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Taiwan |
Taiwan
culture |
not included in list of UN cultural heritage
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♣
MSN, 2022-11-1:
Taiwan's
cultural legacy is a combination of Chinese, Japanese,
aboriginal, Dutch, and contemporary influences.
msn.com/en-sg/travel/news/post-restrictions-travel-guide-to-taiwan/ar-AA13z1Bl
♣ SCMP, 2022-8-23:
Beijing's sorties across the median line responded to Taiwan's
"diplomatic salami"
; Taiwan was also inching away from the status quo with its history textbooks
for schoolchildren downplaying a China-centric view of history on the island
♣
XinHua, 2022-9-10:
The series of cross-Strait
intangible cultural heritage exchange activities were first held
in 2009. Since then, various cultural treasures from several
provincial-level regions, including Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and
Hunan, have been introduced to Taiwan people through this
platform
english.news.cn/20220910/eccf041b003d41e59bf496aa0cfd4f0a/c.html
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cultural artifacts
of Taiwan's National Palace Museum
nThe
Guardian, WION, 2022-11-1: the National Palace Museum is home to the world’s largest collection of Chinese artefacts.
NPM admits breaking artefacts worth over $70 million
msn.com/en-in/news/world/taiwan-national-palace-museum-admits-breaking-artefacts-worth-over-70-million/ar-AA13APIG
nGlobal
Times, 2022-10-31:
Those cultural treasures
in NPM have become the cultural link and historical bonds
that cannot be cut off between the Taiwan island and the Chinese
mainland.
Signs indicate that it's no accident that such incidents have happened one after
another in recent years. The root cause is that the DPP authorities' promotion
of "de-Sinicization" in the Taiwan island has seriously affected the protection
and management of cultural relics
globaltimes.cn/page/202210/1278338.shtml
nChina Times, 2022-10-30, editorial:
NPM was questioned bad-management or even stealing & selling some
artifacts
chinatimes.com/opinion/20221029003036-262101?chdtv
nUK's Telegraph at 3-13-2015 :
"Curiously, one of the
world’s greatest collections of Chinese antiquities is not in
China – but across the Strait in Taiwan.". |
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DW (Germany), 2022-8-17 |
Taiwan considers evacuating cultural artifacts amid China
tensions;
National Palace Museum
denied these rumors in a statement
dw.com/en/taiwan-considers-evacuating-cultural-artifacts-amid-china-tensions/a-62836646
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Global Times, 2022-8-9 |
CNN on July 30 revealed that "in the event of an evacuation, the museum
said it would focus on saving around 90,000 relics from its
700,000-strong collection, prioritizing artifacts of higher
value and those that take up less space...
to the US and Japan....it
hard to dispel public concerns....The
relics are cultural heritage of the 5,000 years of
Chinese history, and once sent abroad, it will be difficult
to get them back,
The museum's collection will be better off if it remains where it is in the
event of an "attack from the Chinese mainland," suggested Feng Ming-chu,
former curator of the museum
globaltimes.cn/page/202208/1272494.shtml |
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China Times, 2022-8-13 |
"真正的護國神山在故宮"
/
according to world scholars' opinions, China won't attack
Taiwan by nuclear bomb as long as those
cultural artifacts
remain in Taiwan.
chinatimes.com/opinion/20220813002769-262101?chdtv
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♣
abc news (Australia), 2022-9-8:
Amid China's military and diplomatic
isolation, Taiwan turns to films and games to reconnect with the world.
Taiwan was still "in its early
days" of building soft power. While Taiwan's government had been
aware of investing in soft power for a long time, there was a lack of
coordinated strategy between different ministerial departments. "The DPP
did put more of a focus on things like multiculturalism and democracy,
whereas the KMT focuses a little bit more on the Chinese base to
Taiwanese culture" ; In 2020, Taiwan reported $44.7 billion in revenue
from its creative industry, with a 9.83 per cent increase in overseas
sales on the previous year.
msn.com/en-au/news/australia/amid-chinas-military-and-diplomatic-isolation-taiwan-turns-to-films-and-games-to-reconnect-with-the-world/ar-AA11zOGi
♣ BBC, 2-10-2021, "Why Taiwan has 'luck-improvement services' ":
There’s a pervasive idea running through Chinese culture that things aren’t
random,
Stevan
Harrell, emeritus anthropology
professor at the University of
Washington said,
“There’s a belief in order: there’s some sort of order behind
everything.” Many people believed in a simple maxim: “tian zhuding” (“heaven
decides”).
Some higher power has plans for
each person on Earth,
traditional Chinese belief also
holds that “heaven never seals
off all the exits” – there is
always a way out.
“We call [this attitude of openness] ‘youbai youbaoyou’,” (有拜有保庇)“, It doesn’t matter if you believe in gods. If you pray, you’ll be blessed.”
So, even the upscale Eslite
Bookstore has a cosmological
self-help section chock full of do-it-yourself fate-improvement guides.
People in the
Chinese-speaking world seem particularly preoccupied with luck, from
boarding gates to high-stakes baccarat tables and school exams to
political races, (Even
politicians are compelled to publicly try their luck, visiting temples
to draw fortune sticks ...)
Yet while many countries have
their own superstitions and
rituals. brief
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210210-chinas-enduring-obsession-with-luck
♣ The
China
Times 12-24-2017 headline & focus news:
Taiwan's culture
like a mouse in circles
still stay in same place,
Taiwan's De-Sinicization policy
gave up rich Chinese cultural
background and history ... so as
to lose advantage in
cultural-creativity battlefield.
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pic.1 Taiwan VS Korea, in Publications, Movies,
TV, Ads., Pop music , CTN 12-24-2017 (Korea -red bar, Taiwan - blue bar
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♣ CTN comments that Taiwan's cultural &
creative industry has nothing but slogans and many argues. 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, according to statistics
by Taiwan government and reports by headline news of the China Times at
12-24-2017.
CTN comments that 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.
Taiwan's De-Sinicization policy gave up rich Chinese cultural background
and history ......
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
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UNESCO’s
list of intangible cultural heritage
/ https://ich.unesco.org/en/lists
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ranks |
Asian country |
heritage items selected |
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1 |
China |
40 |
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2 |
Korea |
24 |
|
3 |
Japan |
20 |
|
4 |
Mongolia |
15 |
|
5 |
India |
13 |
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6 |
Indonesia |
10 |
|
7 |
Saudi Arabia |
8 |
|
8 |
Cambodia |
5 |
|
9 |
Philippines |
4 |
|
10 |
Qatar |
3 |
|
10 |
Malaysia |
3 |
|
10 |
Pakistan |
3 |
|
13 |
Thai |
2 |
|
14 |
Singapore |
1 |
|
14 |
Sri Lanka |
1 |
|
14 |
Vietnam |
1 |
|
14 |
UAE |
1 |
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18~3X |
Myanmar, Laos, Nepal |
0 |
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Taiwan |
0 |
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Taiwan is doing De-sinicization (getting rid of Chinese culture) for
political reason.
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sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-hawker-culture-gets-nod-included-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list-140941296.html
12-16-2020:
Singapore’s hawker culture was officially
approved on Wednesday (16 December) to be inscribed into UNESCO’s
list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. The biggest
thanks must go to the generations of hawkers for nourishing a
nation’s stomach and spirits. Taiwan is proud of its
night market
culture, but was not selected.
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Washington Post, 2-17-2021:Today,
98 % of Taiwanese are ethnic Han Chinese...
there has been a shift
among younger generations who increasingly do not feel China’s
emotional pull but rather embrace their home island’s history, and its
Indigenous culture, as an expression of being distinctly Taiwanese.
Indigenous artists (related
to the Austronesian peoples)
shine as Taiwan’s mainstream embraces its island identity.
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2022
Michelin stars comparisons among Asian countries |
|
Michelin cities |
number of 3 stars |
num. of 2 stars |
number of 1 star |
total num. |
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Tokyo (Japan)
|
12 |
41 |
150 |
203 |
|
Hong Kong |
7 |
12 |
52 |
71 |
|
Kyoto (Japan) |
6 |
19 |
83 |
108 |
|
Osaka (Japan) |
3 |
11 |
82 |
96 |
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Singapore |
3 |
7 |
41 |
51 |
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Macau |
3 |
5 |
7 |
15 |
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Seoul (Korea) |
2 |
7 |
24 |
33 |
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Shanghai (China)
|
2 |
8 |
37 |
47 |
|
Taipei (Taiwan) |
1 |
6 |
24 |
31 |
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TaiChung
City (Taiwan) |
0 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
|
Kaohsiung (Taiwan) |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
TaiNan
City(Taiwan) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Users/88695/Downloads/20220830_PR-MG_TTTK-2022.pdf
guide.michelin.com/th/en/article/news-and-views/michelin-guide-singapore-2022-new-starred-restaurants
2022-7-12
guide.michelin.com/en/article/news-and-views/michelin-guide-seoul-2022-eng
guide.michelin.com/hk/en/article/news-and-views/michelin-guide-hong-kong-macau-2022-unveiled-today-with-11-newly-starred-restaurants
guide.michelin.com/en/article/news-and-views/the-michelin-guide-kyoto-osaka-2022-is-unveiled-en
michelin.com/en/press-releases/michelin-guide-2022-shanghai/
guide.michelin.com/en/article/news-and-views/michelin-guide-tokyo-2022-eng
2021-11-29
Taipei Times, 2022-9-10,
Liberty Times (Taiwan), 2022-8-30, editorial :
This
year’s Bib Gourmand list for Taiwan includes more than 20 types of
cuisine. With Taiwanese cuisine accounting for as high as 30 percent of
the total ...
Taiwan's cuisine / Indigenous diets are characterized by
taro, yam, millet, wild vegetables and herbs, wild boar and seafood.
Early Han Chinese immigrants, predominantly from Fujian and Guangdong
provinces, introduced their traditional foods to Taiwan, adding a range
of new delicacies to the national cuisine. The
Japanese colonial era brought a smorgasbord of new flavors and textures
to Taiwan, including sashimi, oden (various ingredients simmered in a
soy-flavored dashi broth) and boxed meals containing steamed rice and
side dishes. At the end of the Chinese Civil
War, 2 million Han Chinese arrived on Taiwan’s doorstep and brought with
them the eating customs and cuisines of northern and southern China
...
talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1537171
taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2022/09/10/2003785064
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full details:
restaurants
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Taiwan's
soft power
vs.
Asia's soft power
Till 2020,
Taiwan has not been included in Monocle's Soft Power survey top 25 ranking list
and Top 30 Soft Power by Portland, etc, Taiwan's soft power is behind Asian's "world top 20" nations
, including Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand,
China, India, UAE.
for details : click
Soft Power
|
world best surveys |
Taiwan's rankings
in top 25~30 list |
comparison with
other Asia & Pacific countries |
|
Brand Finance - Global
soft power Index 2022 |
failed top 10 |
1. US, 2. UK,
3. Germany, 4. China, 5. Japan,
6. France, 7. Canada, 8. Swiss,
9. Russia, 10. Italy |
|
ISSF's World
Soft Power 2022 |
failed top 10 |
1. US 2.
France, 3. Germany, 4. Japan, 5.
UK, 6. Swiss, 7. Italy, 8. S.
Korea, 9. Spain, 10.
China,11.India,12. Sweden, 13.
Canada, 14. Australia, 15.
Denmark |
|
Brand Finance - Global
soft power Index 2021 |
failed |
1. Germany, 2. Japan, 3.
UK, 4. Canada, 5. Swiss, 6. US,
7 France, 8. China, 9. Sweden,
10. Australia, 11. Korea, 12
Holland, 13. Russia, 14.
Norway, 15. Denmark, 16 NZ, 17.
UAE, 18. Iceland,
19. Italia, 20. Singapore |
|
US News:
2021 Best Countries Overall |
failed top 10 |
2. Japan, 5. Australia
7. New Zealand |
2020
Brand Finance - Global soft
power Index ,
top 60 |
n/c |
https://brandirectory.com
No. 4 Japan, 5 China, 13 Aus,
14 Korea, 18 UAE, 20
Singapore, 22 NZ, 26
SA 27 India |
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|
2019/2020
Top 30 SOFT POWER by Portland |
not included |
No. 8 Japan, No.9 Australia,
No. 17 New Zealand, No. 19
S Korea, No. 21
Singapore, No. 27 China |
US News:
2020 Best Countries Overall
The Best Countries in the World |
n/c |
No.3 Japan, No.5 Australia, No.
11 New Zealand,
No. 15 China, No. 16 Singapore ,
No. 20 Korea,
No.22 UAE , No.25 India, No.
26 Thailand,
No. 30 Qatar |
|
2018/2019
Monocle's
Soft Power survey |
not included |
No. 3 Japan, No.8 Australia,
No. 11 New Zealand, No.15 Korea,
No. 19 China, No. 21
Singapore, No. 25 India |
|
2018/2019
Soft Power 30 Study by USC Center
on Public Diplomacy |
not included |
No.5 Japan, No. 10 Australia,
No. 18 NZ, No. 20 S. Korea, No.
21 Singapore, No. 27 China |
|
2017/2018
Monocle's
Soft Power survey |
not included |
No. 4 Japan, No.9 Australia, No.
13 New Zealand, No.17 Korea, No.
19 China, No. 22
Singapore, No. 24 India |
|
2017/2018
Soft Power 30 Study by USC Center
on Public Diplomacy |
not included |
No.6. Japan, No. 8.
Australia, 18. NZ,
No. 20 Singapore, No. 21 S.
Korea, No. 25. China |
2016/2017 Monocle's
Soft Power survey |
not included |
No. 3 Japan, No.6 Australia, No.
13 New Zealand, No.17 Korea, No.
20 China, No. 23
Singapore, No. 24 India |
2015/2016 Monocle's
Soft Power survey |
not included |
No. 4 Japan, No.6 Australia, No.
13 New Zealand, No.15 Korea, No.
21 China, No. 23 Singapore |
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★
According to a survey of 2020,
Singapore ranks No.1, Japan No.7, Korea
No. 9 on "enterprise", Japan ranks
No. 5, China No.10 on "engagement",
Korea ranks No. 5 on "digital", Japan
ranks No.6, China No. 8 on "culture", No
any Asian country ranks top 10 on
"education" and "govt."
★ Best Countries overall in 2020: 1 Swiss 2 Canada 3
Japan 4 Germany 5 Australia 6 UK 7 USA 8 Sweden
9 Nederland 10 Norway 11 NZ 12 France 13 Denmark 14
Finland 15 China 16 Singapore 17 Italy 18 Austria 19 Spain
20 Korea 21 Luxembourg 22 UAE 23 Russia 24 Portugal
25 India 26 Thailand 27 Greece 28 Brazil 29 Israel 30 Qatar
31 Saudi Arabia 32 Malaysia 33 Mexico 34 Poland 35 Turkey
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★
Livable
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Economist, EIU, THE GLOBAL LIVEABILITY INDEX 2022
Biggest movers down the ranking in the past 12 month
Taipei (Taiwan) ranks world No. 53
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City |
Location |
Rank |
Index |
Rank Move |
Index Move |
| 1 |
Wellington |
New Zealand |
50 |
85.7 |
-46 |
-8.0 |
| 2 |
Auckland |
New Zealand |
34 |
89.2 |
-33 |
-6.8 |
| 3 |
Adelaide |
Australia |
30 |
90.7 |
-27 |
-3.3 |
| 8 |
Taipei |
Taiwan |
53 |
85.1 |
-20 |
1.2 |
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world's most
livable cities ...
include Taiwan's ?
Till 2020,
Taiwan has not been included in the top ranking list of
the world's most livable cities
|
world's
most livable cities |
|
world best surveys |
Taiwan's rankings
in top list |
comparison with
other Asia & Pacific countries |
|
EIU's Global Liveability Ranking 2022 |
failed top 10 |
1. Vienna 2.
Copenhagen 3. Zurich 4. Calgary
5. Vancouver 6. Geneva 7.
Frankfurt 8. Toronto 9.
Amsterdam 10. Osaka |
|
The World's Best Cities to Live In 2022 |
failed top 10 |
1. London, 2.
Tokyo, 3. Shanghai, 4.
Singapore, 5. Melbourne, 6.
Sydney, 7. Paris, 8. Beijing, 9.
NY, 10. Amsterdam |
|
The
EIU's Global Livability Index
Ranking
2021 |
failed top 10 |
|
|
The World's Best Cities to Live
In 2020
|
failed top 10 |
1. Tokyo Japan, 3. Singapore, 5.
Melbourne Australia, 8 Seoul
Korea, 10. Sydney Australia
|
|
Monocle's Quality of Life survey
2021 |
9 Taipei |
1. Denmark, 2. Swiss, 3.
Helsinki, Finland, 4. Stockholm
Sweden, 5. Tokyo, Japan, 6.
Vienna 7 Lisbon, 8.
Auckland, 9 Taipei, 10. Sydney
|
|
|
|
The
EIU's Global Livability Index
Ranking
2019 |
failed
in the top
50 |
No.2 Melbourne, No.3
Sydney, No.4
Osaka
(Japan), No. 7 Tokyo,
No.10 Adelaide,
No.12
Auckland (NZ), No.15
Wellington (NZ), 18
Brisbane (Aus) ,
No. 38 Hong Kong, No. 40
Singapore, No.57
Seoul (Korea), Taipei
behind
|
|
Monocle's Quality of Life survey
2019 |
failed in the top list
https://monocle.com/film/affairs/quality-of-life-survey-top-25-cities-2019/ |
No.2
Tokyo (Japan), No.11
Melbourne (Australia), No.13
Sydney, No.16 Hong Kong,
No.17 Kyoto (Japan), No.21
Auckland (NZ), No.22 Fukuoka
(Japan), 23 Brisbane,
25 Singapore
|
|
Deutsche Bank Liveability Survey |
not included in the top list
https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000494405/Mapping_the_world%27s_prices_2019.pdf
|
No. 2 Wellington (NZ),
No. 7 Melbourne ( Australia ),
No.10 Sydney, No.14
Tokyo No.16 Auckland (NZ),
No.17 Dubai (UAE), No. 23
Singapore, No. 26
Saudi Arabia Riyadh, No.
29 Seoul (Korea), No. 33
India Bangalore, No. 39
Malaysia
Kuala
Lumpur,
44 Hong Kong,
46 India Delhi, No. 48
Shanghai (China),
No. 55 Beijing |
|
Safe Cities Index (SCI)
2019, EIU (Economist
UK), NEC |
failed in the top 20 |
No.1 Tokyo, No.2
Singapore, No.3 Osaka (Japan),
No.5 Sydney (Aus), No. 8 Seoul
(Korea), No10 Melbourne, No. 20
Hong Kong |
|
ArchDaily
/ The World's Most
Livable Cities in 2019 |
failed in the top 20 |
No. 3.
Auckland,
New Zealand,
11.
Sydney,
Australia,
No.15.
Wellington,
New Zealand ,
No.17.
Melbourne,
Australia
|
|
The EIU's Global
Livability
Index
Ranking
2018 |
failed
in the top
50 |
No.2 Melbourne
(Australia), No.3
Osaka (Japan), No. 7
Tokyo (Japan) , No.10
Adelaide (Australia),
No.12 Auckland (NZ)
Wellington (NZ) ... ...
(omitted), Taipei 58
|
|
The EIU's Global
Liveability
Index
Ranking
2017 |
failed
in the top
50 |
No.1
Melbourne, No. 5
Adelaide, No. 7
Perth,
No. 8 Auckland (NZ), No.11
Sydney, No.13 Tokyo,
No. 14 Osaka,
No.16 Brisbane, No.
20 Wellington (NZ), No. 35
Singapore, No.45
Hong Kong, No.58
Seoul (Korea), No.60
Taipei
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EIU (Economist UK)'s
Global Liveability
Index
evaluates
stability, healthcare, culture&environment,
education, Infrastructure of each country
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