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Folk Arts -- 5/26/2010At a Glance Revivals of spoken drama and dance productions Reinvention of Kun Opera Latest home-grown cinema box-office success Several waves of settlement and shifts of sovereignty over recent centuries have bequeathed Taiwan a di...... Indigenous Culture -- 5/26/2010Facing mainstream assimilation and a loss of traditions, Taiwan’s 14 officially recognized indigenous groups have been working over the last two decades to preserve their cultural heritage and identity. Younger generations of indigenous communities are ke...... Hakka Culture -- 5/26/2010Traditional Song and Drama Hakka folk songs are called “hill songs” or “tea-picking songs” and evolved from tunes sung by Hakka pioneers as they worked in the tea fields around their hilltop settlements. Hakka grand opera developed from Hakka traditio...... Music -- 5/26/2010Traditional Chinese Music There are four main professional groups in Taiwan performing mostly traditional Han Chinese music: The Taipei Chinese Orchestra founded by the Taipei City Government in 1979, the National Chinese Orchestra set up by the Minis...... Puppetry -- 5/26/2010Puppet shows were one of the primary forms of entertainment in Taiwan until television arrived during the 1960s. Nearly any festive occasion, such as a wedding, holiday or temple celebration, called for a puppet performance. Numerous troupes were active t...... Spoken Drama -- 5/26/2010The beginnings of what Taiwan’s spoken theater has become today can be ascribed to the Little Theater Movement of the 1960s with works by several new dramatists, including Li Man-kuei and Yao Yi-wei. The first professional stage play produced by an indepe...... Dance -- 5/26/2010The dance world in Taiwan today is surprisingly diverse, considering that it really got its start only in the late 1960s, when performances by American dance companies such as Alvin Ailey and Paul Taylor exposed local dancers and audiences to new styles o...... Cinema -- 5/26/2010The turn of the 20th century saw the advent of cinema in Taiwan in the form of imported Japanese films. The first local productions using local actors began to be made in the mid-1920s. Government-controlled and heavily influenced by Japanese convention a...... Literature -- 5/26/2010Before 1945 Ching Rule (1683-1895) Regulated verse poetry in the classical Chinese tradition was the main form of literature in Taiwan during the Ching period. In the mid-1800s, Taiwanese poets began to express a native identity in their poems, wr...... |
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