Taiwan Insight

Limits to high technology: Taiwan’s east coast railway accident

1 November 2018 Editor

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

31 October 2018 Editor

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)

30 October 2018 Editor

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)

29 October 2018 Editor

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?

26 October 2018 Editor

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

26 October 2018 Editor

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

20 October 2018 Editor

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

18 October 2018 Editor

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

The Need to Speak Out: Taiwan’s Contribution in International Forums

17 October 2018 Editor

Written Alan H. Yang, Jeremy Chiang & Sherry Liu Taiwan’s forum diplomacy has kicked into high gear in recent years, with non-governmental sectors playing an increasingly important

Coast Guard build-up: Taiwan’s approach to the South China Sea

16 October 2018 Editor

Written by Wu Shang-Su. Taipei’s expansion of its coast guard fleet with four large offshore patrol vessels (OPV) demonstrates its concerns about Beijing’s assertiveness and

Strategizing Taiwan’s International Forum Policy

15 October 2018 Editor

Written by Alan H. Yang, Jeremy Chiang and Sherry Liu. In the past few decades, Taiwan has experienced an extremely challenging diplomatic onslaught, which has seen its formal

What Tibet tells us about China’s intentions towards Taiwan

10 October 2018 Editor

Written by Christopher MacDonald. Directly across from the Potala Palace, in Lhasa’s main square, there stands a triumphal, 120-foot-high slab of concrete commemorating Tibet’s 1951

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