Television Histories in Asia

Television Histories in Asia
Author: Jinna Tay
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135008078

This book presents an analysis of television histories across India, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia and Bhutan. It offers a set of standard data on the history of television’s cultural, industrial and political structures in each specific national context, allowing for cross-regional comparative analysis. Each chapter presents a case study on a salient aspect of contemporary television culture of the nation in question, such as analyses of ideology in television content in Japan and Singapore, and transformations of industry structure vis-à-vis state versus market control in China and Taiwan. The book provides a comprehensive overview of TV histories in Asia as well as a survey of current issues and concerns in Asian television cultures and their social and political impact.

Television Across Asia

Television Across Asia
Author: Michael Keane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2003-10-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134392591

This book explores the trade in television program formats, which is a crucially important ingredient in the globalisation of culture, in Asia. It examines how much traffic there is in program formats, the principal direction of flow of such traffic, and the economic and cultural significance of this trade for the territories involved, and for the region as a whole. It shows how new technology, deregulation, privatisation and economic recession have greatly intensified competition between broadcasters in Asia, as in other parts of the world, and discusses how this in turn has multiplied the incidence of television format remakes, with some countries developing dedicated format companies, and others becoming net importers and adapters of formats.

Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin

Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin
Author: Chun-Yi Peng
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9811542228

This book explores how language ideologies have emerged for gangtaiqiang through a combination of indexical and ideological processes in televised media. Gangtaiqiang (Hong Kong-Taiwan accent), a socially recognizable form of mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin, has become a stereotype for many Chinese mainlanders who have little real-life interaction with Taiwanese people. Using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the author examines how Chinese millennials perceive gangtaiqiang by focusing on the following questions: 1) the role of televised media in the formation of language attitudes, and 2) how shifting gender ideologies are performed and embodied such attitudes. This book presents empirical evidence to argue that gangtaiqiang should, in fact, be conceptualized as a mediatized variety of Mandarin, rather than the actual speech of people in Hong Kong or Taiwan. The analyses in this book point to an emerging realignment among the Chinese towards gangtaiqiang, a variety traditionally associated with chic, urban television celebrities and young cosmopolitan types. In contrast to Beijing Mandarin, Taiwanese Mandarin is now perceived to be pretentious, babyish, and emasculated, mirroring the power dynamics between Taiwan and China.

A New Era in Democratic Taiwan

A New Era in Democratic Taiwan
Author: Jonathan Sullivan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2018-07-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351665928

In January 2016, Taiwan’s former authoritarian ruler, the KMT, the Nationalist Party of China, lost control of both the presidency and the legislature. Having led the democratization process in Taiwan during the 1980s, it maintained a winning coalition among big business, the public sector, green-collar workers and local factions. Until now. A New Era in Democratic Taiwan identifies past, present and future trajectories in party politics and state-society relations in Taiwan. Providing a comprehensive examination of public opinion data, it sheds light on significant changes in the composition of political attitudes among the electorate. Through theoretical and empirical analyses, this book also demonstrates the emergence of a ‘new’ Taiwanese identity during the transition to democracy and shows how a diffusion of interests in society has led to an opening for niche political organizations. The result, it argues, is a long-term challenge to the ruling parties. As the first book to evaluate Taiwan’s domestic and international circumstances after Tsai’s election in 2016, this book will be useful for students and scholars of Taiwan Studies and cross-Strait relations, as well as Asian politics more generally.

The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan's Media, 1896-2012

The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan's Media, 1896-2012
Author: Chien-Jung Hsu
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004227695

National identity has been an ongoing political issue in Taiwan since the late-1890s. The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan’s Media, 1896-2012 breaks new ground with the most comprehensive analysis of the development of Taiwan’s media and the construction of national identity in Taiwan’s media. Using a variety of media contents including newspapers, opposition magazines, broadcasting radio, news TV stations and the Internet as well as numerous interviews with journalists, senior media staffs and academics, Dr Hsu provides many original insights into the formation of national identity in Taiwan's media. Taiwan's media began to demonstrate a variety of new identities under democratization. Part of this change responded to market conditions as a majority of Taiwan's population stressed their Taiwan identity.

Economic Development Of Taiwan: Early Experiences And The Pacific Trade Triangle

Economic Development Of Taiwan: Early Experiences And The Pacific Trade Triangle
Author: Frank S T Hsiao
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814618527

Taiwan's economic growth since the 1970s has roots in its pre-war development and post-war formation of the Pacific trade triangle. By highlighting the historical perspective of the Japanese linkages and the geographic vantage point of Taiwan-Japan-USA trade triangle, Economic Development of Taiwan features a collection of papers by Frank S T Hsiao and Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao. Published mostly between 1989 and 2002, their analyses on Taiwan's pre-war and post-war early economic history debunk the myth of the country's post-war rags to riches story and revalue the myth of 'wise' government policy. Timely and accessible, this unique volume shows how early Taiwanese experiences of economic development can be valuable paradigms for emerging economies of Asian, African and Latin American countries in this age of globalization.

台灣光華雜誌2022年12月號中英文版

台灣光華雜誌2022年12月號中英文版
Author: 光華畫報雜誌社
Publisher: 光華畫報雜誌社
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022-12-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

一部叫好又叫座的影視作品,與該國人才培養、產業環境與法規,以及原創IP的取得,有著密不可分的關係。翻開2022年第57屆金鐘獎得獎作品,有時代劇的《茶金》、《斯卡羅》; 家庭喜劇的《俗女養成記2》;犯罪懸疑的《逆局》;還有奇幻類的《良辰吉時》及職人劇《火神的眼淚》,台灣戲劇多元化的發展,在近年來影音串流平台的推波助瀾下,有著不同於以往的活力。 本期《光華》封面故事,將著眼於本土編劇人才的養成、台灣影視政策的助力、台劇40年來的演進,以及目前廣受好評的影視製作⋯⋯等等,讓這饒富趣味的剖析,帶大家了解台灣戲劇產業的現在進行式。

Asian Cultural Flows

Asian Cultural Flows
Author: Nobuko Kawashima
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2018-10-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811001472

This book investigates economic, political, and cultural conditions that have led to transnational flows of culture in Asia. Coverage also looks at the consequences of an increasingly interconnected Asian regional culture as well as policy makers and cultural industries' response to it. The book features essays written by researchers from different countries in Asia and beyond with diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The volume also contains engaging examples and cases with comparative perspectives. The contributors provide readers with grounded analysis in the organizational and economic logics of Asian creative industries, national cultural policies that promote or hinder cultural flows, and the media convergence and online consumers' surging demand for Asianized cultural products. Such insights are of crucial importance for a better understanding of the dynamics of transnational cultural flows in contemporary Asia. In addition, the essays aim to “de-westernize” the study of cultural and creative industries, which draws predominantly on cases in the United States and Europe. The contributors focus instead on regional dynamics of the development of these industries. The popularity of J-Pop and K-Pop in East and Southeast Asia (and beyond) is now well known, but less is known about how this happened. This volume offers readers theoretical tools that will help them to make better sense of those exciting phenomena and other rising cultural flows within Asia and their relevance to the global cultural economy.

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan
Author: Gunter Schubert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131766969X

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan offers a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field. Each contribution summarises the major findings in the field and highlights long-term trends, recent observations and possible future developments in Taiwan. Written by an international team of experts, the chapters included in the volume form an accessible and fascinating insight into contemporary Taiwan. Up-to-date, interdisciplinary, and academically rigorous, the Handbook will be of interest to students, academics, policymakers and others in search of reliable information on Taiwanese politics, economics, culture and society.