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Khuuchir performance with Tsendsuren Enkhtur. Photo used with permission. Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in the north and China in the south, sharing a common history as a power that once dominated those two empires. One less known trace of Mongolian–Chinese cultural hybridity can be found in music, as both nations have a tradition of performing on bowed string instruments. To understand the links but also differences in this repert...
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Screenshot from Indigenous Bridges YouTube channel. As a country that experienced successive waves of colonization against a diverse Indigenous population, Taiwan is a multilingual society, but power relations among languages are far from equal. Originally inhabited by Austronesian tribes, of whom 16 are recognized today, Taiwan initially spoke Formosan languages, part of the Austronesian family. Successive Dutch, Spanish), and Japanese) colonization imposed other languages. Massive migration from mainland China in the 17th century brought Min Chinese languages, followed by Mandarin Chinese af...
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Footage from within Myanmar with rebel armies by Will Yang, Screenshot from Youtube channel of Taiwan PTS INNEWs. Taiwan and Myanmar are linked throughout contemporary history as a result of a substantial Chinese population loyal to the Kuomintang (KMT) having lived in Myanmar in the 1950s, but also because both countries face China's interference on their border. At the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the defeated Kuomintang army fled by boat from mainland China to Taiwan. But some also took a long terrestrial road from southwestern China, where many had gathered, and eventually moved t...
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Image featuring Hung Shang-kai, a Taiwanese doctor returning from Gaza. Screenshot of video on Taiwan News Formosa TV's YouTube channel. Fair use. While Taiwan demonstrated official and societal support for Ukraine in the days following the full-scale invasion by Russia, reactions to Israel's war in Gaza have been and remain much more subdued. Most responses endorse the policies of the Israeli government, including within Taiwanese society. However, there are a few Taiwanese, mostly activists, who show support for Palestinians in general, and Gazans in particular. To unpack those narrative fro...
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Image from Miao Poya's Facebook. Used with permission. The presidential and parliamentary elections in Taiwan on January 13, 2024, ended with the pro-Taiwan autonomy Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) winning the presidential election. However, it only obtained 46 percent of the seats in the parliament and failed to retain its legislative majority. On the other hand, the Kuomintang (KMT) won 47 percent, and the emerging People's Party of Taiwan (PPT) won up to 7 percent of the parliamentary seats. The rise of the so-called third party (i.e., political parties other than the longstanding DPP an...
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Photo of the 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan, from Wikipedia, used under CC BY 2.0 Licence In the spring of 2014, Taiwan experienced an unprecedented youth protest known as theSunflower Movement that altered local politics and relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC). But what is its legacy ten years later, as relations between the two countries remain a source of tension? To unpack the movement that occupied governmental institutions as a reaction to a proposed deeper economic integration with the PRC, Global Voices interviewed Taipei-based journalist and activist Brian Hioe, one...
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Mo Yan. Image by Bengt Nyman via Wikimedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. This post was written by Alex Colville and originally published in the China Media Project on March 11, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with the China Media Project. A spat about the patriotism of one of China’s most celebrated writers has been blown out of proportion on the Chinese internet, thanks to harsher nationalist laws and an increasingly rabid cancel culture. One of China’s most celebrated modern authors is in the firing line, and...
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