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Time Taipei: A Scroll Through Time is a two-volume illustrated work that captures the spirit and transformation of Taipei across time. The first volume presents a continuous hand-drawn scroll of Taipei’s evolving urban landscape, accompanied by over 1,000 annotated news snippets drawn from decades of civic life. Each news item—ranging from major historical events to everyday policy changes and neighborhood scenes—is matched with its corresponding illustration, offering a vivid, down-to-earth portrait of the city and its people. more personal and historical approach. Based on archival scenes from the city’s past, including family genealogies The volume also features essays by nearly twenty of the from the worlds of entertainment, literature, aesthetics, and own memories and impressions of Taipei. Together, their voices of the city’s past and present. urban memory—piecing together the many lives of Taipei. the city’s hundred-year transformation comes alive in 118

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Xiang Yao is a first-generation Taiwanese folk singer. In 1983, she earned a bachelor’s degree from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles, California. She later became a partner at KRIS YAO

ARTECH, one of Taiwan’s leading architectural firms. Yao is also a well-known interdisciplinary designer whose work bridges music, fashion, architecture, and the visual arts.