Shida Night Market Incident
師大夜市事件
Source: Yellow Ribbons Flying — The Truth Behind the Shida Night Market Controversy!
From: CommonWealth Magazine Author: Yu Chang-shan
At noon on February 27, 2012, over two hundred vendors from Shida Night Market gathered at the park at Lane 39, Shida Road, all wearing yellow shirts and yellow armbands, each holding a yellow rose, chanting: “Support the Shida shopping district — let us coexist and prosper!” The “community civil war” in the Shida Night Market area stemmed from a residents’ self-help association that believed the “mixed residential-commercial” development model — which skirted the edges of legality — was seriously damaging the residential environment and public order. They launched a self-help campaign demanding government enforcement and fines, forcing local businesses to close one by one. Bars, cafés, and music performance venues that had long been embedded in the Shida neighborhood were also caught in the crossfire.
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- [Shida Night Market Documentary Compilation] Goodbye, Night Market, Goodbye (PTS News Lab)
- The Disappearance of Underground Society (Chien Miao-ju)
- Underground Society’s Closure Desecrated! Ou-yang Jing: The Shida Self-Help Association Is a Disgrace to Taipei Elites (ETtoday)
- Shida Park in Taipei — Residents Fear It Will Become a “Body-Dump Park” (ETtoday)
- Shida Shopping District Dispute — Cultural Figures: Not a Zero-Sum Game (New Talk)