The former residence of philosopher Yin Hai-kuang occupies a one-story wooden cottage at the end of Alley sixteen off Wenzhou Street. Built in the style of Japanese-era dormitory architecture, the structure features a garden area…
Wenzhou Street Bookstore Walk
This stroll through the leafy, quiet lanes near National Taiwan University takes you to legendary basement bookstores, historic faculty homes, and cozy reading cafes that define Taipei's progressive academic culture.
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1. Former Residence of Yin Hai-Kuang
2. Editor Books & Cafe
Editor Books and Cafe, known locally by its Chinese name Luan Shu Xia, sits on Wenzhou Street near the National Taiwan University campus. The shop is immediately recognizable by the deep green walls that color its interior, designed to…
3. Rebirth
Rebirth Café and Restaurant sits along Wenzhou Street in the Daxue neighborhood of Taipei. It operates within a low-rise, older building that blends into the dense grid of lanes surrounding the National Taiwan University campus. This area…
4. Fembooks
Fembooks, located in an alley off Xinsheng South Road, opened in nineteen ninety-four as the first feminist bookstore in the Chinese-speaking world. The shop was established by a group of activists from the Awakening Foundation to create a…
5. 書屋花甲Ｘ而立書店（台大店）
Book House and Stand Bookstore sits on Roosevelt Road near National Taiwan University. A food sharing refrigerator stands outside the storefront, providing bread and other items to the community. The shop combines two social missions: the…
6. 唐山書店
唐山書店位於羅斯福路三段一條巷弄的地下室，入口處的樓梯間總是貼滿了各式演唱會、社會運動與劇場表演的活動海報。這間書店由陳隆昊在十九八二年成立，長期以來作為台灣人文與社會科學書籍的集散地，鄰近國立台灣大學的地理位置，使它成為許多學生與知識份子尋找冷門學術著作的場所。 在台灣戒嚴時期，唐山書店曾扮演過雙重意義上的地下角色。它不僅在空間上位於地下室，更在思想層次上成為批判性書籍的流通管道，銷售當時難以取得的左翼、社會學與哲學著作。為了讓學子能以負擔得起的價格獲取這些知識，書店早年…