Written by Mei-Chih Hu and Hsien-Chen Lo. In 2016, Taiwan’s government launched the New Southbound Policy aimed to establish long-term economic ties between Taiwan and
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Limits to high technology: Taiwan’s east coast railway accident
Written by Michael Reilly. On 21st October, a Puyuma express train of the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) came off the tracks near Suao in north
The Journey of Taiwan Cinema: from Taiwan New Cinema to post-New Cinema
Written by Daw-Ming Lee By the end of the 1970s Taiwan audience was antipathetic to the unimaginative remakes or copies of “national policy films,” martial arts
Walking Slowly: Style and motifs of Tsai Ming-liang’s film art (Part II)
Written by Terez Vincz The key figure of the second wave of Taiwanese New Cinema, Tsai Ming-liang’s The Walker (2012) consists of twenty-one shots recorded by a fixed camera. This article will
Walking Slowly: Style and motifs of Tsai Ming-liang’s film art (Part I)
Written by Terez Vincze “I think that our present age is probably the worst time of all to be alive… Living in today’s world is terrible, I’m always
Why Study Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema?
Written by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley Professor Chris Berry (King’s College London) and I have been co-organising a project, “Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema: Recovered and Restored”, since 2017. The
Stray Dogs: Watching Cinema Disappear
Written by Tiago de Luca With 10 feature-length films to his credit, Tsai is a central figure in what is now broadly referred to as
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