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Indigenous artists shine as Taiwan s mainstream embraces its island identity
Alicia Chen and Gerry Shih, The Washington Post
Feb. 17, 2021
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TAITUNG, Taiwan - Deep bass kicks and nose flute melodies pulsated from the outdoor stage framed by lush greenery just a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean.
Sangpuy Katatepan Mavaliyw stopped singing, then switched to Mandarin. This was an ode to the ancestral land that he revered, he explained - the land on which the crowd of 200 Chinese-speaking Taiwanese now stood. We have had many colonists who have come here, Sangpuy said, not delving too deeply into the painful history of his Puyuma Katratripulr tribe. But Taiwan has always been the same, he added, nourishing us, protecting us.
““Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
“…The real power. The power we have to fight to for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.”
These sentences are taken from the classic dystopian novel
1984 authored by George Orwell in 1949. They show the importance of psychological control in establishing a complete hegemony over society. In this article, the focus will be on Chinese perception control. It takes a quick look into the censorship history during the Ming Dynasty and examines today’s constitutional provisions for highly controlled media in China. It asserts that the normalisation of censorship in Chinese society is because of the fear of being oppressed, which has been carried along the centuries of history. Finally, it concludes by showing the situation of current surveillance society and the state’s more than required control over the citizen’s life.