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In the Late Pleistocene, sea levels were about 140 metres (460 ft) lower than at present, exposing the floor of the shallow Taiwan Strait as a land bridge. [6] A concentration of vertebrate fossils has been found in the channel between the Penghu Islands and Taiwan, including a partial jawbone designated Penghu 1, apparently belonging to a previously unknown species of genus Homo, dated ...
Taiwan Crime Stories (Chinese: 台灣犯罪故事; pinyin: Táiwān fànzuì gùshì) is a 2023 Taiwanese television series produced by CalFilms Asia, Imagine Entertainment and Sixty Percent Productions for the Walt Disney Company. [1] The series premiered on January 4, 2023, as an original through Disney+ via Star. [2]
The Second World War's hostilities came to a close on 2 September 1945, with the defeat of the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany.Taiwan, which had been ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, was placed under the control of the Kuomintang-led Republic of China (ROC) by the promulgation of General Order No. 1 and the signing of the Instrument of Surrender on that day.
This story involves two greenhorn salesmen, one of whom has a "bad attitude" which rapidly evolves in the course of events. The story includes elements that can be read as metaphors for the social situation in Taiwan: a pressure cooker that explodes and a cap that disguises disfiguring marks on an innocent little girl's head.
The stories in Taipei People vary in length and writing style, all focusing on characters and their lives after leaving China for Taiwan in the 1950s. The collection includes 14 stories: "The Eternal Snow Beauty" (永遠的尹雪豔), "A Touch of Green" (一把青), "New Year's Eve" (歲除), "The Last Night of Taipan Chin" (金大班的最後一夜), "A Sea of Blood-red Azaleas ...
Two areas of cross-pollination between literature and other arts in Taiwan include modern dance (particularly the modern dance troupe Cloud Gate Dance Theater, founded and directed by author Lin Huai-min) and filmmaking (including productions of stories by Huang Chunming directed by the leading Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien).
The February 28 incident (also called the February 28 massacre, [3] [4] the 228 incident, [5] or the 228 massacre) [5] was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan in 1947 that was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang–led nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC).
Ken Liu's The Paper Menagerie & Other Short Stories in 2016 includes a short story titled The Literomancer which references the 28 February incident from the perspective of a young American girl who had recently moved to Taiwan, and asks both her father, who works on an American military base, and a neighbor, and old man named Mr. Kan about the ...