The contents of the website are the consolidated results of the two phases (a total of four years) of the National Science Council's “Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program,” previously known as the “National Digital Archives Program.” The most important and representative pieces of audiovisual information in the “Taiwan Modern Drama and Performing Audio-Visual Library,” established in 2003 at the National Central University, were selected to be digitally archived. ......

Tai-Hsiang Li was born on Feb. 20, 1941 to an aboriginal family at Malan Township, Taitung County, Taiwan. His father is Kuang-Hsiung Li and his mother is Lien-Luan Li, a native of Puli Township, Nantou County. The family moved to Taipei in 1946.

After graduating from Department of Music, National Taiwan Academy of Arts in 1961, Li was hired to serve as the first chair violinist of Taipei Symphony Orchestra. At the invitation of Germany’s Goethe Institute in the..... 

Computex Taipei has recently come to a successful close for another year. It seems that trade shows in Taiwan, big and small, all have to have “show girls,” who use up photographers’ film and memory card space, if they are to win media attention. The online discussion sparked off by the decision of a NTU (Taiwan’s premier university) to chose being a show girl as her career showed that there will always be controversy in Taiwan when a top student, and.....

Keeping cool in summer in black and white Walking along on the path in the heat of summer it’s easy to mistakenly think you are melting. How to cool down: drink soda pop, eat shaved ice or go to the beach? The Chinese Taipei Film Archive shows us all about summer in Taiwan in the second half of the 20th century. Shaved ice, cooling you down and also satisfying hunger pangs, naturally became the favorite choice in summertime. In 1973 a hygiene problem with drinks sold on the streets caused a stir and the government, at a time when it monopolized the means of mass communication, produced the film.....

The Taichung Earthquake of 1935, the August 7 floods of 1959, 1999’s Chi-chi Earthquake and the 2009 August 8 typhoon disaster are probably the natural disasters that have hit Taiwan in the last 100 years that have caused the most deaths and injuries and are etched deepest in the collective memory of the people. As the first anniversary of.....