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.
Introduction: The Emergence of “Greater China”
The post-Cold War world is witnessing the reconfiguration of international relations with the emergence of new actors and relationships on the world stage. These new actors and patterns of relations are reshaping the familiarities of the post-war era. As the new millennium approaches, one has the sense that the world is in transition from one epoch to another. Among the new realities of our era is the emergence of “Greater China.”
Beyond Glasnost: The Post-Totalitarian Mind
""Beyond Glasnost" is a thoughtful exploration of the past decade's cultural and political ferment in Eastern Europe. It is also something else: an argument in a deceptively unassuming, anti-ideological voice about how to conceive of and move toward freedom; an argument that could hardly be more relevant to the roiling debates on the Western left." Ellen Willis, "Village Voice ""