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I once interpreted for a crew recording "man on the street" interviews. I had no experience working in TV, I was a last minute replacement. At the beginning of the day, the producer listed the opinions he wanted to get. "Ok, we'll get a middle aged guy who says this, a younger couple saying something along these lines". He knew exactly what he wanted at the start of the day. There were three camera crews working most…
Serious contender for top accidentally-misleading title for a HN story... * Asian Boss - Not a boss; actually a YouTube channel. * deep blue - not the chess engine, not the emotional state, not related to the US democratic party; nor to any of the films of this name; nor the songs of that name.
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What are the elements of "Chinese culture" that persist in Taiwan and were eliminated in Mainland China?
I live in Taiwan. Very, very few people here are pro-PRC. Tons of Taiwanese people love China and culturally consider themselves Chinese (to be clear, not Chinese citizens.) The vast majority of people disagree on if they should either give up and surrender to the PRC because they may launch missiles or invade once they have a non-laughing stock navy, avoid a bloody war, or if China wouldn’t dare to do that because i…
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What are the elements of "Chinese culture" that persist in Taiwan and were eliminated in Mainland China?
Not exactly sure but I would assume that any trace of religion was the first to go in Mao's revolution.
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It would help if you can list the good facts, especially when it comes to free access of information by citizens, or their desire to swallow up the independence of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
- Standard of living has increased incomprehensibly over the last 40 years.
- Huge cities with incredible culture and history.
- Safe to walk around at night. Imagine walking around downtown NYC or LA at 3am without feeling like you're gonna get mugged.
- Despite all the saber rattling with neighbors Taiwan, Japan, and India, and quarterly tank parades, not involved in hot wars since a misguided invasion of Vietnam in the 80s. Belt & Road might have some predatory loans but they're better than Predator drones.
- COVID has been well-controlled. Wuhan escape was inevitable, just look at how fast variants have spread even with (initially) 70-90% effective vaccines.
- Hong Kong Colony was leased to Britain under duress and returned by mutual and legal agreement; there is no independence argument here
- The last invasion of Taiwan was by the KMT when they fled there in 1949. Today's military provocation consists of flying some jets into an ADIZ (50% of which actually covers Fujian province in China) or shooting some ordnance into the sea.
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What are the elements of "Chinese culture" that persist in Taiwan and were eliminated in Mainland China?
- Traditional Chinese characters used more often in Taiwan than Mainland China.
- Yayue (3,000 years old Chinese court music).
- Taiwanese recreation of Tang Dynasty dances.
- In Taiwan poems are composed/written/recited in Hokkien, on the mainland it is done in Mandarin.
- The preservation of uninterrupted institutional religion (eg Daoist priests) that was largely shutdown in China.
- Taiwan's leader attending ceremonies at temples to mark the birthday of Confucius, something you wouldn't see Xi Jinping do.
- Taiwan's ROC governmental organization was based on the Qing dynasty, so it has the traditional Inspection Ministry that accords with the old censorate.