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[[File:Taiwan 2009 HuaLien Taroko Gorge Narrow Gap and Road PB140025.jpg|thumb|right|160px|Taroko Gorge]]

'''The Eight Views of Taiwan''' ({{zh|t=臺灣八景}}) have been variously defined throughout [[Taiwan]]'s history.{{cn|date=October 2020}}

==Qing Dynasty==

{{Empty section|date=July 2010}} ==Under Japanese occupation== In 1927 (during the [[Taiwan under Japanese occupation|Japanese occupation]] of Taiwan), the newspaper {{nihongo||臺灣日日新報|Taiwan Nichinichi Shimpō|lead=yes}} elected the Eight Views of Taiwan according to its readers' votes as: *Rising Sun Hill ([[:zh:旭岡|旭岡]]), now [[Sun Yat-sen Park, Keelung|Sun Yat-sen Park]], [[Keelung]] *[[Tamsui]] *[[Eight Immortals Mountain]] *[[Sun Moon Lake]] *[[Alishan Range|Alishan]] *[[Shoushan (Kaohsiung)|Monkey Mountain]] *[[Cape Eluanbi]] *[[Taroko National Park|Taroko]]

==Republic of China== After the retrocession of Taiwan to the [[Republic of China]], the [[Taiwan Provincial Government]] defined the Eight Views of Taiwan in 1953 as follows: *[[Sun Moon Lake]] *[[Yushan (mountain)|Yushan]] *[[Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)|Fort Zeelandia]] *[[Alishan Range|Alishan]] *[[Yangmingshan]] *[[Taroko National Park|Taroko]] *[[Qingshui Cliff]] *[[Penghu|Penghu Islands]]

In 2005, an updated version of the Eight Views of Taiwan was published by the [[Republic of China|ROC]] [[Ministry of Transportation and Communications (Taiwan)|Ministry of Transportation and Communications]]: *[[Taipei 101]] *[[National Palace Museum]] *[[Sun Moon Lake]] *[[Alishan Range|Alishan]] *[[Yushan (mountain)|Yushan]] *[[Kaohsiung]] [[Love River]] *[[Kenting]] *[[Taroko National Park|Taroko]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==See also== {{Commonscat|Eight Views of Taiwan}} * [[Eight Views]] in China, Japan and Korea * [[Eight Views of Xiaoxiang]] * Eight Views of [[Jinzhou (Dalian)]] * Eight Views of [[Lushun South Road]], [[Dalian]] * [[Eight Views of Omi]], Japan * [[Eight Views of Korea]] * [[Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji]], by [[Hokusai]] and [[Hiroshige]]

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