1.  Taiwan Soft Power

Taiwan failed to enter UK based Monocle's Soft Power Survey ranking lists of 2010 till 2016/2017,  Taiwan's soft power is behind Asian's "world top 20" nations , including Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, China, India, UAE, all of them entered top 20 list at least once.    The Monocle's Soft Power Survey ranks nations according to their culture, politics, business, diplomacy and education rather than their financial or military power.
Taiwan also failed to be listed in 2017's Soft Power 30 Study, compiled by PR company Portland Communication and University of Southern California.   The top 30 nations are 1  France  2 UK  3 USA  4 Germany  5  Canada   6 Japan  7  Swiss  8 Australia   9 Sweden  10  Holland  11 Denmark  12 Norway  13  Italy  14  Austria  15  Spain   16  Belgium  17 Finland  18 NZ   19 Ireland  20  Singapore   21 S. Korea   22  Portugal  23  Greece   24  Poland   25  China  26  Russia  27 Czech  28  Hungary   29  Brazil  30  Turkey.
The Liberty Times of Taiwan, 4-6-2016:  The government took the lead to plagiarize, and ignored copy-rights, Taiwan became "an island of Plagiarism".

¡¹  "Understand Taiwan in one minute" !  ¡¹  TAIWAN  in all aspects !!   ¡¹   review Taiwan    No.1 ranking on US Google  !

¡¹ Taiwan's cultural creativity  : artists―shortage of creativity & vivid imagination ! government―lacking of forward thinking ...

        ☉ The China Times,  headline news  at 12-24-2017:  The total value of Taiwan's cultural & creative production was far behind of that of Korea, Korea's value in publication is about 6 times larger than Taiwan's,  Film industry 6 times, TV 3.5 times, Advertising 3 times, Pop-music 6 times bigger than Taiwan's,  Taiwan lacks of updated related laws and policy ― no focus, no direction, no institute, original creativity is not encouraged, the industry field is divided, without integrated marketing......  ☉ The China Times 8-15-2017:   The output value of Taiwan's cultural & creative production in '12 - '13 declined 9.28%, in contrast, Taiwan's neighbor countries increased, China 14.27%, Malaysia, Philippines 8+%, Korea 0.65% ... Taiwan's cultural & creative industry even failed to create a "bubble", the reason is lacking of original creativity. / The China Times, 8-15-2017 
        ☉ The United Daily (1-10-2016): 3 major political parties' presidential candidates all ignore cultural policy and direction in their election debates. 
        ☉ The Liberty Times 4-6-2016:   The Liberty Times of Taiwan, 4-6-2016:  The government took the lead to  ignore copy-rights, Taiwan became "an island of Plagiarism".

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¡» Taiwan's soft power & cultural creativity ....   see below:

Tourism   Full analysis pls. click  Taiwan Tour&Travel

 "Formosa" means "a beautiful island", however, some media of both Taiwan and China (·s¶g¥ZNew Weekly) comment top point of interest in Taiwan is Taiwanese people itself. (an ambassador from S. America said so too)  

¡· World Economic Forum (WEF) 2017 <Travel and tourism competitiveness report> (released at 4-6-2017), Taiwan's most important indexes for promoting tourism, like "Attractiveness of Natural Assets" (parks, beaches, mountains, wildlife, etc) ranks world No.87, "Natural Resources" ranks No.55,   "Environmental Sustainability" ranks No.75 (No.69 in 2015), "Price Competitiveness" ranks No. 46, "Hotel Price Index" ranks No. 89 (82 in 2015), Taiwan got "n/a" on China's strong indexes such as "World heritage natural sites" as well as "World heritage cultural sites" (world top 5).   Taiwan has excellent scores on "Mobile Network coverage", "ATM", etc, but those least likely are main attractiveness to international sightseers that Taiwan needs most.   Taiwan is not be included in top 30 countries in <Travel and tourism competitiveness report> from 2011 till 2015, In 2015's report, Japan No.9, Singapore 11th, HK 13th,  China No.17 ; 2011 ranking - No.10 Singapore, no.12 HK, no. 13 Australia, no. 19 New Zealand, no.22 Japan, no.32 Korea, no.35 Malaysia.

United Daily, opinion, 12-30-2017 : Taiwan's foreign exchange earnings from tourism decreased 300 billion dollars.  To promote tourism just in number of tourists, Taiwan's new mission ¡§New Southbound Policy¡¨  gave up the national principle of mutual benefit and equity, led to illegal drug trafficking and neighbor countries' anger, and illegal collectivized-workings by foreign "visitors".    Taiwan's advertisements only focus on "cheat eats" by using some widely-known stars.   All these remind us a Chinese tourists slang "you will regret for your entire life if coming to Taiwan".

¡· <the China Times> 5-26-2015: "We should pay attention to a poll on the net in Hong Kong, it says Taiwan is the most disappointed place for the tour, because Taiwan's night market is the only place worth to visit." (<media commentary> scholar's view "±¼º£ªº¤å³Ð")

¡· UK's Economist Intelligence Unit ― ¡´ "Liveability Cities" report (Aug. 2015) ranks Taipei world No.60 (Taipei's Tourism leader ²§E®Ë 8-20-2015 expressed the ranking will go up in next year, hopefully), ¡´ Mercer's "Quality of Living" ranks Taipei world No. 83, and gives another city Tai-Chung world No.99, ¡´ Monocle's "Quality of Life" top list includes no Taipei.    ¡´ According to 2009  ECA int'l "the Best Place to Reside"¡ATaipei ranks No.57,  Asia top 3 are Singapore ¡BHK¡BTokyo( both world No.15)¡C¡´ 2010 rank :  Taipei No.55¡B Singapore is still global No. 1.

 ¡»  2015 Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report

http://reports.weforum.org/travel-and-tourism-competitiveness-report-2015

 ¡»  Country Brands Index 2014/2015

Taiwan's score :	Taiwan's score location - "Countries" (left lower place)
Taiwan locates in "Countries" category, a lowest area  ―   having below average perceptions in both the Status and Experience dimensions. Critera : ¡·tourism / Value for money, Range of attractions, Resort & lodging options, Would like to visit for a vacation, Food ; ¡·HERITAGE & CULTURE / Historical points of interest, Heritage, art & culture, Natural beauty; etc. ¡@	¡·¡§Country brands¡¨ ¡V Countries that have above average perceptions across both the Status and Experience dimensions and have measurable competitive advantages over their peers as a result. ¡· ¡§Experience countries¡¨ ¡V Countries whose perception strength is biased towards dimensions relating to Heritage & Culture, Tourism and Made In. ¡· ¡§Status countries¡¨ ¡V Countries whose perception strength is biased towards attributes relating to Value System, Quality Of Life and Business Potential. http://www.futurebrand.com/news/futurebrand-launches-the-country-brand-index-2014-15
¡· top 20 countries: Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Norway, United States, Australia, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Finland,Singapore, Iceland, Netherlands, France, Italy, United Arab Emirates, South Korea. ¡· top 20 most influential cities:  NY, London, Beijing, Washington, Moscow, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Shanghai, Dubai,  HK, Singapore, New Delhi, SaoPaulo, Rio De Janeiro, LA, Rome, Toronto, Seoul, Mumbai ¡@

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Visual Communication

Taiwan government logo, UN for Taiwan logo, state-run enterprises logo, Taiwan's universities annual event logo ......  etc,  suspiciously are cheap-copy works.  Similar visual designs're everywhere in Taiwan.  Taipei is going to hold a  sort of "City of Design" international event soon ??

Some examples are listed as below:

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logo of Taiwan's government	world logo appeared earlier	world logo appeared earlier	logo of Taiwan's government	Asian (Korea) metro's logo (appeared earlier)	design by Taiwan's best university

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ps:  Both use same ideas ― "sharp knife tree, dangerous gear-wheel lawn"   
       Pic. at right side is an ad. for <Creative Ideas Exhibition of Taiwan Cultural Industry, Taiwan>, Eslite bookstore ( Taiwan's pride, a cultural landmark of Taiwan)

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      1. Luc Besson's movie "Lucy"  shooting in Taiwan particularly includes Din Tai Fung ―  which is not only the most famous Taiwanese restaurant but also even a landmark of Taiwan, however,             

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     2.  According to CNN (2-29-2016) "Asia's 50 Best Restaurants" , only two Taiwanese restaurants are selected (leMout Taichung (No.30) and Raw Taipei (No.46)), which was raked No. 9 in Asia, next to Singapore (10 restaurants selected )¡BHong Kong(9)¡BJapan(8)¡BThailand(4, but Gaggan got best award)¡BChina(3)¡BKorea¡BIndia¡BSri Lanka¡F Besides, only one Taiwanese restaurant selected serves Taiwanese food. (http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/29/foodanddrink/asia-best-restaurant-2016/index.html)  CNN (1-4-2017) "Best New Restaurants" included Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia Bali, Arab Dubai, ... but not any Taiwan's restaurants. 
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      3.  According to The World's Best Restaurants (2017) , Taiwan is not included in the list, Thailand got No.7, Singapore No.14, Japan 18th, HK 24th, Shanghai 41th.  In sub-total, 5 Japanese , 4 Chinese, 3 Singapore, 2 Thailand, 1 Korean, 1 India restaurant(s) entered top 100.     According to The World's Best Restaurants (2016) , Taiwan is not included in the list .    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_50_Best_Restaurants   http://www.theworlds50best.com/list/1-50-winners/
        

      4.   Miele Guide (2012) :  No any Taiwanese restaurant is included in top 20 Asian restaurants list.

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¡» Food - night markets

     Best night-market-food in Taiwan : oyster omelet (introduced by Discovery channel of USA) ―  it is most typical Taiwanese food( street snack everywhere in night markets), but not exquisite & elaborated food.  a TV program expressed many oyster omelets use peanut (fatal aflatoxin was usually found in this kind of food) powder and some unknown ingredients/addictives.    intro. to Taiwan cuisines

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     ¡´  5 star hotel restaurants scandals -  A book (Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taiwan Veterans General Hospital's physician Jiang So-San¦¿¦u¤sM.D.'s "­¹¦b¦w¤ß" (10-2014)) said many 5 star hotel restaurants don't wash vegetables ...  some 5 star hotels made sashimi raw fish slices by using fresh-water fishes, this may increase the probability to get cancer  (for details ¥xÆWÀ\ÆU  or  ¥xÆW¬ü­¹Taiwan Night Markets ) ; Epoch Times (¤j¬ö¤¸, 3-14-2017):Okura Prestige Tpe (¤j­Ü¤[©M, a 5 star hotel) sold expired frozen shrimps, molded taro (vegetable ¨¡) etc;   SETN news ( ¤T¥ß·s»D 5-16-2016): Some 5 star hotels in northern Taiwan sold black-hearted expired seafoods ;  LTN (5-17-2016): 5 star hotels Ambassador and Howard (°ê»«¡BºÖµØ) clarified this news;   Apple Daily (Ä«ªG¤é³ø 6-7-2016): Sheraton (³ß¨Óµn) 's white shrimps contained bleaching agent (º}¥Õ¾¯)¡A4 times higher than the legal standard¡ARanina (Spanner crabs ¦°ÃÉ) contained heavy medal Cadmium poisoning (­«ª÷ÄÝ镉) 14% higher than the standard...;  Apple Daily (Ä«ªG¤é³ø 7-2-'13): Taiwan's tourist hotels' food ingredients expired 2 years,  only 3 out of 21 hotels passed the security check and sanitary examination etc conducting by Taiwan Administration, e.g., Shangri-La's (tnn) did not separate their cutting tools for cooked foods and raw foods;     FTV news, 5-18-2017: 13 ingredients / materials expired in a 5 star hotel in Taiwan;  CTI TV news (5-17-2017, 19:33): What can we eat in Taiwan? people are uneasy for food here...   

    ¡´  Chang Gung Mem. Hospital professor Yin M.D. (®ï©v®ü, Doctor, Univ. of London ): Minimize the times of dining out to protect your health ! ( ref. to book <­¹«~¤£¦w¥þªº¦~¥N¦p¦ó¦Û«O>("how to survive in this bad food-security time", April 2016)) 

     ¡´  Dean of National Taiwan Normal University - graduate school of Chemistry,  Dr. Gaston J. C. Wu (¤Æ¾Ç©Òªø§d®a¸Û±Ð±Â)'s book <Those black-heart products toxin-experts never buy ("¬rª«±M®aµ´¤£¶Rªº¶Â¤ß°Ó«~")> (Nov. 2013): Most of the time I eat at home, and has never dined out in street-side shops / small-eat markets (¸ôÃäÅu), because those small-eat shops usually/always do not meet the minimum standards of cleanliness. 

     ¡´  Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taiwan Veterans General Hospital's physician Jiang So-San M.D. : Most 5 star hotel restaurants in Taiwan don't wash the vegetables ...  ref. to the book "­¹¦b¦w¤ß" .

      ¡´   Taiwan's food  safety scandals  :  poisonous, black hearted food in Taiwan for 20-30 years, click for details  
     Major world media like The New York Times and The Economist (11.29.2014) comment a series of food safety scandals is one of few main factors causing the KMT, Taiwan's ruling party, has suffered one of its worst electoral defeats since Chiang Kai-shek and his forces fled to the island at the end of Chinese civil war in 1949.

Advertisement     a long time loser

My article in <the United Daily News> (Oct. 2007) mentions Taiwan's ad. creativity has been lousy for a long time,  In the past 10 years, Taiwan is about in the last place in Cannes Ad. festival, world best ad. contest (Even Vietnam, Philippines, red China are bit better than Taiwan).  Till early of 2017, Taiwan still only has small number of winnings in int'l ads & creativity contests. 

 Take Taiwan's national ads : "UN for Taiwan" (Taiwan to join the UN ) , as an example :

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As for Taiwan's business ads. or TV commercials obtaining winning records in int'l ad. festivals, are not all so original,..... or/and not very sharp-witty, e.g., making love with an insect symbolizes insecure sex, or stick out (very out) the tongue to make a funny face, ...... are student-level ideas.

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Animation (comment Taiwan's best awards in world's best contests)

Tamkang Univ.'s paper concludes Taiwan animation's 1st problem is "short of creativity".    Very few Taiwan's researches 're working on this subject - Creativity.  (Taiwan  animation currently is only expertise at drawing tech.)

¡·   comment Taiwan's international winning animation films in 2011.

More clever Picasso-inspired  ideas have already been developed years ago, please click to see !

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Music/songs

An essay <China Tames Rebellious Side of Rock "n" Roll> in <New York Times>, likened today's Red Chinese pop music culture to the politically enforced conformity  of the Cultural Revolution, the core of songs is "have fun", culture has become an empty vessel, there are few hints of angst, alienation , or any but the mildest expression of teenage rebellion.

Taiwan's pop music was tamed by political pressure in the past, the "opposition culture" in Taiwan's music field was almost eliminated.

Today's music is in a money-oriented environment.

Very few people notes an usual case :  two most popular singers, Wu-bai and S.H.E. (hottest in China too) sing 2 same-name songs, namely all the same as Chinese translation of "Brave New World" - a classic literature regarding man-handled white-terror tyranny.   S.H.E. seems so happy and exciting while singing this song.

In contrast, Apple Computer's famous commercial <1984> comes from another white-terror literature  "1984" written by Orwellian.   Ad. research papers mention one reason it succeeds ( the most remarkable US ad campaign, although aired only once ) is that people are curious about the mystery/puzzle -  a tyranny in a free country.

Certainly, the <1984> despises human-controlled tyranny.

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Arts

Dec. 8, 2012 : To everyone's surprise, 2 out of 3 artists in Taiwan government's selection for participating Italia Venice Biennale are foreigners !  This means Taiwan does not have talented artists??

Many Asian countries have great ambition to do city-marketing by arts expo.,  there're 8 arts biennales will be taken place in Sept. 2008.

Taiwan is one of them -   <Asia Arts Biennale > was held till Feb. 2008.

Taiwan's largest news introduced (with a large-sized picture) an expo.  artwork  -  world brand's logos are spread on human bodies, this work seems to symbolize "Globalizing" phenomenon.

However, the idea "logo body" already appeared a number of times in,  i.e., <Your Logo Here, photos from S. Cal. 2004-2006>, and some logo tattoo works .......

More sharp-witty and more difficult ideas appeared in cartooning field at least 13 years ago, i.e., Japanese Yomiuri international cartoon contest.

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Architecture    no aesthetical & creative astonishment

below are Taiwan's "shop-front" or "Face-valued" buildings :

An article by VIP professor in Taiwan major newspaper (2002) asserted  :  " Copy is humanism spirits" ¡B " How can we enjoy & bear those original designed  architecture by Taiwanese !? "

ps1:  Taiwan's Pavilion at Shanghai's World Expo. (China)  ―   an ordinary architecture, far worse than UK's Pavilion (based upon the same construction cost and land-space).

ps2:  another contrast 

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Film/movie

¡´ Taiwan's film industry got 3 major troubles :

(1)  Taiwan likes to 'create'  some abstract/obscure symbols attracting very very few people.  Using Eastern exotic flavor was another very useful strategy for attending world film contest.   Shortage of  witty & creative idea led to Taiwan film industry's death.

         ¡ó  Taiwan's movies fail to create better humour like "Lost in Beijing" ( red Chinese film banned by CHN gov.) .
         ¡ó   Taiwan's all-time grossing film, <Cape No.7>, is not a stylish witty comedy (some world best media positioned this film as comedy), but attracts lots of Taiwanese (particularly southern Taiwanese) by some simple ideas( i.e., sort of slapstick) and Taiwanese grass-roots culture elements.  
         ¡ó  Taiwan's <You are the Apple of My Eye> of 2011 is very popular in TW, HK and Chn, but most of it's boyish humors are not witty & stylish, this film attracts audiences by stoking collective memory of their youngsters age.
PS: In 2012, Taiwan's films only won 2 awards in Taiwan's Golden Horse film festival (China and HK won most awards), which is the worst in latest 20 years.   In 2014, Taiwan was bit better, won 3 out of 23 awards in total.

(2)   Taiwan government used to do political propaganda/comm. by using movies,  till now days Taiwan's government still thinks highly of things helpful to win political elections, besides, Taiwan government's movie policy already gave up to WTO, U.S., Hollywood.

(3)  Taiwanese spent little on arts, and taste not too good - many people prefer real things, like money.

¡´ TV soap opera series : Taiwan's TV opera series focus on "charming leading-actors/actress" (not giving importance to the content) to attract audiences, so Korean, Japanese, red Chinese TV series are better & more popular.   United Daily (12-28-2014): Taiwan's TV opera are not original.  UDN (critique C2, 6-21-2015): Taiwan's drama crisis/ lacking of budge, passion, actor/actress.
¡´ Variety show/program of assorted entertainment: this sort of shows were very popular and was the reason or excuse that Taiwanese people don't like going to theater watching movies, but till 2013, those stuffs were not fresh enough and already behind China's, some paper even questioned Taiwan's variety show/program of assorted entertainment : "Are they incurable?" (4/7/'13 UND).  United Daily (12-26-2014):  Taiwan needs creativity.  Apple Daily (8-31-2015) : Taiwan's entertainment show from bad to worse, the gap between Taiwan and China becomes bigger, Taiwan's TV field in risk !

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Cartooning

Recently Taiwanese cartoon artists have shown little talents on Taiwan International Cartoon Contest sponsored by Taiwanese government,

Almost all juries withdrawn from <Courage World Cartoon Contest> (ranking world No. 1 for some years) , due to "seems political" reasons .   

Both animation and cartooning need creativity, but at present Taiwan doesn't have that environment.   

Taiwan youngsters like "Kuso" stuffs, however, formula/routine mind is not good enough for cartoon creativity.  

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ps: Taiwan has (only a few) world class cartoonists.

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Product Design

(1 )  Taiwan's best-selling cultural creativity :

Recently, Taiwan's best-selling & widely known product , "Chinese Fortune(or Rich) God figure toy", is based on Taiwanese superstition (Apple Daily: 88%of college students believe ghost -  ps2  ), and eagerness for money,

Taiwan's figure-toy design just simplified Chinese Gods' complicated appearance to little cute mascot, in contrast, int'l designs for gods are more witty, i.e.,

  
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( 2 )  best-selling cultural products for int'l tourists

A major design periodical comments:  <National Palace Museum>'s rich treasures is the key to success of Taiwan's Cultural & Creative Industry.

However, <NPM> seems to look down upon the talent of Taiwanese designers.

<NPM> should designs Chinese treasures, and makes witty, humorous artworks  to represent Taiwan's modern arts.   Western tourists suppose like to buy souvenir with Chinese culture & flavor created by ourselves.    "Mercenaries" cannot represent Taiwan to Olympics.

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ps: "tech. oriented" product design like <idea> contest, <if> contest is not discussed in here

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Medical

¡´ Taiwan only ranks world 45th position in Lancet's Healthcare Access and Quality Index released in 2017 (based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990¡V2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study   2015),  some chronic disease items got very low or failure scores, e.g.,   Leukemia score 49,  Kidney disease 50, Gallbladder & biliary 57, Hypertensive Heart Disease 60,   diabetes mellitus 58, etc.  http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(17)30818-8.pdf
¡´ United Daily News (5-30-2017): The biggest problem of Taiwan's medical care is too short diagnostic time, without a completed examination in most cases, usually, patients are already in serious condition when symptom became clear. / Dr. Huang D.F., president of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center
¡´ FTV (4-16-2017, ¥Áµø) comments medical Doctors' social status is lower than before.   Taiwan's current social value system is rapidly changing the culture in medical circle.    Dean of NTU medical school (±i¤W²E) advised that physicians
always keep in mind a love-based, "patient-centered", and humanistic-care thinking      
¡´ The book "Exposing the truth of modern medical circle in Taiwan" ("»~¶E»~Âå", published by the China Times, 2012; by Xu Da-Fu  ) criticizes : Taiwan's hospitals focus on profit/benefit and ignore patients' rights , The whole medical circle already went the wrong route...

¡· Surgery / Taiwan's excellent surgeons perform many operations simultaneously - happened quite often in Taiwan...
¡· Medicines /  the quality of prescription medicines in Taiwan is from bad to worse...
¡· Bribery / the institution needed to be paid bribery most is judiciary system, second is Taiwan's medical and health services ...
¡· full text pls. ref. to   Taiwan's Hospitals and physicians (M.D.s)

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Women's rights

¡´  The US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices , released at 3-3-2017 (new report of 4-20-2018 is about same) :   Violence & discrimination against women is one of Taiwanese principal human rights problems for years.   In 2015, the number of reporting for rape or sexual assault  is only 850 less than that in previous year.      Apple Daily news (12. 25. '14) reported that the percentage of  those Taiwanese male aged above 20 visiting porn business (2.33 million men per yr. ) ranked world No.1.  The annual value of production of Taiwan's sex industry's is at least USD 200 million.  Prostitution is violence against women / ref to <Prostitution : violence with no name>, "Prostitution et Societe", 2010, "Int'l Day for the Elimination of Violence against women", 11-25-2016 France.   Taiwan government is the main criminal to harm women's rights in large scale.

¡´   The US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices , released at 3-3-2017:   spousal rape, and domestic violence. Many victims did not report the crime for fear of social stigmatization, and various nongovernmental organization (NGO) and academic studies estimated that the total number of sexual assaults was seven to 10 times the number reported to police.  Women were promoted less frequently, occupied fewer management positions,...

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Sports/Athletics

¡´  In 2016 Rio Olympics medal tally statistics, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) only got 1 gold, 2 bronze, ranks world No. 50, compare to previous years, 5 medals in 2000, 2004, 4 medals in 2008, 2 medals in 2012¡FOther Asian nations -  China ranks No.3, Japan No.6,  Korea No. 8,  Australia No 10,  N.Z. No.19,  Iran  25, North Korea No. 34, Thailand No. 35, Indonesia No. 46, Vietnam No.48, Taiwan No. 50

¡´  Taiwan just held 2 world scaled athletic events that have ever seen in Taiwan's history :

World Games Kaohsiung Taiwan &  Deaflympics Taipei : comments & critiques  click to see how they showed Taiwan's culture and creativity.

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Summary

(1) Not easy to upgrade "Made in Taiwan" to "Create in Taiwan",  since Taiwan has very few experts in creativity. (government does not think highly of them)

(2) Most Taiwanese professors (PhD) do theoretical studies, don't have talent (some even are not interested ) on witty creativity/design. 

(3) Ph.D usually is required for college teacher position, it's one criterion for Taiwan government to evaluate all schools.  Un-talented teachers can't train students to be talented.

(4) Taiwan's society and people don't think important of arts, culture, creativity, etc.  

(5) Taiwan government official in univ. paper said Taiwan doesn't have that kind of environment for creativity.  
     Creativity needs freedom,  democracy, and people's independent personality,  government officers don't like creativity, which means extra risk.

(6) Taiwan should fight "diamond cut diamond" with western nations in major fields , instead of going backdoor (or side-door) by exotic local culture, Eastern mysterious flavor, obscure codes, etc.

(7) Taiwan government used to give less budget to cultural field, and use e.g., movie as propaganda/comm. tool.   Taiwan needs int'l friends, but uncreative films won't attract enough audiences.

(8) Taiwanese government kicks cultural creativity to the corner in most time, in that creativity seems no use for political election, but requires extra efforts on social controls/adm.

(9)  Taiwan's government prefers to use his own men.

(10) Taiwanese youngsters love heavy slapstick ¡Bsilly "Kuso" stuffs ("young-designers" policy is wrong).
     Taiwanese adults' imaginative power  is bounded, thinking in a roundabout/evasive way,  their tastes are lousy .......  pls. see 2 examples as below :

¡@	artworks introduced by Taiwan's largest news:	western artwork earlier
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	Merging Mao's photo  &  Tian-an-men Square of Beijing with "Miki mouse" (to symbolize Red China's westernization  )	Morphing Mao with "Miki mouse" (to symbolize China's westernization  )
¡@		is Biro Mihaly: A haboru borzalmai ellen, Plakat Budapest, Europe, at 1912. http://www.hnm.hu/utils/Gallery.php?ItemID=213&PicNum=9
	fighter planes pass Tian-an-men Square, and drop human-beings as bombs ps: this painting price 10 times from 2005 to 2008 ¡@	using youngsters as artillery bullets (appeared earlier)

to be continued, if necessary

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Taiwan needs medicine, not cosmetic

ps2:  Other researches : finger-pointing moon results in that ear will be cut (28.3%) , chopstick knock bowl results in being a beggar (22.3%),  swimming in July (Lunar) results in un-luck (64.7%), whistling after sunset will encounter ghost (37%), pregnant woman using scissors will give birth to an abnormal baby(32%)  - reported by <Apple Daily>5.29.2005  (largest and best news evaluated by university) 

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    2.  Taiwan's hard power

     ¡» The New York times,  11-4-2017: China now has 800,000 active combat troops in its ground forces, compared with 130,000 in Taiwan; its budget last year was $144 billion, compared with Taiwan¡¦s $10 billion,... countries that might sell it the most sophisticated weaponry are increasingly reluctant to do so for fear of provoking China,...The Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 commits the United States to defend the island¡¦s sovereignty, providing ¡§such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary¡¨ ... US latest arms sales " short of the major systems that could give Taiwan a real edge."...

          The Pentagon report warned:  To defend itself, Taiwan has relied on geography ¡X a mountainous main island 80 miles across a windswept strait ¡X and the support of the United States.     However, China¡¦s military modernization has ¡§eroded or negated many of Taiwan¡¦s historical advantages¡¨ in deterring a potential attack,...  an intervention (by the US) now would confront a more potent Chinese military.

    ¡»  Eastern Taiwan's anti-aircraft military force needs to be improved soon, but in recent years, Taiwan has been limited to international reality and financial difficulties, therefore focused on main forces' (F16, IDF/F-CK-1, etc) functional improvement, instead of developing or purchasing new-generation jet fighters, Taiwan looks forward to having F35B, but it may take more than 10 years in the queue.  / brief - The Liberty Times, 2-5-2017.

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     ¡»  New York times,  5-18-2017:   Beijing¡¦s belligerence presents an existential threat to Taiwan, Chinese leaders have long vowed to take Taiwan by force if they deem necessary  ...  For years, the political establishment in Taipei has delegated responsibility for responding to Beijing to the United States.  Taiwan's leaders have gutted the military and continued to base defense planning on the assumption that the United States would always come to the rescue.  Policies put forward by the Kuomintang and the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party have left the military understaffed and in a state of low morale... Taiwan's active force down to under 200,000 (the exact number is classified). The nearly two million reservists exist in name only...   Taiwan¡¦s defense policies are largely a result of deep distrust between the military and politicians. The military has struggled with wide-range scandals/

 /  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/opinion    (ps: China's Baidu, 10-15-2017: Taiwanese reservists 3 million in total )

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Taiwan Strait Military Balance in 2015, Naval Forces
	China	China	Taiwan
	Total	East and South Sea Fleets	Total
Aircraft Carriers	1	0	0
Destroyers	23	16	4
Frigates	52	40	22
Corvettes	23	14	1
Tank Landing Ships/ Amphibious Transport Dock	30	28	14
Medium Landing Ships	22	16	0
Diesel Attack Submarines	57	38	4
Nuclear Attack Submarines	5	2	0
Ballistic Missile Submarines	4	4	0
Coastal Patrol (Missile)	86	68	45

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Taiwan Strait Military Balance in 2015, Air Forces
	China	China	Taiwan
	Total	Within range of Taiwan	Total ¡@
Fighters	1,700	130	384
Bombers/Attack	400	200	0
Transport	475	150	19
Special Mission Aircraft	115	75	25

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Taiwan Strait Military Balance in 2015, Ground Forces

	China	China	Taiwan
	Total	Taiwan Strait Area	Total
Personnel (Active)	1.25 million	400,000	130,000
Group Armies/Army Corps	18	8	3
Infantry Divisions	12	4	0
Infantry Brigades	23	7	5
Mechanized Infantry Divisions	7	4	0
Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Divisions	2	2	0
Mechanized Infantry Brigades	25	8	3
Armor Divisions	1	0	0
Armor Brigades	17	7	4
Amphibious Armor Brigades	1	1	0
Army Aviation Brigades and Regiments	11	6	3
Artillery Brigades	22	9	5
Airborne Divisions	3	3	0
Marine Brigades	2	2	2
Tanks	7,000	2,800	1,100
Artillery Pieces	8,000	3,900	1,600

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¡´ Economist (special edition 2017): Taiwan will turn into a tiger again.   ¡´Taiwan declared no other air forces are allowed to show their muscle in Taiwan air space/ Apple Daily,  5-30-2016,...
     CTV evening news11-27-2016, United Daily News 11-30-2016: China's military aircraft-fighters (much stronger than TW air force) flied past around Taiwan and passed through 1st Island Chain, Taiwan air force did not intercept them. 

¡´ Taiwan lacks key-tech to make a large bus / the China Times, 3-29-2017

¡´ Taiwan president beset by low approval rate because of weakness against foreign countries, even including Philippines, a backward country dared to hurt Taiwan, not to mention military strong ones, China, Japan, etc.  ref. to Forbes, 5-21-2013.

¡´ Taiwan politics belongs to corporations (not the people) and is controlled by the political parties.   <Foerign Policy> 2015.

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Other Soft Power
As for other items of Taiwan's soft power, according to Reporters without Borders (RSF), Taiwan's press freedom (speech freedom) ranks No. 45 (always behind No. 45 since 2008), Taiwan's human rights, judicial system, high-ranking officials' corruption, women's rights, abuses of international/foreign workers, death penalty ( capital punishment ) etc need to be improved.    

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Brief of Taiwan:

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has identified that Taiwan (the Republic of China ) as part of its territory and its most important core interest, since the Kuomintang (Nationalists) government retreated to the island in 1949 following defeat in the Chinese civil war.  China has vowed to reunite this "breakaway province" by force if necessary, and has steadily increased pressure on Taiwan.   Under China's political development and strengthening its trade ties to our allies, Taiwan is diplomatically isolated, has only 20 formal relation allies till 2017, most of them are little, unknown countries, more may be in trouble any time.  On the other hand, China took the strategy " Allowance of economic benefits to Taiwan"("Åý§Q", such as encouraging tourists to Taiwan) so that Taiwanese people may have higher tendency toward unification with China,  in recent years, China became Taiwan's leading trading partner.   Taiwanese understood this interdependence is unavoidable, but over-dependence is risky.   Le Monde diplomatic of France, Mai '16, reported the economies of both sides were complementary, now compete each other. (Mais les économies des deux rives, qui étaient complémentaires, entrent désormais en concurrence. Les entreprises taïwanaises sont progressivement exclues de la mise en place d¡¦une chaîne de production et d¡¦approvisionnement chinoise ... )   

Taiwan's the 7th largest economy in Asia.   Latest Global Wealth Report (Credit Suisse, Nov., 2017) shows Taiwan's mean wealth per adult, at USD 188,081, is close to that of W. Euro., (UK USD 278,038, France USD 263,399).   Taiwan was one of the world's top producers of computer technology, relying upon importation of key components and advanced technology from the US and Japan,  Taiwan's high-tech sector is falling behind for lacking of key tech. and its low pay to attract university-educated talent. (Taiwan lacks key tech. to make a large bus / CTN , 3-29-2017)   Taiwan's GDP per capita retreated successively in recent years.   In contrast, China's GDP in 2016 is about 23 times the number of Taiwan's.   Taiwan's economic experts warned that Taiwan will fall into ¡§middle-income¡¨ limbo (15-30 countries will catch up with it) in the next 10 years if it fails to deal with ¡§three evil hands¡¨, the law, environmental assessments, and Taiwan-China relations.  The United Daily, 11-12-2017, mentioned the routine pattern "USA and China jointly control Taiwan"('¬ü¤¤¦@ºÞ') is running.

The United States,  Taiwan's most important protector, takes the policy "strategic ambiguity" ――  ¡§acknowledges¡¨ there is one China and Taiwan is part of China, but has never officially ¡§recognized¡¨ Taiwan as part of China.  The US Congress passed a law ("Taiwan Relations Act") to commit the US to defend Taiwan's sovereignty, and provide necessary 'defensive' services.   Many countries seem welcome this ambiguity.   Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, Opinion, 6-22-2017 stated the US is the key to keep the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait ("¦Ì国は¥x湾の¨¾½Ã¤O±j¤Æを担っており¡B¥x湾®ü峡の¥­©Mと¦w©wのカギを´¤る"¡C).    Taiwan's leaders made an assumption that American will always come to protect this island, and a core policy to resist Chinese PLA for 2 weeks.   But, the New York Times at 11-4-2017 pointed out that Taiwan¡¦s historical advantages (geography and the US support)  in deterring a potential attack¡¨ has been ¡§eroded or negated¡¨ in that Chinese military is "more potent".   Washington Post at 1-5-2018 reported many senior officials regarded Taiwan as a "roadblock to Washington¡¦s smooth relations with China" or "the turd in the punchbowl".    China's Global Times at 1-10-2018 stated "many forces" in the US are still supporting Taiwan as a "leverage against China".   Taiwan's Apple Daily, opinion, at 12-22-2017 warned Taiwan should give up the illusion (or dream) that the US military would come to rescue once needed.    Till Jan. of 2018, the Chinese military has conducted a series of provocative, aggressive operations, e.g., "patrol circling" passing through 1st island chain and an aircraft carrier traversed Taiwanese 'territory' (Taiwan Strait median line), to test the waters, or prepare for an eventual future attack against Taiwan.   Taiwan National Security Survey conducted by Duke University and NCCU of Taiwan found that once China-Taiwan war happens, more than 60% Taiwanese yield or give up & run away (The China Times, 4-21-2018, Opinion).

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The ROC on Taiwan, has its own constitution, independently elected president and military forces, However, Taiwan's image was tarnished for having benefits by any means, and having principal human rights problems, including:

¡´  Exploitation of  foreign workers,  official corruption,  some media self-censorship with regard to China, vote buying, etc (USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, March 3, 2017).

¡´  Taiwan was already reduced to be a 'kingdom' of producing narcotic drugs. (United Daily, headline news, 11-2-2017)   Philippine President Duterte ... blaming Taiwan-based organised crime behind all this drug traffic... for using his country as a shipping hub. (Reuters, 9-27-2017, The Straits Times, 9-29-2017)   Duterte: Triad supplying illegal drugs to PH is based in Taiwan, not China (inquirer.net, 9-26-2017).    Taiwan is scandalous for being a major drug transit center & a major drug exporting country, part of Taiwanese government including Judicial sys. refused to improve this issue. (UDN Opinion, 11-6-2017, The China Times, head-page & focus, 4-4-2017, The Liberty Times, 5-12-2017) 

¡´  Taiwan politics belongs to corporations (not the people) and is controlled by the political parties (Foreign Policy, 2015).  Now it seems hard to keep Taiwan's skin-deep democracy ... the people's "livelihood" was sacrificed for politics ... (United Daily News, Opinion, 3-7-2017 )

¡´  Taiwan is notorious for its fraud crimes all over the world (CTV evening news, 12-14-2017,  EBC TV, 4-9-2017,  UDN opinion, 12-24-2017).  Taiwan largely sees these telecom frauds/phone scammers as an asset rather than liability...  (quora, 4-16-2016).   It's not easy for Taiwan to clean its bad name of 'fraud-crime empire' because "Rome is not built in one day".  (Asia Association of Police Studies, secretary general, China Times, 11-7-2017) 

¡´  <The Diplomat> (4-14-2016) :  Taiwan's illegal fishing is 'out of control', GreenPeace criticized Taiwan gov. for knowing this issue but does little -  EU warned since 2015 Taiwan with a yellow card for illegal fishing, Taiwan has not improved this good enough, some small countries in Southern Asia did better than Taiwan.

¡´  Taiwan's prosecutors admit usually following order to conclude legal cases.  ( The United Daily,  06-18-2016, head page news)   Taiwan's justice ministry was insufficiently independent, public trust on Taiwan's judiciary system keeps falling down (USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, 2016-2018, all media of Taiwan, 2015 ~ 2017).    Taiwan's public voice with a heavy heart  : The prosecutors should abide by the law too... don't be a political tool. (United Daily, opinion column, 12-16-2017) 

¡´ Taiwan is far behind to legislate against torture and other cruel.  (ref. to Apple Daily, headline, 12-9-2017)  Taiwan's opposition party vice presidential candidate, NTU professor Lin Ruey-Shiung, was subject to electromagnetic wave attacks (French AFP ,Dec. 1, 2011 , Thailand's Bangkok Post,  Dec. 3, 2011, Yahoo UK & Ireland, etc. ), Taiwan gov. denied this. 

¡´ State violence and white terror (product of state violence) return in Taiwan (United Daily, opinion, 12-21-2017, 12-27-2017).     Taiwan's Facebook "Green terror" suppressed free expression...... (Wikipedia 2017, The China Times, public opinion, 11-18-2017)

¡´ Taiwan is dishonest and 'cruel' ― trying to hide, block, delay public-health news, e.g., poisoned eggs, PCV virus vaccine, and Bird-flu more than one time (1-2-2018 UDN udn.com/news/story/7266/2908720,  2012 BBC news :  www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese_news/2012/03/120304_taiwan_birdflu_investigate) ,  not to mention big issues.

¡´ Taiwan failed to solve food-safety issue, professors and MDs advised eating at home.  (The China Times. 8-6-2016, <­¹«~¤£¦w¥þªº¦~¥N¦p¦ó¦Û«O>, 2016, etc.)

¡´ Taiwan administration's policy led to air pollution, toxic pollution in the land and sea ...   (The China Times, 1-7-2018 ¥xÆW®ü³°ªÅ¦Ã¬V¬r®`¡A¤s®üÅܦâ http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20180107000465-260114¡CDaily Mail (UK) 7-14-2017 : Shocking underwater video from Taiwan shows ocean floor littered with plastic (bottles) garbage)

¡´ Taiwan declared crackdown on prostitution, only to turn into a country with world No.1 percentage of sex-related business consumers of all the adults. (Apple Daily, 12-25-2014 )  

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Harvard professor Dr. Joseph Nye advised in 2010 that hard and soft power enable Taiwan to deal with China and expand its international space.  However, Taiwan's soft power was behind China and Asian's Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, UAE.  Taiwan's military power was recently cut down by half and is in a state of low morale, Taiwan's administration made a core defense strategy to resist Chinese PLA for 2 weeks, and made assumption that then American sons and daughters will always risk their lives to protect our home.

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PS: Taiwan Animation,  int'l contest winners  

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¡@   ¡¹  <Adventures of National Palace Museum> NPM web-site (English version) This site comments the winner of the prize "animation of the year" Tokyo Int'ernational Anim. Fair of 2008. (1) The NPM Chinese version web-page mentions: the film obtains "grand prize exhibition",  a weird grammar sentence.  (2) Japan's web-pages: "Animation of the Year" award goes to <1.0: You are (not) Alone> I have no idea which is right ... describes this animation as  "an exciting story of their (the leading actor, "ceramic child pillow")  search for a katydid that has flown away from another of the NPM's treasure, Jadeite Cabbage".  (1) Not an exciting story. (2) The NPM is in Chaos after night, it can be an exciting story, why was the child only interested in that insect?  (3) Suggest readers to compare with some other films like <Night at the Museum>, or classic animation ¡ÕStatues Que¡Ö. This film "bridges the gap between modern audiences and ancient artworks".   (1)  It's for kids, not for modern audiences.  The film is showing in children's centre of NPM.    Almost all audiences are children when I was there at July 4, 2008. (2)  Children usually love vivid colorful film, not like this film . ¡@ ¡@ ¡¹  <Cubic Tragedy>:  ACM  SIGGRAPH  Peoples' choice no.1 (1) About 10 years ago <TIME>'s article stated Japanese comic strips show a sense of inferiority  about their Eastern face ( many Japanese hero-characters look like western person's feature & body structure ), Cubic Tragedy's Oriental face-lifting story may interests Western audiences. (2) Attendees might feel "proud" when recognizing (or figure out) it's a Picasso's painting, so as to vote this film as People's Choice award winner. (3) The author's strategy is smart, however, the Picasso-inspired idea won't surprise creativity experts, because lots of fine-arts inspired and Picasso inspired ideas have already been developed long long time ago, in both West and Asia.   ( see pic. below) (4)  The author tried to "design" the girl's face (to  avoid "yellow skin") and the Asian eyes (described in the book "Survival of the Prettiest" , or  any look like soap "Ugly Betty" ), <Cubic Tragedy> gives the girl a polygonian (square,cubic), pink face just same as certain background. (5)  Americans invest more money in their looks (beauty) than in education,  around 1/2 the number of global M.D.s in plastic surgery are living in USA, the surgery may be treated as just a make-up or hair-coloring in the near future.   Hence, the pink color may be  sarcastic on that girl and many females, however, changing background-color may broaden the theme. (6)  In 1990, there's a widely-known concept arts : a French artist did a plastic surgery on face, and live show to world arts museums, people can buy this DVD or some skins cut ......  is it an art, a stunt, or a tragedy with various hidden meaning ?  Lots of fine-arts and Picasso inspired ideas're already published long time ago ¡@ ¡¹  <After the rainy days>   winning in UK (1)  A western saying : "Chinese are inscrutable", and many western juries, audiences favor stereotyped image of Eastern world -  so, many Taiwan's films are on purpose full of exotic flavor, mysterious atmosphere, etc, or go even further :  obscure/abstract codes,  philosophical  arts,  poetry like a dream ......... (2)  The "arts" are usually decoded to various meanings, depending upon audiences' knowledge and life experience .......    Picasso and a kid both can create same "art-work" i.e., displaying a M. Duchamp toilet, but the kid doesn't mean too much.   An empty museum is a concept art, randomly shooting in the street is a Surrealism art. (quoted by John Carey, Oxford U. professor, to comment arts) (3) Famous Ad book <Visual Persuasion> (U. Penn. USA) mentions Surrealism is sometimes thought of as a representation of dream (lack of logic) imagery and a source of various hidden meanings.  However, attempt to read these hidden meaning may run into a problem of over-interpretation.    It's mainly an art of eye-grabbing visual paradoxes. (4)  Most audiences only want entertainment, instead of spending efforts in taking a boring philosophy class, or in escaping from a maze. (5)  Great arts can be understandable and popular, i.e., Polish <fallen art>, Canadian <Special delivery>, Korean <Birthday Boy>,  are easily understood, and may touch many people's hearts. (6)  Some symbolic tokens seem not so fresh, i.e., a flying graffiti, or fish soaring to the sky.  Many times it seems to be easy : for instance, "graffiti" symbolizes rebellion, "flying" symbolizes set to free (or release from tyranny), so, combine both to get a flying graffiti.  (7)   Sometimes lyric stuffs may needs obscure (but not too obscure) codes, but, why does mocking-politics kind of film need camouflage? (8)  <After the rainy day> is sort of "arts" animation.   (9)  For so many years, Taiwan government loves to do some political propaganda/comm. by attending int'l film festivals with this kind of obscure-meaning films, so that Taiwan fails to communicate with million times of world audiences, this style of movie already led to Taiwan film industry's death.    ¡@ ¡¹  <A Fish with a Smile> (10 min. short film)   Jury Committee Special prize, Children's Jury Short Film,  Berlinale int'l film Festival 2005 (1) director : C Jay Shih, Alan Tuan, Poliang Lin (2) brief   -  "I once had a fish that was as loyal as a dog, as amicable as a cat, as attentive as a lover".   This animation is kind of surrealism  languages -  deconstructed, inconsistent, hallucinatory, etc. (3) If you like this anim., also try "EEL", a Japanese made Cannes award winner.  (4)  The drawing style is elegant, however, this city looks like Euro's more than Taiwan's. (5)  The nature of animation is closely related to poetry, poetry is related to thinking in nature.   I feel university should produce  great themed art-works. (6)  I guess "fish is crying" is a more witty phrase than "fish is smiling". (because fish is in water) ps: a few other winning anim. can't be found in Youtube, or their school sites ¡@ ¡@ ¡@ Summary: Taiwan is struggling from OEM to OBM (for Pixar 3D films and China's cheap labor),  Taiwan's animation is skilled in drawing tech., but is short of creativity.   1.  Taiwan's society :      Taiwanese people don't think important of arts, culture, creativity, etc.   2.  Taiwan government :      Taiwan doesn't have that kind of environment for creativity.        Creativity needs freedom,  democracy, and people's independent personality.  Government officers don't like creativity, which means extra risk. 3.  Taiwan's universities :      They made very few research on creativity, produced very very few sharp-witty or entertaining animations. Wikipedia encyclopedia concluded that Taiwan government has not worked a lot on cultivating college potential ones in animation field, currently is far behind Japan, S. Korea, and even Red China.  ¡@

comment Alessi Mr Chin & NPM of Taiwan printed in <United News>, one of largest media in Taiwan, Aug. 2008  :  Chinese language version

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