Chinese and Taiwanese food culture: history, facts, and recipes.

Travel information for Alishan.

Professional site of the American-Taiwanese conductor. Alton, a Florida native, holds a DMA in conducting from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins and has worked with orchestras in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Currently under renovation, the full site provides a bio, audio and HD video. 

Alton's Images features photography by Alton Thompson, a classical musician based in Taiwan.

A new image appears each week in the Photoblog.

Barking Deer Adventures is a Tainan-based team specializing in small scale, personalized tours of rural Southern Taiwan.

China Airlines (中華航空公司) is Taiwan's national carrier. Its name should not be confused with Air China which belogs to China (PRC).

Learn Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters online. Basic membership is free.

Online mandarin courses, chinese dictionary, chinese calligraphy studio, chinese name translation, chinese songs, chinese poems, chinese editor, chinese annotation tool, chinese dictionary, converters for pinyin, unicode, traditional and simplified chinese, tools to build chinese websites, etc...

I taught at Hess for about 10 years. It was a very rewarding experience. I taught in Taipei at SanMin branch. I wound up writing supplementary songs to spice up some of the lessons. After returning to America, I continued to write songs for children for fun. I'd love to hear any comments or feedback. My website is www.yesnack.com

Taiwan bicycle industry, riding and information website and forums

A collection of photos of Taiwan including signs, food, the high speed rail and Taipei MRT.

Do you have vacation photos, memories, or beautiful vistas from Taiwan that you want to share? Here is your chance to win cash prizes, up to $200! Visit website of the Government Information Office of Taiwan to enter your photos and to vote on which images you think are the best among five categories: “Culture,” “Nature,” “Made in Taiwan,” “Humor,” and “Other.”

The contest only lasts until November 25th, 2009, so move quickly for your chance to win prizes worth over $2000.

EVA Air (長榮航空) is an international airline from Taiwan owned by the Evergreen Group.

As a foreigner in Taiwan myself, I wanted to create a new website, a forum to and from foreigners in Taiwan.

Taiwan's largest discussion forum in English - talk about living... working... staying fit... eating well in Taiwan (and more). Established in 1998

How to Read and Type Chinese Characters on Your Computer and Chinese Character Input Methods

Information about input methods.

How to input Chinese on your Blackberry mobile device

A Chinese learning podcast- both the podcasts and the written versions of the lessons are available for free.

Taiwan based adventure company specializing in customized adventure tours, corporate events, youth programs and event mangement. Come and explore some of the most stunning scenery on this planet!

Free online dictionary with useful additional tools like a Chinese text annotator.

Online Chinese-English dictionary. Also has Chinese to French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.

A travel guide to Penghu in English.

See our four day trip route and our pictures on GoogleMap. You can clik on the pictures on the right and see where it has been taken.

A very comprehensive source of information about pinyin and the romanization of Mandarin Chinese.

Tool for converting tone numbers to tone marks in Hanyu Pinyin. For example, Han4yu3 Pin1yin1 => Hànyŭ Pīnyīn.

Travel information for Sanyi, a woodcarving town in Miaoli county.

Includes some very useful advice about learning pronunciation and tones. There are also Chinese study book reviews.

Information about places to visit in Tainan City (台南市).

English language information about bed and breakfast accommodation in Taiwan.

Culture.tw is a Web portal and content Web site that aims to promote the arts and culture of Taiwan. It is funded by Taiwan's Council of Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan, and run by The Central News Agency of Taiwan in partnership with Taiwan's community of cultural stakeholders. Culture.tw aims to be Taiwan culture's main window on the Web -- a reference point for all English speakers around the world who wish to discover the diversity of Taiwan's culture and its lively environment, creativity and cultural life.

Taiwan HSR (high speed rail) site, with timetables and station information.

Bus tours around Taiwan. Website in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.

Taiwan TRA website, with train timetables and online ticket ordering.

Taiwan travel ideas and tips from an Italian resident ...

Information about Taiwan by Lonely Planet

A Taiwanese Trekking community website

The Youth Guesthouse Network provides budget accommodation at 25 government owned facilities around Taiwan. Beds are available for NT$500 or less per night from Sunday to Thursday. You need to have a foreign passport and be aged 15-30 with a Youth Travel card.

The website for the Communtiy Services Center located in Tianmu, Taipei. A great resource for the whole International community in Taiwan, whether you need a question answered, English language counseling, or resources to help make living in Taiwan a bit easier.

For cruise passengers to Taipei and Keelung. Maps of cruise terminal areas in Keelung and Kaohsiung plus pictures of recent cruise ship visits.

Taiwan's Number One Travel Magazine

Taiwan travelogues and images, motorcycle roadtrips, Penghu, Lanyu, Tainan. Living in Taiwan.

Tri mountain scenic area, covering Lion's Head mountain (Shitoushan), Lishan and Baguashan.

Vintage Formosa is a collection of 1,000 historical photos of Taiwan.

Official website by the Taiwan Tourism Bureau

World Learner Chinese is a learning platform for the online training of Mandarin Chinese. WLC offer on-line interactive Chinese courses  and live on-line language instruction for private, corporate and group training. World Learner Chinese: Where people of the world meet.

Chinese-English dictionary from Yahoo Taiwan. Entering Chinese characters outputs the definition in English and Zhuyin Fuhao (bo po mo fo) and Pinyin to indicate the pronunciation. There is also audio for the pronunciation.

Information and special offers for travellers in Taiwan. This is specifically targeted at people from 15-30 years old who are eligible to apply for the Youth Travel card.

Zhongwen.com contains the complete text of Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary
using the character tree system. It is a great resource for learning about and understanding Chinese characters.