In old black and white footage we can see the tracks of Mazu belief ’s development in Taiwan. The sea has always been a “good sea”, providing food and used for transport, but it can also be a sea of misery, full of fear and uncertainty. This dual personality made the people who lived beside it and sailed on it respect and fear the sea. In Asia, Mazu is the most important sea god/goddess in southeast China and Taiwan, Okinawa, Korea and Japan in northeast Asia, and Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. .....
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Taipei Zoo in black and white |
National Taiwan’s University’s meticulously planned “Digital Insect World” exhibition is currently being shown in Taipei Zoo and has received an enthusiastic response from the public, fascinating many people with its secrets of the natural world. Do you know that in 1915 during Taiwan’s Japanese colonial period Taipei had a zoo? What changes in ecological conservation concepts in Taiwan are illustrated by post 1945 news films? Let’s go to the Chinese Taipei Film Archives to hear this interesting story. .....
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Chinese New Year in black and white |
February 15 2010, the date the TELDAP newsletter was published, was the second day of Chinese New Year, the time when married daughters traditionally return home to visit their mother. How did you pass the Chinese New Year? Despite many being government propaganda films the black and white news films in Chinese Taipei Film Archives give us a view of Taiwan in the mid 20th Century. Let’s watch these old films and see what Chinese New Year in Taiwan was like in days gone by. .....
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Forever loyal:The ROC Marine Corps in the Cold War era |
The two sides of the Taiwan Straits have been separated by politics for 60 years. Today, tensions have eased but, in the Cold War period, especially the first few decades, at a time when daggers were drawn and the ROC was desperate to “reclaim the mainland,” the ROC Marine Corps was the force that would strike the first blow in the campaign to liberate the people of China. The TELDAP Union Catalogs contain much precious historical material relating to the ROC Marine Corps in the Cold War period, allowing us, through the Internet, .....
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Many of us are too young to have lived in the 1950s and 60, the heyday of the E.Sha song and dance troupe, however, TELDAP’s film archives allow us to cross the barrier of time and space and pay a visit to the era of E.sha, one of the most famous troupes in Taiwan from 1950s to 1984. TELDAP newsletter has specially chosen 13 news films relating to dance and entertainment from 1953 to 1967 from the more than 5000 publicly available in the National Film Archives’ Vcenter. We heartly invite you to slowly savor them. .....
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The Glorious Violins - The Cremona School |
Tags: Cremona | violin
Stringed instruments are among the most beautiful sounding instruments, and possess a unique, multi-faceted expressive capability. Their range of sound imitates the human voice, bearing extreme charisma both in aesthetic perception and emotional interpretation. The stringed instrument can also simultaneously perform fast-paced and highly ornamented pieces to enable skilled performers to spontaneously express various musical sentiments, from soft sweetness to dramatic tension. Stringed instruments also combine well with other instruments in ensemble performances. .....
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