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A beautiful servey of Taiwan's native peoples, in English and Chinese, lavishly illustrated with black and white and color photos. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Social Justice, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2006. The length of the article is 10719 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Deploying weapons of the weak in civil society: political culture in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Author: Ming-cheng M. Lo
Publication: Social Justice (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 33Issue: 2Page: 77(28)

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Pedestrian 1970s ethnography of atomized Taiwanese village
With a foreshortened historical perspective, Harrelldescribes changing patterns of employment, internal stratification, social grouping, family types, and ancestral cults in a former mining town in Haishan that became involved in manufacturing, both in local, small, subcontracting enterprises and as a source of labor for larger enterprises in and around nearby Daiba (Taipei) during the 1970s. He attributes the absence of lineage organization to the difficulties involved in collective ownership of property other than land and the ease of migration for those not tied to landholdings. (Many Taiwanese villages were exclusively or predominantly comprised of persons with the same surname. The one he studied was atypical in its mixture of surnames.)

Harrelldiscusses the social and economic co-operation of unrelated persons, the simplification of ancestor worship in a locale without established lineage organizations, and the relatively higher status of women in a place where the household is the predominant unit of social organization. Rates of uxorilocal marriage are higher (15%) and rates of minor marriage are lower (35%) than in peasant villages in which the lineage is the major unit of social organization. Harrell attributes the relative lack of "dependency" symptoms (stratification and comprador capitalism) to the expansion of the (manufacturing) core to such villages, while avoiding examination of politics, local, national, or international. (In earlier work,he creditedJapanese development of transport infrastructure and agriculture for providing the base for decentralized industrialdevelopment.) ... Read more

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Compilation of color photos with exposition in both Chinese and English. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 640 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture.(Book review)
Author: Lane J. Harris
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 79Issue: 3Page: 533(3)

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This is the first English-language anthology on the Taiwan New Cinema and its legacy. It is an exciting collection which covers all the major filmmakers from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to Ang Lee and more. It gathers a range of essays that analyze individual films produced since the advent of the Taiwan New Cinema in the early 1980s..

"As the first English-language anthology on Taiwan New Cinema, this is truly a groundbreaking work. The editors have assembled a collection of insightful essays by a group of well-informed and critically astute scholars. The book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to acquire an in-depth understanding of Taiwanese cinema, or more broadly, transnational Chinese-language cinema." - Sheldon H. Lu, University of California at Davis ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, published by Broadcast Education Association on June 22, 1999. The length of the article is 7474 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Recent deregulation in Taiwan, including the lifting of a ban against Japanese programs and the authorization of commercial CATV, has resulted in a rapid increase in the number of foreign programs. After reviewing the unique broadcasting history of Taiwan, this study examines exposure to and preference for foreign programs based on a nationwide survey. The findings demonstrate that, in addition to social status, historical and cultural backgrounds substantially affect individuals' choices of foreign programs.

From the supplier: The impact Japanese and American culture has had on television programing in Taiwan is examined, focusing on the history of Taiwan television and the social status of television viewers. Topics include the historical relationships among Taiwan, Japan, and the US; preferences Taiwanese have for Japanese or US programs; and frequency of viewing.

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Title: Japanese and U.S. Programs in Taiwan: New Patterns in Taiwanese Television.(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Kenichi Ishii
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1999
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: 43Issue: 3Page: 416

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Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile in contemporary cinema. This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the auterist mode, the nation-state argument and vestiges of the New Cinema.

Cinema Taiwan considers the complex problems of popularity, conflicts between transnational capital and local practice, non-fiction and independent filmmaking as emerging modes of address, and new possibilities of forging vibrant film cultures embedded in national (identity) politics, gender/sexuality and community activism. Insightful and challenging, the essays in this collection will attract attention to a globally significant field of cultural production and will appeal to readers from the areas of film studies, cultural studies and Chinese culture and society.

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In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland Chinese immigrants to the Taiwanese themselves. Two decades of democratization and the arrival of consumer culture have made the island a truly global space. Envisioning Taiwan sorts through these complexities, skillfully weaving together history and cultural analysis to give a picture of Taiwanese identity and a lesson on the usefulness and the limits of contemporary cultural theory.

Yip traces a distinctly Taiwanese sense of self vis-à-vis China, Japan, and the West through two of the island’s most important cultural movements: the hsiang-t’u (or “nativist”) literature of the 1960s and 1970s, and the Taiwanese New Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. At the heart of the book are close readings of the work of the hsiang-t’u writer Hwang Chun-ming and the New Cinema filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. Key figures in Taiwan’s assertion of a national identity separate and distinct from China, both artists portray in vibrant detail daily life on the island. Through Hwang’s and Hou’s work and their respective artistic movements, Yip explores “the imagining of a nation” on the local, national, and global levels. In the process, she exposes a perceptible shift away from traditional models of cultural authenticity toward a more fluid, postmodern hybridity—an evolution that reflects both Taiwan’s peculiar multicultural reality and broader trends in global culture. ... Read more

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This well-illustrated, in-depth study of the most celebrated directors and films from Taiwan and the development of Taiwanese film focuses on the extraordinarily rich work of four contemporary filmmakers-Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang. The authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition to create a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history.

Following the relaxation of government control of the film industry in the 1980s, Taiwan's directors sprung from relative obscurity to international acclaim. Yeh and Davis trace this development, analyzing Taiwanese film from the end of World War II to the present. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, and Taiwan cinema in the contexts of international cinema's aesthetics and business practices.

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Betzee
A wonderful book on a topic that had not been well covered, i.e., the history of New Taiwanese Cinema. Covered in detail are its origins as well as the motivations of different directors and how it all intertwined with Taiwan's political liberalization in the 1980s. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Quick Frozen Foods International, published by E.W. Williams Publications, Inc. on October 1, 1989. The length of the article is 1499 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: In wake of shrimp blight in Taiwan, is intensive farming still the way?
Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1989
Publisher: E.W. Williams Publications, Inc.
Volume: v31Issue: n2Page: p74(2)

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Despite differences in the political, social, and economic systems of Taiwan and mainland China, the process of modernization in both has challenged traditional cultural norms.Tonglin Lu examines how differences in cultural formation between Taiwan and China have influenced reactions to modernity and how cultural identity has taken different forms on both sides of the Taiwan straits.She illustrates how these differences in the experience of modernity are expressed through analysis of paradigmatic films produced in both countries, with a particular emphasis on their formal experiments. ... Read more