Size Matters: Taiwan's Unwritten Rules Of Public Conduct

Once upon a time in Taiwan you could simply pick a plot of empty land to build your family tomb, a reason that graves now speckle otherwise green hills above downtown Taipei. You could even build a house on some tracts. All without permits. The early Taiwanese (like a lot of early peoples) settled things with mere understandings, not a system of written codes. The basic understanding was that size matters – size, speed, money, wit and clout. This land was made for you and me but if I'm bigger, faster and all that, more emphasis goes to me than you.