44 South Military Village

This guide to 44 South Military Village in Taipei follows workers from a mainland Chinese arsenal who arrived in Keelung in November 1948 and built makeshift shelter from bamboo, scrap tiles and lumber on this spot. You'll hear how the settlement housed generations of families for fifty years, laid out so the arsenal could count every household, even as Taipei's skyline rose in glass towers around it. Picture the shoulder-width alleys as you walk through the surviving rows.