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Taiwan cultural & creative industry (Taiwan Soft Power) ★ this site's world No. 1 in 2020~23, 2017~19, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010~12 ★ Top since 1998 ★ |
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Taiwan cultural & creative industry (Taiwan Soft Power) ★ this site's world No. 1 in 2020~23, 2017~19, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010~12 ★ Top since 1998 ★ |
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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 ♣ Asia Nikkei (Japan), 2022-5-30: Taiwan makes soft power grab for Europe's Mandarin learners - Push comes as China's Confucius Institutes face global headwinds. asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Taiwan-makes-soft-power-grab-for-Europe-s-Mandarin-learners
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& soft power enable Taiwan to
deal with China and
expand its international space. (Dec. 8, 2010)
The Diplomat 10-5-2020 (https://thediplomat.com/2020/10/us-presidential-elections-2020-the-taiwan-factor/)
advises that
Taiwan’s strategic calculus could double down on
its use of soft power.
Washington Post, 2-17-2021:Today,
98 % of Taiwanese are ethnic Han Chinese...
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Taiwan's
culture
like a mouse in circles
still stay in same place.
A column
article of United Daily 2-21-2019: Taiwan's cultural and creative
industry almost become an endangered industry.
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 ......
so as to lose advantage in
cultural-creativity battlefield. Critiques in UDN (10-24-2019) :
Design field thinks culture & arts are nothing but decorative, fine arts
belittle commercial arts, etc ... the arts should take the lead for the
fusion of tech. and culture
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https://udn.com/news/story/11321/4122342
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. 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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Taiwan's soft power vs. Asia's soft power
Till
2019-2020,
Taiwan has not been included in Portland or USC Soft Power survey ranking list,
so 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
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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."
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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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Till 2020, Taiwan has not been included in the top ranking list of the world's most livable cities
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★ Taiwan's cultural creativity : artists―shortage of creativity & vivid imagination ! government―lacking of forward thinking ... United Daily (1-10-2016): 3 major political parties' presidential candidates all ignore cultural policy & direction in their debates. Liberty Times 4-6-2016: Government took the lead to plagiarize, and ignored copy-rights, Taiwan becomes "an island of Plagiarism".
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Taiwan's
soft power :
Taiwan Soft Power,
Taiwanese
personality
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◎Tourism
For full text
TaiwanTour & Travel
★ CNN (2022-12-6): Taiwan's 'living hell' traffic is a tourism problem. Taiwan is notorious for its dangerous roads. Multiple countries, including Australia, Canada, Japan and the US, have specifically called out Taiwan's road conditions. "Many drivers do not respect the pedestrian's right of way,” the US State Department warns. The Canadian government: "Motorcycles and scooter drivers don't respect traffic laws. They are extremely reckless.” Cities in Taiwan share a major issue – a lack of pavements and consistent walkways for pedestrians, ... Pedestrians are then often “forced” to walk onto car lanes... The number of people lost their lives to traffic incidents in Taiwan is approximately six times higher than Japan and five times higher than the UK. msn.com/en-us/travel/news/taiwans-living-hell-traffic-is-a-tourism-problem-say-critics/ar-AA14Xb2n brief
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Taiwan's travel & tourism - 10th in Asia
World Economic Forum (WEF) <Travel
and tourism competitiveness report> released at 9-4-2019 shows
Taiwan had the sub-region's largest
decline in competitiveness from 30th
down to 37th.
Taiwan ranks
No.10 among Asian countries.
for details : click
tourism
According to
World Economic Forum (WEF) <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 world top 5 indexes such as
"World
heritage natural sites" as well as
"World heritage cultural sites".
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◆ restaurants - Taiwan's cultural creativity on food
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2022 Michelin stars comparisons among Asian countries |
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num. of 2 stars |
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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 |
| Singapore | 3 | 7 | 41 | 51 |
| Macau | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| Seoul (Korea) | 2 | 7 | 24 | 33 |
| Shanghai (China) | 2 | 8 | 37 | 47 |
| Taipei (Taiwan) | 1 | 6 | 24 | 31 |
| TaiChung City (Taiwan) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Kaohsiung (Taiwan) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| TaiNan City(Taiwan) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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restaurants in full details
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restaurants
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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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Din Tai Fung admitted at 5-9-2012 having
used Monosodium Glutamate
/ sodium glutamate (M.S.G.) as
addictive in some foods there -
and they won't change this policy so as
to keep major cuisine (e.g., steamed
bun/bao (小籠包), chicken soup) delicious (according
to United Daily News 5.9.2013).
According to
National
Health Research Institutes
and United Daily News
(8-15-2015) "Horrible foods for
dining out": Taiwan's food (in
restaurants, cafeteria, etc)
problems include using MSG. Taiwan's
5 star restaurants like Sherwood
Hotel announced any chefs using
MSG will be fired.
According to int'l medical
studies, using Monosodium
Glutamate (MSG) is
controversial. (ref to "The
Dangers of MSG"
:
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/facts/the-dangers-of-monosodium-glutamate.htm)
Some claimed it
may causes asthma, headache, even brain
damage. )
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Din Tai Fung was suspicious
of being involved in
Taiwanese food scandal, Apple Daily (蘋果日報)10-10-2014
reported that one Taiwanese Dept. of
Health found out Din Tai Fung imported some oil
products from King's Cook which bought lard oil (mixing animal
feed with cooking oil) from Ting Hsin Int'l. (
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20141010/485241/
台中市衛生局調查發現，鼎泰豐曾向購買頂新正義油品的台中金品調理(KingsCook)
公司進貨，恐中鏢。) ● (3) Din Tai Fung admitted having used G.M.(genetic modified) soy material(豆類) for a long time (until July 2015). The China Times, (3.29.2013) reported professor Kuo H. J. (National Taiwan University, Department of Agronomy) comments - Taiwan using G.M.(genetic modified) is "national scandal" (「國家級醜聞」), French scholar Seralini found G.M. foods may cause cancer with higher probability, BBC (6.6.2013)<Taiwan diet danger everywhere>: Taiwan is the only country eating cured products made by animal-feed, G.M.(genetic modified) soya beans. (主妇联盟说台湾是世界上唯一直接食用饲料级基改黄豆加工 的豆制品国家。) But Din Tai Fung still used the "scandalous" G.M. stuff for 2+ years after the news being spread island-wide. Recently, CNN (7-24-2015) dropped Din Tai Fung down to No.20 position in Taiwanese foods list.
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Brand Personality ?
Din Tai
Fung's Hong Kong branches were
just eliminated their Michelin
star
Din Tai Fung USA website
(http://DinTaiFungusa.com)
has also been advertising a similar one in its front-page.
(tests till present at
9-17-2015)
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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
◆ Food - scandals
Taiwan's food safety scandals
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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.
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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 2017, Taiwan still only has small number of winnings in int'l ads & creativity contests.
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Take Taiwan's national ads : "UN for Taiwan" (Taiwan to join the UN ) , as an example :
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UN for Taiwan ad. is "un-limited creativity" |
(1) Those are quite old ideas. |
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National ChenChi University, ad. professor book |
using puns in UN series is " very creative and witty idea" |
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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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ADK Taiwan's
"House of Little Moments"（【統一小時光麵館】2016）was
the 1st Lion-award Taiwan got since
2006/2007, this is still a practical
idea, instead of a sharp-witty one.
★ a TV commercial concerning Taiwan's highest divorce rate in Asia and 2nd in the world by 電通 won an award in Cannes in 2021, but it is "a story" lacking of clever idea.
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World's top contest, prize & honors, and university's opinions |
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Cubic Tragedy |
ACM SIGGRAPH
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Experts won't feel the idea, girl face-lifting resulting in Picasso's cubism a <weeping woman>, unexpected .
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Cubic Tragedy |
NYLU's graduate school paper concluded this animation as "Picasso-inspired idea ..... contrary to our expectation". |
experts
suppose won't feel this idea "un-expected". |
| National Taiwan Univ. of arts | A fish with a smile |
Berlin international Film Festival, children's section, Special Prize of jury committee |
(1) it's just a story for children. (2) elegant drawing style, but those pictures don't look like any city in Taiwan. |
| National Tainan Univ. of arts | After the rainy day |
winning in UK |
Just like most Taiwan's films,
boring
obscure-meaning codes, hence most people
are hard to understand or may make over-interpretation. |
| National Palace Museum | Adventures of NPM | (1) grand prize, 2008 Tokyo International Anim. Fair. (2) anim. goal : " bridging the gap between ancient artworks and modern audiences. |
(1) it's a story for children, not for modern adults. (2) the film is showing in children's center of National Palace Museum, Taipei Taiwan. |
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.)
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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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<Brave New World> Chinese translation book |
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United Daily 10-31-2019: Plagiarism again in Taiwanese design field !! an art-work in Tai-Nan art festival copied UK's, another art-work on train (government's project) copied Russian's ...... All Taiwanese designers should respect themselves and take these cases as a lesson.
Apple Daily, opinion, 7-20-2018 : Taiwan ( Taiwanese everywhere) lacks of aesthetics accomplishments, particularly those in power can allocate resources have "really turn me off" taste (倒盡胃口), Taiwan's public art works are too vulgar to be endured (俗不可耐), and some are sort of cheap-copy works (仿冒竊).
Critics in UDN (10-24-2019) : Design field thinks culture & arts are nothing but decorative, fine arts belittle commercial arts, etc ... the arts should take the lead for the fusion of tech. and culture ( for details pls. read https://udn.com/news/story/11321/4122342 ) .
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
◆ Taipei Performing Arts Center was selected as one among "the transformative buildings set to shape the world" in 2021, in that the eye-catching building has a planet-like sphere protruding from one side - will undoubtedly serve as a contemporary landmark for the Taiwanese capital; however, some look-alike sphere buildings were already designed earlier ― all "plug" into a central cube.
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below are Taiwan's "Face" buildings :
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Taipei 101 building |
Ugliest skyscraper in the world : NOT very exquisite & aesthetic appearance |
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Tao-yuan international airport |
1st Hall : copied U.S. airport. 2nd Hall : shortage of spirit breadth and arts atmosphere. |
An article by VIP professor in Taiwan major newspaper (2002) asserted : " Copy is humanism spirits" 、 " How can we bear and even enjoy those original designed architecture by Taiwanese, our own people !? "
ps1: Taiwan's Pavilion at Shanghai's World Expo. 2010 (China) ― an ordinary architecture, far worse than UK's Pavilion (based on same construction cost and same land-space).
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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.
Some examples are listed as below:
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Pic. left is the
logo of Taiwan government, since 11-9-1993,
next 3 are logo of Canadian Pacific Rail,
since 1968. In addition to cheap-copy suspect, Taiwan's official document states their logo "easy to identify and associate with Taiwan's brand ... a simple shape and modernized & internationalized, aesthetic design " ; but, exactly on the contrary, it's neither modernized, nor as aesthetical simple as CPR's logo...
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"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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Film/movie Taiwan's film almost dead
● 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.
● New York Times, 5-29-2020 : "Looking for an Introduction to Taiwan’s Greatest Filmmaker?"
NY Times introduces Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s
work : “Millennium Mambo”(千年曼波), ,“The Assassin”(刺客) , “The Time
to Live and the Time to Die” and “Dust in the Wind”(風中的塵埃), etc. "Much of the acclaim for Hou rests
on the implicit challenge that his movies pose to conventional narrative
filmmaking. They are less rooted in story than in
motion, space and time — the fundamentals of cinema. "
Cinephiles scoffed: Maybe Hou was simply too
challenging, too singular and too uncommercial for any distributor here
to touch... But scholar Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh noted that Hou himself
likened his style to liubai 留白, the Chinese ink-painting technique of
leaving space blank. full details pls. read
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/movies/Hou-Hsiao-Hsien.html
● France 24, 11-21-2020: Chinese cinematic talents used to dominate the Golden Horse nominations but China boycotted the event last year after a Taiwanese director called for the island's independence during an award acceptance speech. ref to: france24.com/en/live-news/20201121-two-hong-kong-political-films-win-at-taiwan-golden-horse-awards
● Till 2020, Taiwan has submitted 46 films for Oscar consideration. Three Taiwanese films (The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman(1994), and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)) have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ― all were directed by Ang Lee.
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List of Asians' big-wins in Oscar 2016 - 2021 |
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| Best Picture | 2021- Japan (nominated); 2020- China (won); 2019 - S. Korea (won) |
| Best Actor | 2020 - S. Korea/USA (nominated) |
| Best Actress | 2016 - Israel/USA (nominated) |
| Best Supporting Actor | 2016 - India/UK (nominated) |
| Best Supporting Actress | 2020 - S. Korea (won) |
| Best Director | 2021 - Japan (nominated); 2020 - China (won), S. Korea/USA (nominated); 2019 - S. Korea (won) |
| Best Original ScreenPlay | 2020 - S. Korea/USA (nominated); 2019 - S. Korea (won); 2017 - Pakistan/USA (nominated) |
| Best Adapted ScreenPlay | 2021 - Japan (nominated); 2020 - China (nominated), Iran/USA (nominated); Armenia/USA (nominated) |
| Best Int'l Feature Film | 2021 - Japan (won), Bhutan (nominated); 2020 - Hong Kong (nominated); 2019 - S. Korea (won); 2018 - Japan, Lebanon (nominated); 2017 - Lebanon (nominated); 2016 - Lebanon (won) |
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List of Asians' big-wins at Cannes Film Festival 2016 - 2021 |
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| "Palme d'Or" | 2019 - S. Korea (Parasite) |
| 2018- Japan (Shoplifters) | |
| Best Actor | 2022 - S. Korea |
| 2016 - Iran | |
| Best Actress | 2022 - Iran |
| 2018 - Kazakh | |
| 2016 - Philippines | |
| Best Director | 2022 - S. Korea |
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List of Asians' Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival 2016 - 2021 |
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| Best Picture | 2016 - Philippines |
| een.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lion | |
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List of Asians' Best Animated Feature in Oscar 2016 - 2021 |
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| 2020 | China/USA (nominated) | |
| 2018 | Japan (nominated) | won Annie Awards |
| 2016 | Japan (nominated) | |
| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Feature | ||
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List of Asians' winners in SIGGRAPH 2016 - 2021 |
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| 2020 | India (Computer Graphics Achievement Award) | |
| 2017 | India (Computer Graphics Achievement Award) | |
| 2020 | Australia (Distinguished Artist Award) | |
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List of Asians' British Academic Film Awards 2016 ~ 2021 |
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| 2021 | Australia, New Zealand (BAFTA Award for Best Film) |
2019 |
S. Korea (BAFTA Award for Best Film) |
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BAFTA Award for Best Film Not In English |
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| 2021 | Japan (won) |
| 2019 | S. Korea (won) |
| 2018 | Japan, Lebanon (nominated) |
| 2017 | S. Korea (won), Cambodia (nominated) |
● China (mainland) and Hong Kong boycotted Taiwan's Golden Horse Award 2019 for controversial statements concerning Taiwan Independence in Golden Horse Award 2018 . Taiwan president office responded that culture should not be blocked by political barrier. China declared its film award ceremony (金雞獎) will be held once per year since 2019, which implies China's boycott lasts.
● Taiwan's film industry got 3 major troubles :
(1) Taiwan government used to do political propaganda/comm. by using movies, till now 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.
(2) 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. Lacking witty & creative idea led to Taiwan film industry's death.
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Taiwan's movies fail to create better humour like "Lost in Beijing"
( red Chinese film banned by CHN gov.) .
☉ 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.
☉ Taiwan's <You are the
Apple of My Eye> of 2011 was 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.
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.
(3) Taiwanese are rich, but spent little on arts, and taste not too good - many people prefer real things, like money. International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported 2010 Taiwanese GDP (USD 35,604) ranked world no. 21.(news 9/23/2011)
| per person per year (200X) | |
| movie | NT470 (about US 15) |
| drama | NT91 (US 3) |
| dancing show | NT65 (US 2) |
United Daily, 2022-7-5: too much controls by the gov. results in uninteresting TV show, and industry suffering. udn.com/news/story/121823/6425508?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub121823_pulldownmenu_v2
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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
(5-24-2020): NETFLIX in Taiwan is filled with Korean soap operas,
Taiwanese indeed favor Korean story. 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.
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Variety show/program of assorted
entertainment:
UDN 7-22-2018: Among all creative & cultural industries, Taiwan's audio
& visual industry has closest relationship with China's, but
Taiwan's entertainment shows are too 'slapstick" for
Chinese people. 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 !
BBC (UK), 1-13-2013: Taiwan's pop culture leaps Chinese
hurdles -
Millions in China watch the Taiwanese variety talk show Kang Xi Lai Le -
but not on television. it's not just a reluctance to
embrace a different kind of TV humour. Chinese regulations forbid all
types of Taiwanese talk shows from being aired in their original state.
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About 10 years ago, ROC on Taiwan government together with <The United News> system organized a Taiwanese team to participate in Euro's largest humour contest, ＜Kokke Heist Humour & Cartoon Festival ＞，only 3 artists (including Zola Zu) were selected.
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 : i.e., T.Y. Ju (Ron Chu) .
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Apple Daily, editorial, 10-3-2020: Taiwan president Tsai said "The power of design is the nation's power". From today on, "design" is no longer just an actor, but a "leading actor". https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/20201003/Y3KEHXF4CRDRLJNNY2ZOJUMZ3I/
(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 existing ), 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.,
| ☉ Europe, Belgium rug Co. | installed a special compass in each product, its needle points to Islam's holy land instead of pointing South/North － this created a lot of business. |
| ☉ Japan | made a watch converting 114 world major cities' time to Islam holy land's time, with time-alarm function for Muslims' prayer. |
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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.
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Alessi "the Chin Family" |
(1) <NPM>
cooperates with Japan, Italy, hence, NPM's products are not purely
Taiwanese or Chinese flavor.
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How about "Chinese Creativity" in today's Taiwan ?? |
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"Jadeite
Cabbage" tray-pillow for |
(1) most
products directly use antique-art shape.
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Don Dynasty ladies picture slippers |
just directly applied antique pictures on products. |
<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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directly use antique pictures（or simplify a little bit） |
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