My Taiwan Photograph Memoir
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Daniel Nardini
Daniel Nardini was born in Bloomington, Illinois, and raised in Elmhurst, Illinois. He graduated from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1983, with a bachelors degree in anthropology and history, and from Western Illinois University in Macomb, in 1986, with a masters degree in European and Asian history. Mr. Nardini taught English as a foreign language in Taiwan from 1990 to 1994, and in South Korea from 1996 to 1997. He worked as an editor for Lawndale News in Cicero, Illinois, from 1994 to 2014, and as a newspaper correspondent for The Fulton Journal in Fulton, Illinois, from 2018 to 2020. Mr. Nardini has written eight other books. They are: South Korea; Our Story; The Day China Cried; My Taiwan, Seoul, and Guadalajara (Mexico) Memoirs; My Italian American Family, Rural Taiwan, and Lawndale News Memoirs; My South Korea Photograph Memoir; My Taiwan Photograph Memoir; A Taoist in Rural Illinois; and More Lawndale News Memoirs. Mr. Nardini is retired, and lives with his wife Jade in Chadwick, Illinois.
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My Taiwan Photograph Memoir - Daniel Nardini
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Rev. date: 06/10/2021
Contents
Dedication
Taoist Temples
Plate 1: The outer entrance to the Taoist Temple in Sze Jiang Li
Plate 2: The inner entrance to the main part of the Taoist temple
Plate 3: The inner sanctum of the Taoist temple
Plate 4: Part of the Taoist temple courtyard
Taipei
Plate 5: The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial in Taipei
Plate 6: The Presidential Palace in Taipei (Part 1)
Plate 7: The author in front of the Presidential Palace (Part 2)
Plate 8: The author in front of the National Palace Museum
Confucian Temples
Plate 9: The Entrance to the Confucian temple in Changhua
Plate 10: The main Confucian temple. A rehearsal for the celebration
of Confucius’ birthday was being held at the time
Plate 11: Part of the rehearsal for Confucius birthday
Chinese Writing
Plate 12: Classic Chinese writing at a Taoist temple in Taichung City
The Last Vestige of True Chinese Buddhism
Plate 13: The author with a Buddhist priest
Plate 14: The author with a Buddhist monk (note: this monk was a member of the reserve in the ROC Army)
Plate 15: The Happy Buddha at Bao Chueh Temple in Taichung City
Plate 16: One of the temples at Bao Chueh
Plate 17: An outside statue of Guanyin at Bao Chueh
Rural Taiwan
Plate 18: The outer wall of the old farm house where the author lived
Plate 19: The inner Courtyard of the old farm house
Plate 20: Some of the rice fields near where the author lived
Plate 21: A footpath going through the rice field
Plate 22: A local village near the Taiwanese farm where the author lived
Plate 23: The author in a rice field near the old farm house
Austronesian Taiwan
Plate 24. Part of an Austronesian Village in central Taichung County
Plate 25: Part of the architectural style of an Austronesian home
Plate 26: Another Part of an Austronesian village
Plate 27: The author with some Austronesians dressed in traditional clothes
Plate 28: The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan