Taiwan Normal University

The Shida area is pleasant for a stroll on the weekend and the lynch pin of the area is the Taiwan Normal University. Worth a couple of pictures I think. The Japanese established the place during the colonial era as Taiwan Provincial College and then renamed it Taihoku College (as inTaipei in Japanese). Basically it trained administrators.

The original campus buildings are of course designed to look somewhat like a western university incorporating features of the neo-classical, gothic and gothic revival styles – being early twentieth century it looks more American than European to me personally. Of course lots of new bits have been added on as the college has expended but the central campus buildings remain.