44 South Village: A Military Dependents' Village for an Arsenal, Now a Cultural and Creative Park Beside Taipei 101

30-second overview: At the end of November 1948, as the Chinese Civil War reached a crisis, the machinery and equipment of the Combined Logistics Headquarters 44th Arsenal in Qingdao were loaded in six batches onto the Taikang and arrived at Keelung Harbor¹. In December, the factory workers and their dependents who arrived afterward were temporarily housed in the former Japanese army Xingya warehouses in Sanzhangli, where in the early period they “began living with cloth curtains as partitions”². The following year, they began building dependents’ housing on their own south of the factory compound. In this way, the Republic of China government’s first military dependents’ village in Taiwan took shape³. The village was divided into three by rank: field-grade and general officers lived in the West Village, company-grade officers lived in the East Village, and factory workers without military status lived in the South Village¹. In 1978-1980, the arsenal, already renamed Factory 206, moved to Sanxia. The West Village was demolished and redeveloped as Zhongtuo Public Housing, while the East Village was relocated to Zhongzhen Public Housing near Youth Park⁴. Only the South Village remained, because its residents were technicians and did not fall under the Ministry of National Defense’s military dependents’ village reconstruction regulations⁵. In 1998, all South Village residents moved into World Trade New Village. In 1999, a fire burned down part of the dependents’ housing. In 2001, a cultural-heritage dispute ended with the decision to preserve four symmetrical buildings. On October 25, 2003, the “Xinyi Assembly Hall and Military Dependents’ Village Cultural Park” opened, facing the Taipei 101 then under construction⁶. This article asks how a Shandong technicians’ dependents’ village that came by ship from Qingdao became the historic landscape beside Taipei 101 where foreign tourists check in every day, and where the more than 1,000 families who once lived here went.

Two Taipeis in the Plaza at 3 p.m. on a Weekend

September 2013, panorama of 44 South Village. Photo: Men1399. License via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

If you ask a Taipei resident where 44 South Village is, they will probably say, “that little park with a military dependents’ village feel next to Taipei 101.”

At three o’clock on a weekend afternoon, walk out of Exit 2 of Taipei 101/World Trade Center MRT Station, turn left onto Zhuangjing Road, and you will arrive in five minutes. The plaza is full of people. A pair of Korean tourists turn a phone horizontally, trying to fit the low red-tile roofs and the 401-meter Taipei 101 due north into the same frame⁷. A resident walking a golden retriever passes by; the dog stops at the entrance of Building B, the Military Dependents’ Village Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall, and sniffs for a long time. The Simple Market, held on Sundays from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., has already set up: handmade accessories, cultural-and-creative farm products, and a street singer sitting by the grass playing guitar⁸.

Four brick-walled, red-tile bungalows enclose a central plaza. The building on the north side is Building A, now the Xinyi Parent-Child Center, administered by the Department of Social Welfare. Building B on the east side is the Military Dependents’ Village Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall, with permanent displays of furniture, everyday objects, and traces of foods such as pancakes and fried dough twists. Building C on the south side used to be called Good Cho’s; opened in early 2011, it pushed 44 South Village into the view of Taipei’s young people through bagels and cultural-and-creative markets. Building D on the west side is an arts and performance space for small theater, a bookstore, and lectures⁹.

If you look up due north, the red aviation warning lights of Taipei 101 are flashing. If you look down at the footprints on the plaza, this is where the Shandong technicians who came by ship from Qingdao in 1948 dried quilts, burned coal-ball stoves, and wrapped dumplings for Lunar New Year.

📝 Curator’s note: 44 South Village is not an ordinary military dependents’ village. First, it was the first military dependents’ village established in Taiwan by the Republic of China government, built in 1948-1949 by employees and dependents of the Combined Logistics 44th Arsenal who came by ship from Qingdao³. Second, its residents were “factory workers” or Shandong technicians without military status or rank⁵, and institutionally were not counted in the category of “military dependents.” Third, it was the first military dependents’ village in Taipei City to be listed as a historic building, with four buildings preserved in 2003 as the Xinyi Assembly Hall and Military Dependents’ Village Cultural Park⁶. These three “firsts” together made 44 South Village an emblematic case in Taiwan’s preservation of military dependents’ villages: a village that originally should not have been preserved, because it did not fall under the reconstruction regulations, but ultimately became the first in the country to be preserved, after the intervention of the cultural affairs bureau.

Where the Name Came From: South of the 44th Arsenal

The name “44 South Village” is tied directly to an arsenal.

The predecessor of the Combined Logistics 44th Arsenal, or “Factory 44” for short, can be traced to the Central Ordnance Repair Works established in Nanjing in 1936¹⁰. At the end of November 1948, as the Chinese Civil War situation deteriorated rapidly, the Combined Logistics 44th Arsenal stationed in Qingdao faced relocation. The Arsenal Administration decided to first load machinery and equipment in six batches onto the Taikang and ship them to Taiwan, using the former Japanese military’s “Taiwan Supply Bureau Third Ordnance Repair Works” left from the Japanese colonial period to resume production and continue making artillery shells in preparation for a future counteroffensive¹.

In December, the factory workers and dependents who arrived later disembarked at Keelung Harbor and were placed in the “Japanese army’s Xingya warehouses,” military warehouses left by the Japanese army in the Sanzhangli area east of Taipei during the Japanese colonial period¹¹. Initial living conditions were extremely poor. The National Museum of Taiwan History records that “at the beginning, the arsenal’s employees and dependents made the factory their home”³, while the Veterans Affairs Council’s veterans culture website records that “in the early period, employees lived inside the arsenal warehouses, beginning life with cloth curtains as partitions”².

The following year, 1949, the arsenal began building dependents’ housing on its own south of the factory compound. Because it was located south of the 44th Arsenal, it was named “44 South Village”¹¹. The village’s housing was divided by construction sequence into three major building groups labeled Bing, Yi, and Jia¹². Most were single-story buildings with mixed brick-and-timber structures, narrow lanes, small rooms, and shared toilets².

“Most residents were Shandong people”¹. This is a crucial detail, because the arsenal had originally been stationed in Qingdao, and the employees and dependents who retreated to Taiwan were mainly from Shandong Province. The stereotype of Taiwan’s postwar military dependents’ villages is often “Sichuan-Yangzhou cuisine and Sichuan speech,” but the food of 44 South Village was Shandong in style: pancakes, fried dough twists, cornbread buns, and a snack called “qizi,” made by rolling flour and sugar flat, pan-frying it, and cutting it into small squares². The village cooperative sold Shandong steamed buns and Shandong dumplings, entirely different from the dialects and foodways of the Youth Park dependents’ villages or the Dazhi naval dependents’ villages.

📝 Curator’s note: The name “Factory 44” itself carries a dense military history. It began with the Nanjing Central Ordnance Repair Works in 1936, then moved to the rear during the War of Resistance, took over Japanese military industrial assets after the war, stationed in Qingdao, retreated to Taiwan, resumed operations in Sanzhangli, and in 1980 moved again to Sanxia and was renamed Factory 206. Of its seven relocations, two, Qingdao to Taiwan and Sanzhangli to Sanxia, wrote its fate directly into Taiwan’s landscape. 44 South Village is the physical trace left between those two migrations. It is also the physical trace left in Taiwan by Shandong employees and dependents from the Qingdao period. What the Taikang carried over in 1948 was not only machinery, but an entire set of Shandong speech, Shandong wheat foods, and Shandong habits, which later fermented for fifty years on the patch of grass beside Taipei 101.

One Arsenal Sustained Three Villages: Officers, Junior Officers, and Technicians

To understand 44 South Village, one must also know the two sibling villages that have disappeared: 44 West Village and 44 East Village.

According to the personnel structure after the arsenal moved to Taiwan, Factory 44 personnel could roughly be divided into three levels: senior officers, including field-grade and company-grade officers; ordinary mid- and lower-ranking military personnel; and technicians without military status¹. The following year, the three villages were assigned by rank: the West Village housed field-grade and general officers and was located on Section 1 of Keelung Road; the East Village housed company-grade officers and was located in Lane 260, Wuxing Street; the South Village housed non-military technicians and was located on Section 5 of Xinyi Road⁴¹³. All three villages were near the factory compound and reachable on foot.

Rank differences were reflected in material conditions. The housing in 44 West Village was of a higher specification, though living conditions were poor. 44 East Village housed mid-level company-grade military personnel. 44 South Village housed factory workers with the lowest status, without military appointment or rank⁴. One arsenal produced three military dependents’ villages of different grades, a material projection of the Nationalist government’s military tradition of clear hierarchy and graded housing.

But three decades later, history gave the three villages very different outcomes.

44 West Village: Demolished and redeveloped in place in 1980. In 1983, “Zhongtuo Public Housing” was completed. “Zhong” means loyalty; “tuo” means camel bell. The public housing name continued the dependents’ village’s anti-communist national symbols, but the building itself was already a reinforced-concrete multi-story apartment block, with none of the lanes of a dependents’ village⁴.

44 East Village: Relocated to “Zhongzhen Public Housing” near Youth Park. The two characters “Zhongzhen,” meaning loyal and steadfast, directly borrowed the naming logic of Zhongzhen New Village in Zhongli, Taoyuan, preserving an object of military dependents’ village memory in the name of new public housing, even though the physical buildings had changed¹⁴.

44 South Village: Residents were not fully moved out until 1998. Their destination was “World Trade New Village” on the edge of Xinyi District. Why did it take so long? Because “the main body of South Village residents were factory workers, without military status or rank, creating a conflict over eligibility under the Ministry of National Defense’s dependents’ village reconstruction regulations”⁵. The Ministry of National Defense’s reconstruction regulations were for military personnel; factory workers were institutionally not counted as “dependents’ households,” and how to calculate compensation became a long-running unresolved dispute¹⁵.

📝 Curator’s note: This story of an “institutional blind spot” is a side of Taiwan’s military dependents’ village history that is rarely told. The Ministry of National Defense’s reconstruction regulations assumed that residents of dependents’ villages were military family members, so the formula for relocation compensation was based on military rank. But residents of 44 South Village were arsenal technicians. They had state-assigned living space and pay slips from the arsenal, but no military rank. When the West Village and East Village were smoothly redeveloped according to rank, South Village residents were stuck for twenty years in a gray zone of “not dependents’ households, but living in a dependents’ village.” This twenty-year delay unexpectedly saved 44 South Village. Because it was not demolished in time, it later had a chance to be preserved as cultural heritage. Not falling under the regulations changed from a disadvantage into a condition of survival.

Emptied in 1998, Burned in 1999, Decided in 2001

The demolition of 44 South Village was a tug-of-war.

Late 1980s: Planning for the Xinyi Planning District had been brewing since 1976, when the Executive Yuan instructed that the 44th Arsenal be relocated. In 1977, Mayor Lin Yang-kang added the concept of a “secondary city center.” In 1980-1981, the city government announced the main plan and detailed plan¹⁶. The former arsenal land was designated for public facilities, including residential districts around Songzhi Road and Songqin Road and commercial districts around Songshou Road and Songgao Road¹⁶. 44 South Village was also drawn into the urban renewal area.

1990s: Compensation negotiations for South Village residents under the dependents’ village reconstruction program repeatedly stalled. The housing aged, leaked, and suffered serious termite damage. Waves of residents moved out under individual agreements.

1998: Only then did all South Village residents finish moving out, relocating to the completed World Trade New Village redevelopment⁴.

1999: A fire broke out in 44 South Village, burning down part of the dependents’ housing¹⁵. At the time, the fire was seen as a signal that demolition would accelerate. Since the houses had already burned, demolishing the whole village and replanning the site seemed the next logical step.

But the “logical” outcome did not happen.

1999-2001: Dependents’ village residents, cultural-heritage scholars, and community workers formed the “44 South Village National Historic Monument Promotion Alliance,” launched a series of movements to preserve military dependents’ village culture, and established the “44 South Village Cultural History Studio”¹⁷. Their argument was that 44 South Village was the first military dependents’ village established in Taiwan by the Republic of China government, and the first material evidence documenting Mainlanders’ retreat from China to Taiwan and their self-built housing. If the whole village were demolished, there would be no visible object left for this history.

“The demolition case for 44 South Village remained unresolved until it was formally decided in 2001”¹⁵. The 2001 decision was a compromise between the two sides: neither preserving the whole village nor demolishing it entirely.

Preservation plan: Demolish most of the dependents’ housing, but leave four representative symmetrical buildings around the central plaza.

Preservation scope: A site area of about 4,150 ping and building floor area of about 720 ping⁹.

Procedure: After inspection by the Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs’ historic monument review committee, 44 South Village was listed as a “historic building,” and the four preserved buildings entered planning and redevelopment⁹.

⚠️ Contested view: The 2001 “demolish nine, preserve four” plan, meaning demolition of most of the village and preservation of four buildings, was controversial even then. On one side, cultural-heritage circles felt that at least some material evidence had been preserved. On the other, some residents and more radical cultural-heritage advocates felt that four buildings were too few to sustain the overall texture of military dependents’ village culture. In retrospect, these four buildings can indeed present only a material fragment of the village: the lanes are gone, the cooperative is gone, and the arsenal bell at the street corner is gone. But those four buildings were also the limit of negotiation at the time. Without the cultural-heritage dispute of 2001, even those four buildings would have been razed. Between “imperfect preservation” and “complete disappearance” lay the real boundary of military dependents’ village cultural preservation in Taiwan in 2001.

The Day of Rebirth: Buildings A, B, C, and D

October 25, 2003, was the day 44 South Village was reborn.

That day, the “Xinyi Assembly Hall and Military Dependents’ Village Cultural Park” appeared with a new look⁹. The site area was about 4,150 ping, with building floor area of about 720 ping. Compared with the original village, this was a severely compressed version. But the four symmetrical brick-walled, red-tile bungalows enclosed a central plaza, and the air-raid shelter beside them was transformed into a small grassy hill. Together with holiday market events, the site had become a place for Taipei residents to walk and relax⁹.

Each of the four buildings has its own function[^9]:

• Building A: Xinyi Parent-Child Center, administered by the Taipei City Department of Social Welfare, offering a play space with “natural wood and handmade teaching aids for parent-child play”
• Building B: Military Dependents’ Village Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall, a static exhibition on 44 South Village’s historical trajectory, dependents’ village arts and literature, dependents’ village mothers, dependents’ village food, dependents’ village life, dependents’ village games, dependents’ village crafts, and a multimedia screening room, open free Tuesday to Sunday, 09:00-17:00
• Building C: Good Cho’s cultural-and-creative dining and lifestyle space, operated by Good Cho’s and opened in early 2011¹⁸
• Building D: Arts, bookstore, and theater space

May 2007, exterior of the preserved dependents’ housing at 44 South Village. Photo: Prattflora. License via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Walk into Building B and the first thing you meet is the permanent exhibition on the historical trajectory of 44 South Village. In old photographs on the wall, Shandong aunties and grandmothers air quilts in the plaza, factory workers walk home from the factory gate after work, and children kick shuttlecocks in the lanes. In one 1962 group photo of the cooperative, the words “Factory 44 Welfare Cooperative” can be made out. In that era every military dependents’ village had a cooperative, and what it sold was adjusted according to the provincial-origin preferences of the village. The cooperative at 44 South Village sold Shandong steamed buns, Shandong dumplings, and Shandong pancakes.

The display cases preserve everyday objects from that time: coal-ball stoves, enamel washbasins, aluminum lunch boxes printed with the Blue Sky with a White Sun emblem, and children’s literacy textbooks. One glass case displays “qizi,” a snack made by rolling flour and sugar flat, pan-frying it, and cutting it into squares². The taste of Shandong is statically preserved in this exhibition hall, but when you walk out of Building B and into Good Cho’s in Building C, you smell a bagel oven.

Two smells exist at the same time on a 4,150-ping site.

Good Cho’s Moves In: Building D and a New Generation of “Military Dependents’ Village Cultural Creativity”

Good Cho’s in Building C is the entrance through which a new generation of Taipei residents came to know 44 South Village.

In early 2011, Good Cho’s Xinyi store opened in 44 South Village, at “No. 54, Songqin Street”¹⁸. Good Cho’s positioned itself as a composite space of “bagels + curated goods + market + cultural activities.” You can buy savory and sweet bagels they bake, cultural-and-creative products by Taiwanese designers, and organic produce delivered directly by farmers. On Sunday afternoons, the “Simple Market” sets up outside in the plaza, running every Sunday from 13:00 to 19:00⁸.

For young Taipei residents who only came to know 44 South Village after the 2010s, Good Cho’s is the representative face of the place. On Instagram, 80% of the photos tagged “#44SouthVillage” are Good Cho’s bagels, Good Cho’s sign, and the grass in front of Good Cho’s. For older second-generation residents of the dependents’ village, this transformation is double-edged. On the one hand, Good Cho’s revived the popularity of this site; without foot traffic, the four buildings might not have lasted until 2026. On the other hand, bagels and Shandong steamed buns are not the same food, and a cultural-and-creative market is not the same space as the village cooperative.

November 2016, details of the preserved red-brick bungalows at 44 South Village. Photo: Mizuhara gumi. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

⚠️ Contested view: The phrase “military dependents’ village cultural creativity” carries tension in itself. A dependents’ village was a material space hurriedly constructed by post-1949 migrants. Its characteristics were density, low buildings, shared facilities, and poverty: a form squeezed out of life. Cultural creativity is a curatorial space under twenty-first-century capital logic. Its characteristics are selection, added value, narrative, and consumability: a form added at the level of design. Turning a dependents’ village into a cultural-and-creative space is, to some extent, packaging memories of deprivation as a consumable “atmosphere product.” Whether Good Cho’s bagels taste good is one matter; standing in the 44 South Village plaza eating a bagel and standing at the cooperative entrance in 1962 eating a Shandong steamed bun are two different times and spaces. This tension recurs in Taiwan’s cases of military dependents’ village cultural preservation, from Mingde New Village in Zuoying, Kaohsiung, to the dependents’ village beside National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu and Zhongzhen New Village in Taoyuan. All face the same question: preserving objects is easy; preserving a way of life is impossible.

The Arsenal Bell Is Now Taipei 101’s Aviation Warning Light

Walk 200 meters south out of the 44 South Village plaza and you reach Taipei 101.

The contrast between the two buildings is one of Taipei’s most photographed “history vs. modernity” juxtapositions: red-tile bungalows built by Shandong technicians who came from Qingdao in 1948, beside a 508-meter supertall completed in 2004¹⁹. The dependents’ village’s low profile and Taipei 101’s verticality; the village’s red brick and Taipei 101’s glass curtain wall; the arsenal bell and Taipei 101’s aviation warning light.

_March 2017, 44 South Village and Taipei 101 in the same frame. Photo: Hal Maa. License via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).*

Geographically, the two buildings stand on the same former site of the 44th Arsenal.

In 1976, the Executive Yuan instructed that the 44th Arsenal be relocated, and the land was to be used for military, civil-service, education personnel, and public housing¹⁶. In 1977, Mayor Lin Yang-kang added the idea of a “secondary city center.” From 1978, the arsenal, already renamed Factory 206, successively moved to its new plant in Sanxia, completing the move in 1980⁴. In 1980-1981, the main plan and detailed plan for the Xinyi Planning District were announced. Architect Kuo Mao-lin, who had lived in Japan, suggested adding the concept of a commercial center in addition to housing and a municipal center¹⁶. From 1981 to 1986, the “Songshan District Phase II Urban Land Readjustment” was formally carried out, obtaining land for public facilities. After the 1990s, high-rises rose one by one in the Xinyi Planning District: the World Trade Center, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Xinyi Place, and the Eslite Songyan store. In 1999, Xinyi Junior High School was demolished. In 2004, Taipei 101 was completed on this land¹⁹.

The sound of the arsenal bell that marked artillery-shell production disappeared. A 401-meter lightning rod took its place.

💡 Did you know: Taipei 101 as seen from the 44 South Village plaza is not a “coincidental neighbor.” The entire Taipei 101 site was originally the factory compound of the 44th Arsenal. After the arsenal moved to Sanxia in 1980, the land was designated as the Xinyi Planning District and divided into different zones. The site of Taipei 101 was originally Xinyi Junior High School. In 1999, Xinyi Junior High was demolished; the site was won by the international financial center development project and completed in 2004. In other words, the two buildings you see while standing in the 44 South Village plaza are actually “two remainders of the arsenal”: the land to the south became a 401-meter financial tower, while this small corner to the north preserved four dependents’ houses. The geographic inheritance is more direct than the cultural contrast.

Three Places Locals Would Take You

If you come to 44 South Village, tourists will all take the Taipei 101 contrast photo, but these three places are where fewer people stop to look.

The air-raid shelter behind Building B: A small air-raid shelter from the period is still preserved among the four symmetrical buildings⁹. During the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, every military dependents’ village had air-raid drills. When the alarm sounded, residents ran in designated directions into the shelter. Today the shelter has been transformed into “South Village Hill”: grass grows over it, and from outside it looks like a green mound about one meter high, but from a distance you can see that it has an artificial curved shape. Sit on top for a moment and you can see the full line of Taipei 101 due north, along with the red-tile roofs close enough below to touch.

The “dependents’ village canteen” menu at Good Cho’s in Building C: Good Cho’s is known for bagels, but the interior of Building C also preserves some menu items that pay homage to Shandong dependents’ village food²⁰. On weekends there are occasionally limited items such as Shandong pancakes and wonton soup. If you happen to encounter them, order one with a cup of coffee, and in the same afternoon you can taste both “a contemporary interpretation of dependents’ village food” and “the new Taipei of the cultural-and-creative market.”

Little Hyatt South Village Eatery in the lanes near 44 South Village: It is not inside the park, but it is very close. Walk out of the 44 South Village plaza to Section 5 of Xinyi Road, and in the lanes there is a shop called “Little Hyatt South Village Eatery”²¹, serving affordable dependents’ village flavors: fried noodles, braised dishes, and rolled flatbreads. The owner is a descendant of a family that came from Qingdao in 1949. Compared with Good Cho’s bagels, this eatery is “the dependents’ village flavor that is truly still alive.” Compared with the static displays in the museum, it is still doing business and still selling Shandong snacks to nearby office workers for lunch.

November 2016, central plaza of 44 South Village. Photo: Mizuhara gumi. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Taikang of 1948, Seventy-Seven Years Later

Walk back to the 44 South Village plaza and sit for a while.

At the end of November 1948, the Taikang sailed out of Qingdao Harbor. On board was the machinery and equipment of the Combined Logistics 44th Arsenal, shipped in six batches. In December, the factory workers and dependents who arrived later landed at Keelung Harbor and were housed in the former Japanese army Xingya warehouses in Sanzhangli. The following year, they began building dependents’ housing on their own south of the factory compound: the Republic of China government’s first military dependents’ village in Taiwan.

Seventy-seven years later, most of the people that the Taikang carried over are no longer here. Some of their children live in World Trade New Village, some moved to Songshan or Neihu, and some went to the United States or Canada. Their grandchildren may have no idea that their grandparents once lived in a place called 44 South Village.

But the former arsenal site has not disappeared completely. It left behind four brick-and-tile bungalows: in Building A, children play every day with teaching aids; in Building B, coal-ball stoves and enamel washbasins from that time are statically displayed; in Building C, bagels and coffee are sold; in Building D, there is small theater and a bookstore.

It also left behind the 401-meter Taipei 101: another remainder of the same arsenal compound, built on the former site of Xinyi Junior High School.

At three o’clock on a weekend afternoon, foreign tourists in the plaza are still taking photographs, framing the dependents’ housing of 1948 with the financial center of the twenty-first century. Most of them do not know that the two buildings stand within the same arsenal compound. They do not need to know.

But the next time you stand on this grass, you will know.

Further reading:

• Taipei City — a 12-district panorama that places 44 South Village back into Xinyi District and the broader timeline of Taipei among Taiwan’s 22 counties and cities
• Development of Taiwan’s Cultural and Creative Parks — from Huashan to Songyan to 44 South Village, Taiwan’s model of “cultural-heritage preservation + cultural-and-creative occupancy”
• Taiwanese Military Dependents’ Village Cuisine — Shandong pancakes, Hunan cured meat, Sichuan dan dan noodles: the material traces of dependents’ village food geography and provincial origins
• Taiwan’s Provincial-Origin Tensions — from the first to the second and third generations of Mainlanders, seeing postwar Taiwan’s ethnic structure through 44 South Village
• Taipei 101 — the 401-meter supertall visible from the 44 South Village plaza; together with the dependents’ housing, it is one of two remainders of the same arsenal site
• Dadaocheng — a sibling in the same Batch 1 historic district series; a Qing-period commercial street and a postwar dependents’ village mark two different “moments when streets took shape” in Taipei
• Ximending — a sibling in the same Batch 1 historic district series; a Japanese-period entertainment district and a postwar dependents’ village are two types of legacy left by the Japanese
• Yongkang Street — two modes of settlement after the 1949 Mainlander migration to Taiwan: material contrasts between dependents’ housing and the takeover of Japanese-style dormitories
• Guling Street — the postwar Nanhai Academy and Guling Street used-book district form another Mainlander intellectual landscape, contrasting with 44 South Village’s arsenal dependents’ housing as two postwar Mainlander settlement structures: “literati vs. military industry”

Image Sources

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• 四四南村.jpg — Photo: Men1399, 2013-09-07, CC BY-SA 3.0
• Buildings_at_Four_Four_South_Village...with_Taipei_101.jpg — Photo: Hal Maa, 2017-03-09, CC BY-SA 4.0
• Forty-four-south-village.JPG — Photo: Prattflora, 2007-05-20, CC BY-SA 3.0
• 44南村1.JPG — Photo: Mizuhara gumi, 2016-11-11, Public Domain
• 44南村2.JPG — Photo: Mizuhara gumi, 2016-11-11, Public Domain

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