Taiwanese youths take pictures at the Museum of Military Dependents' Village against a backdrop of the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan, 2015. A military dependents village is a community in Taiwan built in the late 1940s and the 1950s whose original purpose was to serve as provisional housing for soldiers of the Republic of China Armed Forces and their dependents from mainland China after the Government of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Kuomintang (KMT) retreated to Taiwan in 1949. They ended up becoming permanent settlements, forming distinct cultures as enclaves of mainlanders in Taiwanese cities.