent titles and as a community kitchen.…
6. 唐山書店
Tangshan Bookstore sits in a basement tucked away on a side street near the university, marked by a plain sign and walls lined with academic titles. Established in nineteen seventy-nine, it served as an essential hub for banned literature…