Culture and Society The stadium as a site for mourning: Emotional labour and fandom at the match in East Java January 24, 2020 0 Image credit: World Prayer Assembly 2012 by JustVON!/ Flickr; licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Andy Fuller. Sports stadia are increasingly subject to what Matusitz…
Culture and Society Indigenous media in transformation: Languages and other factors in Taiwan September 21, 2019 0 Image credit: TITV and Alian Radio title on CTV Building 20180101 by Solomon203 /Creative Common, license CC BY-SA 4.0 Written by Chia Sui Crystal Sun What…
Culture and Society Teresa Teng: Mandopop icon, soldier’s sweetheart and Asian diva September 6, 2019 0 Written by Zuzana Shejbalová. Image credit: 邓丽君 Teresa Teng 鄧麗君 by hto2008/Flickr, license CC BY-NC 2.0 Teresa Teng, in Mandarin Deng Lijun 鄧麗君, was a Taiwanese singer…
Art New Waves of Contemporary Art at Taiwanese Temple Festivals: The Daxidaxi Project August 27, 2019 0 Written by Kuan-Wen Lin. Image Credit: Gods' Dance Night by Kuan-Wen Lin/Google Photos, License CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Daxidaxi (大溪大禧) project aims to reshape an…
Art Cultural Intermediaries and their Roles in Taiwan’s Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Relations August 26, 2019 0 Written by Chun-Ying Wei. Image credit: National Concert Hall with CKS Memorial Library by Marek Kubica/Flickr, license CC BY-SA 2.0 The definition of ‘cultural intermediaries’…
Culture and Society Cultural Policy in Deliberative Democracy August 26, 2019 0 Written by Chieh Hsiang Wu. Image credit: Cihu Memorial Sculpture Garden (Chiang Kai-shek) by Rutger van der Maar /Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 After years of…
Culture and Society The Youth Ambassadors and Taiwan’s Performative Cultural Diplomacy: “Some of the dancing, yeah, I don’t really understand [it]” August 24, 2019 1 Written by Jess Marinaccio. Image credit: 2018 Youth Ambassadors rehearsing for performance in Funafuti, Tuvalu by Jess Marinaccio. When I worked for the Tuvalu Embassy in…
Asia Cricketing diary: The 2019 World Cup July 1, 2019 0 Image Credit: 2019 Cricket World Cup by Trending Topics 2019/Flickr, Licence: Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Written by Anna Parkinson The 2019 International Cricket Council (ICC)…
China Feng Xiaogang’s New Year Celebration Films and the government-led commercialisation of the Chinese film industry March 8, 2019 0 Written by Qi Ai. The creation and development of Feng Xiaogang’s New Year Celebration Films (hesui pian, henceforth referred to as NYCFs) corresponds with the…
China The Future of Shanghai as an International and Cosmopolitan City of Culture July 9, 2018 0 Written by Rong Yueming. This year is the 40th anniversary of China’s opening up and economic reform. From skyscrapers in tight rows to crowded commercial…
