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 Taiwan Jade, produced in Fongtian, Hualien, was famous worldwide during the 1950s and 60s. The exported jade made a fortune for Taiwan, and its production remains at the top of the world today. This film from the Chinese Taipei Film Archive helps us understand Taiwan Jade's popularity and how its supply could not meet demand at the time. Hok-Shin Liu, professor of the Department of Resources Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, who started the fervor in jade quarrying about four decades ago, was interviewed for the first time. His interview reveals the pinnacle period of Taiwan Jade. .....
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 The memories of developing nuclear experiments in Taiwan were hidden in a dust-covered accelerator in a basement for twenty years. In 2005, the former operators of this accelerator, a retired professor and two veteran technicians, led a group to reconstruct it for educational exhibition, as now known as the NTU Heritage Hall of Physics. The story of the NTU accelerator and its reconstruction is presented in this film. .....
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Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan (Playwright: Wang Rong-yu王榮裕) |
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Mr. Wang Rong-yu, the Founder and Artistic Director of Golden Bough Theatre, was raised in a family that traveled around to perform Taiwanese Operas on 1960. He was the main member of U Theatre taking on major roles for many plays between 1988 and 1992. From 1991, he also was the training manager in the theatre. ......
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Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan (Playwright: Fu Hong-zheng符宏征) |
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 Fu is currently part-time lecturer in Theatre Department at National Taiwan University. He received his M.A. in directing from the Graduate Institute of Theatre Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts and B.A. from Department of Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University. ......
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Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan (Playwright: Yen Hung-ya a.k.a. Hung Hung閻鴻亞、鴻鴻) |
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 Hung Hung is a poet as well as a director of theatre as and of film. Originally named as Yen, Hung-ya, he was the chief editor of two journals, Performing Arts Review and Modern Poetry and established Stalker Theatre Group in 1994 and Happy Sheep Film Studio in 1998. He has published anthologies of poetry, essays, fictions, plays and drama reviews. He has also edited a twenty-volume serial of Chinese Translations of Contemporary Western Plays published by Tang Shan Publisher ......
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A Slice of Wonder
