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.
Euro-Japanese Cooperation in Information Technology
At the end of September 1987, the author was entrusted by the Japanese Government, represented by the Japanese Delegation to the OECD, to carry out a study of the “European-Japanese Cooperation in Information Technology”. The project attempts to collect data on industrial cooperation between Japanese and European firms and to analyze this data with regard to the benefits expected to be derived from, or already brought to the partners and their countries of origin.