Glimpses 驚豔

Jinguashi 金瓜石

Professor Hui Cheuk Kuen, Desmond (許焯權教授)

Jinguashi is an area in Northeast Taiwan once famous as a gold mine. It became even more famous as a tourist attraction when Taiwanese film director Hou Hsiao-hsien chose the nearby town of Jiufen for his 1989 movie, A City of Sadness, which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. A friend operates a bed and breakfast in this area, with a nice terrace looking out over the scattered buildings now converted into museums, exhibition spaces and tourist sites. It has become a favourite place for a half-day escape from Taipei via the northern seashore…

金瓜石是臺灣東北角一處曾經出產金礦而出名的地方，一九八九年因為臺灣導演侯孝賢選擇九份拍攝電影《悲情城市》，奪得當年威尼斯影展的金獅獎，帶動旁邊的金瓜石更加有名。一位朋友在這附近開辦了一家旅館，裏面餐廳的陽台可以看到整個金瓜石礦業的遺址，散佈在山上不同的廠房現在都改建成博物館或展覽室。這地方也成了我從臺北經北海岸來偷享半日閒的隱世秘境...

July 14, 2015

Jinguashi, Taiwan

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