Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Former tobacco factory village of dormitories, a nursery and bathhouses, now creative studios and galleries.
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This guide to Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei traces the tobacco factory built here in 1937 under Japanese rule, a walled-in company village where workers married, gave birth and raised their children on site, with its own dormitories, clinic and heated baths. It follows the sharp divide between the mostly female Taiwanese workforce on the line and the almost entirely Japanese managers who lived apart from them, and the nickname locals gave a coveted job here: the golden rice bowl. Walk the old dormitory blocks and workshops that have since become the park's studios and galleries.
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