The youthful generation is busy in long-sleepy old Tainan City, Taiwan’s oldest urban center, founded in the 1600s. Local young folk revel in giving new life, personality, and mission to the humbler old architectural jewels they’ve grown up with, creating a treasure map of small eateries, tea rooms, cafés, boutique hotels, and other cultural-creative enterprises for travelers to culture-spelunk. The city of Tainan was established by the colonizing Dutch in the early 1600s, and taken over by the imperial Chinese in the late 1600s. The colonizing Japanese more recently spent 50 years adding their own cultural touches, from 1895 to

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