Taiwan may be small on the map, but few places offer such an astonishing range of experiences compressed into a single island. You can start your morning on a forest trail surrounded by subtropical mountains, spend the afternoon by the Pacific Ocean, and end the day with a bowl of beef noodle soup in a night market glowing under neon light. In this issue, Ulrich Clef takes us across a country where traditional temples sit in the shadow of futuristic skyscrapers, where enginee