Eastern District Vs. Western District
Historically, the Eastern District was not the downtown area of Taipei City. The area was wilderness under the rule of the Qing Dynasty and Japanese. The development of ZhongXiao East Road after the 1960s and the development of the MRT led to the rapid transformation of the Eastern District into a major business district, much like the areas in front of Taipei Main Station and Ximending, back in their prime.
In contrast to the Eastern District, which is the present-day financial district of Taipei, the Western District primarily consists of administrative buildings for the Central Government.
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Famous quotes containing the words eastern, district and/or western:
“And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!”
—Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)