Friday, April 26, 2013

Cold War-era Republic of China (Taiwan) passport

This was inspired by rchen, who recently posted something similar. I'm doing a bit of house cleaning and came upon my childhood passport.




3 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 26, 2013 at 7:13 PM

    Great document from the Cold War!

    It's interesting that today there is something like that in the Muslim countries that issue their passports as unvalid to visit Israel.

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  2. AnonymousApril 27, 2013 at 8:36 AM

    Yes, according to Wikipedia.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport#Limitations_on_passport_use

    Here is one example, on an old Bangladeshi passport that also ruled out visits to Rhodesia, Taiwan and South Africa.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bangladeshi_passport_(pre-1979).jpg

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  3. RichApril 29, 2013 at 10:05 PM

    Confirming from the recent renewal exercise: Still not allowed to smile.

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