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Books dealing with the sovereign state in East Asia. Aka the "Free area of the Republic of China" which is not ruled by the Communist Party of China. Taiwanese literature refers to any literature written by Taiwanese in any language ever used in Taiwan, including Japanese, Taiwanese Han (Hokkien, Hakka and Mandarin) and Austronesian languages.
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On the one hand, these filmmakers are the descendants of the May Fourth movement at the beginning of the century. One of the important ideological components of the May Fourth movement was its radical antitraditional stance, exemplified by its famous slogan: "Smash the Confucian Temple" (zalan kongjiadian).
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― Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China
― Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China
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In Taiwan, where bubble tea was invented, people have been drinking Chinese tea styles with milk since Dutch colonization in the seventeenth century. But milk tea-- specifically, Indian black teas where milkiness is as important as the tea-- arrived late, some time around the Second World War. As the story goes, a former bartender, Chang Fan Shu, thought to serve it cold, and shake it like you would a cocktail. When he did this, the fats and proteins in the milk allowed it to form a foam, and he
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― All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
― All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
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