Doctor Lane
Doctor Lane
A dead-end alley only 50 meters long in Xiaoxi Lane is home to at least ten doctors, and families such as Yang, Kuo, Hsieh, Wu, Su, to name a few, are all well known for the prestigious doctors in their families.
Though, according to Feng Shui, dead-end alleyways are bad fortune, along this alleyway, situated right next to Sanhe Hotel (see map 
), are kept various pot plants and flowers, whose charm graced it with the name “Garden Alley.” Further, because so many doctors were born here, this place was also known as “Doctor Lane” (see map 
); people such as Doctor Hsieh of Yi-de Hsieh’s Surgery Clinic on Yung Shing Road live on Doctor Lane.
When we interviewed the mayor, he said that Doctor Lane was also known as the location at which is staged a rather memorable episode during the days of revolution, involving specifically the “first Taiwanese woman revolutionary” Hseu-hong Hsieh. A Xiaoxi resident and political activist, after the 228 Incident she was even once chased down Doctor Lane by military officers.
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| “Chang Yin Fine Machinery,” next to Doctor Lane, was once one of the best known mold template shops in Taiwan | Dr. Hsieh of Yi-de Hsieh’s Surgery Clinic still lives on Doctor Lane |
