Film Qiong Yao films and Taiwan society May 15, 2019 0 Written by Xuelin Zhou. Image Credit: Cinema by Do u remember/Flickr, License CC BY-SA 2.0. Between 1965 and 1983, fifty feature films were produced in Taiwan…
China Ascertaining the Status of Taiwan from Treaties and the ROC Constitution October 17, 2017 6 Written by Chai Boon Kheng. The question of Taiwan presents one of the most elusive problems in international law. While treaty texts pertaining to Taiwan are…
China From Cairo to Chongqing: Global vs. Local Histories of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the PRC August 21, 2015 0 Written by Adam Cathcart and Wankun Li. Urged on by Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its arts, scholarship, and regional bureaucracies have gone…
China Chinese Propaganda in Historical Perspective: Five terms to consider May 11, 2015 2 Written by Timothy Cheek. In August 2013 Xi Jinping declared a propaganda war on independent political criticism on China’s internet, especially the popular domestic weibo microblogging…
Taiwan local elections Taiwan: A Great Choosing Day is Coming November 25, 2014 0 Written by John Keane. For democrats, made in Taiwan is a seductive brand with definite global appeal. ‘Through the promotion of its democratic ideals’, says…
Culture and Society Media War Over Shanghai July 22, 2013 2 Written by Peter Harmsen. For three months during the fall of 1937, hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Japanese soldiers clashed in a titanic battle…
Culture and Society Xikou, Zhejiang and Chiang Kai-shek September 24, 2012 1 by Jeremy Taylor. Over the summer, I had the good fortune to participate in a conference jointly organised by the History Department at Zhejiang University…