The Red Lines on Taiwan's Map Kept Moving for 300 Years — I Read the Provincial Chronicles and Found a Governance Algorithm Being Debugged in Real Time
I was in Wanhua not long ago. Standing in front of Longshan Temple, staring at the old streets, a question hit me: during the Qing dynasty, Taiwan’s administrative center was in Tainan. So why did it end up in Taipei? Most people would say it’s obvious — the north developed, the population grew, it just made sense to upgrade. But after reading the Revised Taiwan Provincial Chronicles: Administrative Evolution, I realized this was anything but “natural.” ...