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
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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
The Poetics of Tsai Ming-liang
Written by Cecília Mello The films of Tsai Ming-liang have been helping to shape our world cinema landscape since the early 1990s. On one hand, they belong to what
Taiwan New Cinema, Post-New Cinema, and Wei Te-sheng
Written by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley Taiwan New Cinema (TNC) is a cinematic movement that emerged in the 1980s just as democracy was introduced to the island. Its impact cannot be overstated: TNC not only expanded cultural
Indie is the new mainstream? The conception of independent music in Taiwan
Written by Chen-yu Lin Other than being known as the production centre for Mandopop in its heyday, in recent years, Taiwan has also a burgeoning
Luo Dayou: A Cultural Icon and Inspiration in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China
Written by Eric Scheihagen Whenever Taiwanese popular music of the 1980s, Taiwanese singer-songwriters or indeed the history of Mandopop in Taiwan in general is being