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National Palace Museum, Taiwan The National Palace Museum in Taiwan (here after the NPM) is one of the best museums in the world and definitely the best place to explore Chinese culture and history. It is incomparable in its comprehensive collection of quality Chinese art. In recent years, the NPM in Taiwan won several important international awards that recognized its creative maneuver in managing the museum, in particular, in its efforts in transforming the culture of antiques into a fashion. It might still be a fashion of culture tourism, but more significantly, it also creates a fashion for museum culture. The NPM has introduced a new lens of technology through which ideas of past, history, and culture could be seen from a up-to-date viewpoint. I am frequently appalled by some popularized forms of culture, to be honest. However, efforts in makingthe so-called high-brow culture in museums 'popular' and 'known', like what the NPM is making, have to be appreciated. Ne...
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Traveling through spaces Manchester Airport at 4 am looked just like a tunnel in the space in Strar Trek. It was raining. The lighting and transparent tubes ushered travelers to a point of trasmission through which every passenger would be led to another space and time. My body seemed to be enabled to glow under the surrealistic neon, resumming an alian identity. Homecoming is, more than any other type of travels, a journey through temporal and physical spaces.