Zàijiàn, Táiwān
<p>One day, about a year and half ago when I first arrived in Taiwan with the intention of settling here, I was walking through the Taipei neighborhood I would eventually call home with a person who would eventually become one of my best friends here. He wasn’t impressed.</p>
<p>“Aren’t these buildings hideous?” he remarked. We were traipsing past an especially rundown housing block, its concrete periphery rust-stained, its tile front gleaming, but hued unflatteringly nonetheless.</p>
<p>He explained how the KMT — the Kuomintang, who during the Chinese Civil War opposed the thugs who would eventually become the Communist Party of China — did not flee to Taiwan with the intention of settling here. “They weren’t meant to be permanent, and it’s clear why.”</p>
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