8 results
Search Results
2. The Naming Logic and Imagined Cultural Identity in the "Controversy of Orthodox Guohua" during the Early Post-War Period in Taiwan (1946-1959): A Micro-analysis of Cultural Politics.
- Author
-
Liao, Hsin-Tien
- Subjects
- *
PAINTING , *ARTISTS , *CONFERENCES & conventions , *ARTS - Abstract
In the light of the 1945 regime change in Taiwan, the status of Tōyōga/Eastern Painting plunged from being the "darling" of official exhibitions to "public enemy". At an art forum in 1951, the artists who migrated from mainland China launched the first attack. They lashed out against Tōyōga, ridiculing it with a common Chinese saying, "worshipping another family's ancestors as one's own". At the "Art Movement Symposium" in 1954, it was adamantly asserted that "Guohua produced in Taiwan is an extension of the motherland" and that "paintings by Han Chinese in Taiwan constituted Guohua". The majority of the participants at the symposium were Taiwanese artists who established themselves during the Japanese colonial era. The two art conferences appear to be unrelated, but in fact both were responses to regime change and attempts at imagining cultural identification. The theme of cultural belonging in art was brought into play dramatically on the stage of Taiwanese society during the early post-war period. It was generally known as the "controversy of orthodox Guohua". A macro-analysis of cultural politics determines the inter-relationships between politics, culture and institutions in the cultural policies devised by the Nationalist Party during the early post-war period. However, this analysis on the macro level may not be adequate for an exhaustive study on how the subject can engage in cultural action under the aforesaid system. This paper provides a micro-analysis of cultural politics. It argues that the subject's cultural competence is a reflection of how cultural policies have been translated and put into practice, as well as how culture has been manifested concretely and effectively. Through an analysis on the micro level, this paper examines the issues pertaining to cultural naming and the imagination of cultural identity under the rubric of the "controversy orthodox Guohua". The critical approach of this paper is in accord with Eric Hobsbawm's concept of "the invention of tradition," as both are concerned with how the subject and the community negotiate through and respond to new political and cultural circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2012
3. Representation of Gender and Politics: Contemporary Taiwanese Women's Spirituality and Eco-Arts.
- Author
-
Chien, Ying-Ying
- Subjects
- *
21ST century art , *SPIRITUALITY , *WOMEN , *ARTS - Abstract
After years of development, Women's visual arts have increased in aspects of its genre or quantity. Women's spirituality related creative works have also provided audiences with more varieties of thinking and dialogic modes. Especially, since 1990s, major joint art exhibitions in Taiwan have pioneered and expanded the exploration, the content of Women's visual arts and their aestheticism. An observation on the exhibitions in three major official museums in Taiwan (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum) reveals the fact that the attempts and efforts of Women's visual arts to expand new models and formats have formed important directions, and have thus constructed an indispensable part of art development in Taiwan. Facing the rapid changes and developments of art scenes in the 21st century, how do Taiwanese Women artists confront the world trend and their situation in life while proposing their own point of view through the artworks? The present paper attempts to sort out the characteristics of Taiwanese Women's visual arts from the angle of Women spirituality. Through a replenishing point of view, the multiplicity to the Women's Arts should be revealed. Through the re-exploration of different Women's arts orient and occident, and reconsider the oppressions and persecutions of female body and mind enforced by the structure of traditional paternal monotheism and industrial science, this paper will provide a spiritual enlightenment to Taiwanese Women's spirituality & eco-political arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2012
4. The Effect of the NEET Cohort on Family and Society in Taiwan.
- Author
-
Jung-Min Hsu
- Subjects
- *
UNEMPLOYMENT , *SOCIAL context , *FAMILY relations , *COHORT analysis , *SOCIAL history ,HISTORY of Taiwan -- 2000- - Abstract
This paper investigates an emerging social phenomenon in Taiwan: the new unemployed cohort ("Not currently engaged in Employment, Education or Training", or "NEET"). The author examines how the changing social environment, personal history, family intergenerational relationship, and education contribute to making this cohort isolated and unable to enter the labor force. The paper further discusses the impact of the NEET cohort on the family and the social problems arising from the NEET phenomenon, and makes policy recommendation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2010
5. Staying Tightly with Cultural China: Half-mainlander Wan-chu Lee's Politics of Identification.
- Author
-
Li Jiahui and Chih-yu Shih
- Subjects
- *
DEMOCRATS (United States) , *DEMOCRACY , *CULTURAL nationalism ,CHINESE politics & government - Abstract
It is widely recognized that Taiwanese democrat Wan-chu Lee, a so-called half-mainlander who spent a good part of his career in China, was in general in favor of democracy in his coping with the national issue. However, this paper argues that his understanding of the Chinese nation is primarily a cultural nation and he gave this cultural identity an authentic reading that is not to be transcended by his promotion of democracy. Despite that the prospect for democracy was aborted by the actual development in China, his identification with cultural China never faded away. This paper traces the evolution of his cultural identity and how he was able to stay with it throughout his career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2009
6. The Comparison between Collective Bargaining Agreements from the Taiwan Collective Bargaining Agreement Act and Collective Contract from the Mainland China Employment Contract Law.
- Author
-
Chey-Nan Hsieh
- Subjects
- *
COLLECTIVE labor agreements , *COLLECTIVE bargaining , *LABOR laws , *INDUSTRIAL relations - Abstract
In the 21th century's first decade, China has made great progress in social legislation. The Female Rights Protection Law of 2005, the Employment Promotion Law of 2007, the Labor Contract Law of 2007 and the Social Insurance Law of 2010 were passed to regulate a wide scope of labor practices and to provide fair employment, better labor conditions as well as social benefits regarding unemployment, occupational injuries, retirement and healthcare. The Labor Contract Law drew more public attention than any other laws. It invited 190,000 recommendations in the month following the disclosure of its draft bill. Unlike Taiwan's Collective Agreement Law of 1930 governing the practice of collective agreement between unions and management, Chinese Labor Contract Law also regulates collective labor contract's equivalence to a collective bargaining agreement. This paper compares the provisions specifically governing collective labor contracts with Taiwan's Collective Agreement Law. The findings of the comparison are: 1. The laws of both sides governing the agreements or contracts are, in nature, substantially private laws even though China set several compulsory administrative requirements for concluding a valid collective labor contract. 2. The legal concept denoting a Collective Labor Contract or Collective Agreement is a separate concept from the employment contract or individual labor contract and refers to a private contract regulating labor conditions and subject matters regarding labor relations between union and management. The contract will impose civil obligations on the parties and may be litigated due to a breach of covenanted term. 3. With the government's assistance, collective labor contract has been widely established for self-regulating the labor conditions and labor relations in China but a Collective Agreement has not yet become a significant scheme for self-regulating the labor conditions and labor relations in Taiwan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2012
7. On Cultural Impact and Stylistic Changes of Art: The Taiwanese Painters Dwelling in China during the Japanese Occupation Time.
- Author
-
Lin, Yu-Chun
- Subjects
- *
PAINTERS , *ARTS - Abstract
The creation of painting in Taiwan in the early twentieth century was first inspired by Japanese art teachers. The new idea of "realistic painting" introduced at the time allowed the discovery of "local colors." However, the Taiwanese painters who employed the artistic ideal of "painting one's intent" were able to escape the limitation imposed by the concept of "local colors." How did the painters explore the artistic styles offered by the new global contexts through the colonization of Japan is an important issue that requires in-depth investigation. This issue is further complicated by painters who were not only influenced by the Japanese arts but also the traditional Chinese arts, as some of the Taiwanese painters moved to China after their training in Japan in order to search for a new style that conflates the Eastern and the Western arts. Taking several painters, Liu Jintang, Chen Chengpo, and Guo Bochuan as examples, this paper explores issues of identity, cultural impacts, and stylistic developments of the arts in the early twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2012
8. Cross-Strait Relations, Taiwan's Political Ecology, and Chinese National Identity: Review of Mainland China's Policies towards Taiwan in the Past Twenty Years.
- Author
-
Jianming Xu
- Subjects
- *
CHINESE people , *NATIONAL character , *CIVIL rights , *SOCIAL history ,TAIWANESE politics & government, 2000- - Abstract
The paper induces three stylized facts about the present situation of the cross-strait relations and Taiwan's political ecology. These stylized facts may be summed up as the deterioration of the Taiwanese people's Chinese national identity. And these problems are to a great extent the result of Mainland China's totalitarianism political system and the low level of livelihood and the underdevelopment of the civil rights conditions in the Mainland as well as the improper policies of the Mainland towards Taiwan. In conclusion, Mainland China needs to reform its totalitarian political system, increase the level of livelihood and the civil rights conditions, as well as improve its policies towards Taiwan. These measures may help to optimize the policies of the Mainland China towards Taiwan and reconstruct the cross-strait imagined communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2010
Discovery Service for Jio Institute Digital Library
For full access to our library's resources, please sign in.