Chunghsing

In 1958 the Taiwan provincial government was moved to a new site southeast of the mid-island city of Taichung, in Chunghsing New Village, Nantou hsien (county). This site, some 180 kilometers down island from Taipei and so located near the center of the island, was supposed to delineate clearly centers of power. However, this clear separation has never truly evolved for several reasons. First, the provincial government for a long time lacked the trained administrative and technical personnel to carry out all its functions. Therefore projects conceived and developed in Chunghsing New Village commonly had to be approved in Taipei before they could be implemented (Jacoby, 1966). Secondly, government personnel and legislators working in Chunghsing New Village disliked the area, which they perceived rightly as being far removed from the center of power.

1995, Roger Mark Selya, “From colonial backwater to world city”, in Taipei, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4

Nine months after the ‘Interim Statute’ took effect a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit Taiwan on 21 September 1999, which was generally referred to as the 921 Earthquake.⁵¹ The epicentre — Chichi (Jiji) — was roughly 20 kilometres to the south of Chunghsing New Village, and the earthquake destroyed almost half of the community.

2015, Bi-yu Chang, Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL

The largest rarely used facility is an advanced research park in Nantou County’s Chunghsing New Village (中興新村), which used to house the defunct Taiwan Provincial Government.

2016 November 1, Shelley Shan, “‘Mosquito buildings’ to be put to use”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2016, Taiwan News, page 3