Taiwan Through Local Eyes

The Police Station That Became a Memorial to the People It Suppressed

On the corner of Dadaocheng's Ningxia Road stands a khaki three-story building most visitors walk right past. Built in 1933 as Taipei's main colonial police station, it imprisoned activist and doctor Chiang Wei-shui more than twelve times. Today it's a free museum — and one of the more quietly unsettling places in the city.