From the Kinmen Islands, a Taiwanese outpost just three kilometers at its closest point from China, residents can stand on a beach and look across at the growing forest of skyscrapers in the Chinese ...

STORY: On Kinmen, Taiwan’s distant outpost that hugs the Chinese coast, a crumbling, decaying site is a reminder of decades of warfare. These broken wooden seats belong to a long-abandoned cinema. It ...

Four miles off the coast of the bustling port city of Xiamen, China, is a rural island called Kinmen, which translates to “Golden Door.” Hokka and Fujianese descendants from the mainland make up most ...

As the sun sets over Taiwan’s Kinmen islands, the neon lights of mainland China dazzle in the distance just 2.5 miles away. Yet as striking as the lights on the horizon are the reminders, everywhere, ...

The Kinmen Islands is a small Taiwanese territory located a few miles off the coast of mainland China, in Xiamen Bay. The largest island is encircled by a sandy shoreline and studded by rocks. The ...

On Kinmen Island, less than an hour’s boat ride from the cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou in China’s Fujian Province, bar owner Powei Lee draws crowds by blending the tiny island’s battle-scared past ...

A disembodied hand arranges three documents on a table: a Taiwan passport, a United States passport and a travel permit issued by China. “More and more, I feel like a kid whose parents are involved in ...

Having written numerous essays on the issue of Taiwan’s sovereignty over the past two years, I have gathered them to form a small book of 50,000 words. Additionally, with my research and observations ...

3:21 Taiwan’s Kinmen Island caught in the middle of conflict with China Wu Tseng-dong prides himself on making something good out of something terrible. The blacksmith runs a workshop on Taiwan’s ...

A convenient weekend break from the noise and bustle of Taipei is a one-hour flight to the island of Kinmen. Although Kinmen is controlled by Taiwan, it lies only eight kilometers from the Chinese ...