A friend of mine told me that when he was a child, he once won first place in a speech contest. When he presented the award after returning home, his father threw it to the ground, shouting that it was useless.
All his father valued was top performance in exams nothing else mattered.
This obsolete ideology, which prevails in many families in Taiwan, is arguably a legacy of the civil service examination system in imperial China.
At a recent cultural conference, film director Wang Hsiao-ti (王小棣) said: “When the Ministry of Culture reports during the Interministerial Meeting on Cultural
Taipei, March 30 (CNA) The Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh (Taiwan FFE) has returned for a third year with an expanded program that will see it screen around 20 Taiwanese films at locations across Scotland from late March through November, according to organizers.
/ Staff writer, with CNAThe historical drama A City of Sadness （悲情城市） by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien （侯孝賢） has topped this year’s list of the 100 best films in Asia in the Busan International Film Festival’s （BIFF） latest rankings.