Taiwan's film importation from China: a political economy analysis of changes and implications
For 40 years, Taiwan observed a strict `closed door' policy with China, concerning not only political and economic relations but also cultural relations. This study examines the changes in Taiwan's importation of China's media and cultural products from 1987, when the two societies resumed contact, to 1997, when both governments announced the most significant policy change. This article reviews the evolution of changes in Taiwan's policies on film importation from China, discusses the motivations for the policy changes and analyzes the implications of these changes. The purpose of this study is to explore relationships between the two Chinese societies' cultural relations and political and socioeconomic relations.
Globalization, telecommunications and trade
Abstract This article describes some characteristics of globalization, one of the most dramatic impacts of the information revolution. There is a need for a broad international agreement on trade in services, yet the changes in thinking that this demands are being hampered by old perceptions, particularly in telecommunications. Issues arising in the Geneva negotiations on trade in services are examined. Particular importance is attached to factoring the implications of the globalization process and the new telecommunications realities into national decision making, if governments wish to retain control over those decisions and their impacts.
State And Society In China: The Consequences Of Reform
Patterns of leadership in reform China, Lowell Dittmer China's new bureaucracy?, Hong Yung Lee urban industrial workers - some observations on the 1980s, Andrew G. Walder urban China - a civil society in the making?, Martin King Whyte urban entrepreneurs and the State - the merger of State and society, Dorothy J. Solinger ideology and rural reform - the paradox of contingent stability, Thomas P. Bernstein students and the State in China - the crisis in ideology and organization, Stanley Rosen intellectuals in the Deng Xiaoping era, Merle Goldman.