"Most of the musicians featured in the Chinese Musician Series have passed away or are too frail to perform," Li said. "Looking back, we realize we were recording during the golden age of traditional music, preserving a number of classic...
"Most of the musicians featured in the Chinese Musician Series have passed away or are too frail to perform," Li said. "Looking back, we realize we were recording during the golden age of traditional music, preserving a number of classic masterpieces." Producing such an album was costly. Li...
The Culture of Taiwan is a hybrid blend of Confucianist Han Chinese, Japanese, European, American, global, local and Taiwanese aborigines cultures, which are often perceived in both traditional and modern understandings. The common socio-political experience in Taiwan gradually developed into a sense...
Attracting stars and regular folk alike, this upmarket version of a typical beef noodle soup restaurant provides a unique experience if you’re after a traditional Taiwanese beef noodle soup, but don’t want the rough and ready environment that are a feature of most outlets, then make your way...
The traditional costumes of ethnic minorities are extremely luxurious. Song Zuying, once known as the queen of folk songs, chooses to wear a few ethnic costumes every time. He says that the national is the world. Although fashion is constantly looking for inspiration from the classics, the dres...
Emerging from the mud but forever appearing clean and elegant, the lotus has long been a spiritual symbol of life in traditional Chinese art and literature. After graduating from the Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Science, Chen Yingting has devoted herself for years to popular...
The ROC Armed Forces have a traditional association with the 外省/waisheng(post-1949 Chinese immigrant population), who often exhibit anti-Japanese sentiment (seeprevious blog post here). This is because the army had fought the Japanese in China prior to fleeing to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-Shek ...
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6. The traditional Japanese wedding was captivating. 7. The images of a student wandering in the city with a camera, especially when she changed her student train pass which expired March 9, reminded me so much of my adventures in Madrid. ...
The Taipei Folk Dance Theatre and the Formosan Aboriginal Song and Dance Troupe are among several new dance companies that have formed to reconstruct and preserve traditional dances. The State of the Physical and Social Sciences Continued economic prosperity is dependent on progress in ...