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Taiwan |
After
De-sinicization |
Taiwan has cultural
heritage ? |
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New York Times, 2023-8-8:
For the most part, Taiwanese people seem to be at ease
with their Chinese heritage. In the political
debate, Taiwanese nationalists often emphasize the existence of the Indigenous
groups as evidence that Taiwan has its unique origins, of which the Chinese
culture is only a part... Even though the Indigenous groups make up only 2
percent of Taiwan's population, they’re an important part in the narrative of
Taiwanese nationhood.
nytimes.com/2023/08/08/business/taiwan-cuisine.html
culture about women, sex
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New York Times, 2023-7-27:
our society remains patriarchal and
hierarchical. Under Confucian values, women obey their fathers and their
brothers and eventually their husbands. People are expected to respect and yield
to their elders and superiors — in short, the powers that be...
In a collectivist culture like ours, the burden of being nice and
preserving group harmony falls on those with less power and authority
nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opinion/taiwan-women-metoo.html
Vickie Wang
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Reuters, 2023-7-28:
Despite Taiwan's reputation as a
progressive bastion in a conservative region - the first place
in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage...to
confront a problem long shrouded in shame and silence.
Victims of abuse often stay silent due
to what experts say is a tradition of victim-blaming, cultural
pressure, and unequal power relationships.
.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/years-after-metoo-first-swept-world-taiwan-races-respond-2023-07-28/
Sarah
Wu
★ DW
(Germany), 2023-6-13: Taiwan's
culture remains conservative, and chauvinism still exists in workplaces and
politics.。
# MeToo victims may be "judged" by the public for sharing details....they
may not be treated justly,
...the
existing mechanisms are inadequate, which prompts the victims to reveal their
experiences online
dw.com/en/metoo-in-taiwan-exposes-a-hidden-culture-of-harassment/a-65903757
William Yang
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Economist, 2023-6-22:
Taiwanese women who
are abused convince themselves “that it’s no big deal”. A survey in
2021 found that 82% of women sexually harassed in the workplace did
not make formal complaints. Nearly half of those who kept quiet had
“brushed it off as a joke”.
economist.com/culture/2023/06/22/a-tv-drama-about-taiwanese-politics-has-sparked-a-social-reckoning
★ ABC
Australia, 2023-6-24:
Young
women, since they were children, they are already taught to protect
themselves, or try to tolerate this kind of inconvenience
(accept harassment). Sexual
harassment and sexual assault are prevalent in all kinds of
power relationships.
abc.net.au/news/2023-06-24/taiwan-metoo-movement-triggered-by-netflix-show-wave-makers/102505174
Joyce Cheng and Erin
Handley
★ The
Guardian (UK), 2023-6-8:
the deeply patriarchal norms that still
govern Taiwanese society.
#MeToo victims in the dark and perpetrators
enjoying impunity”. In formal legal proceedings they were unlikely to
succeed. "
theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/08/taiwan-ruling-party-rocked-sexual-harassment-claims-metoo
AmyHawk
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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
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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
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 UNESCO’s
list of intangible
cultural heritage
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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 |
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3 |
Japan |
20 |
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4 |
Mongolia |
15 |
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5 |
India |
13 |
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6 |
Indonesia |
10 |
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7 |
Saudi Arabia |
8 |
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8 |
Cambodia |
5 |
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9 |
Philippines |
4 |
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10 |
Qatar |
3 |
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10 |
Malaysia |
3 |
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10 |
Pakistan |
3 |
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13 |
Thai |
2 |
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14 |
Singapore |
1 |
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14 |
Sri Lanka |
1 |
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14 |
Vietnam |
1 |
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14 |
UAE |
1 |
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18~2X |
Myanmar, Laos, Nepal |
0 |
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Taiwan |
0 |
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Taiwan has been doing De-sinicization
(getting rid of Chinese
culture) , and has not
been included in
UNESCO’s list of
intangible cultural heritage.
The culture of Taiwan is a blend of Confucian Chinese and indigenous
Taiwanese cultures. Politics continues to play a role in
the conception and development of a Taiwanese cultural identity.
(Jan. 2021, wiki)
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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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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
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