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Eight Views of Taiwan

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The Eight Views of Taiwan (Chinese: 臺灣八景) have been variously defined throughout Taiwan's history.[citation needed]

Qing Dynasty

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Under Japanese occupation

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In 1927 (during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan), the newspaper Taiwan Nichinichi Shimpō (Japanese: 臺灣日日新報) elected the Eight Views of Taiwan according to its readers' votes as:

Republic of China

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After the retrocession of Taiwan to the Republic of China, the Taiwan Provincial Government defined the Eight Views of Taiwan in 1953 as follows:

In 2005, an updated version of the Eight Views of Taiwan was published by the ROC Ministry of Transportation and Communications:

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See also

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