Ten Years On: A View of the Mainland from a Taiwanese Cultural Perspective: A View of the Mainland from a Taiwanese Cultural Perspective

Author: Lin Guofang
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Read the great book of heaven and earth, observe the world of emotions. A rare phenomenon in Taiwanese culture, a benchmark for implicit Taiwan, directly targeting the blind spots and misconceptions in the cultural process across the Taiwan Strait. This book is an interview between a mainland journalist and a Taiwanese cultural scholar, and the first of its kind in China to analyze the changes in Chinese society over the decades of reform and opening-up through the lens of a Taiwanese cultural observer. The interviewee, Mr. Lin Guofang, is not only a music scholar but also a cultural critic active in Taiwanese cultural circles for many years, with a touch of Zen. The cross-disciplinary nature of his roles and the diversity of his perspectives make his cultural observations and insights cover a wide range of topics, including tourism, ethnic integration, urban renewal, cross-strait artistic exchange, and cultural heritage. He compares and organizes the trajectories of cultural development on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, while also clarifying the misconceptions reflected in the psychology of people on both sides due to limited channels of communication. Unlike theoretical scholars who generally study Chinese culture as their research subject, Mr. Lin Guofang considers himself a practitioner of Chinese culture. With a consistent stance in promoting China and more than sixty trips to mainland China, he seeks to repay the nourishment and upbringing of Chinese culture, while also hoping to promote mutual understanding and cultural complementarity between the two sides through this book. Read the great book of heaven and earth, observe the world of emotions. A rare phenomenon in Taiwanese culture, a benchmark for implicit Taiwan, directly targeting the blind spots and misconceptions in the cultural process across the Taiwan Strait. This book is an interview between a mainland journalist and a Taiwanese cultural scholar, and the first of its kind in China to analyze the changes in Chinese society over the decades of reform and opening-up through the lens of a Taiwanese cultural observer. The interviewee, Mr. Lin Guofang, is not only a music scholar but also a cultural critic active in Taiwanese cultural circles for many years, with a touch of Zen. The cross-disciplinary nature of his roles and the diversity of his perspectives make his cultural observations and insights cover a wide range of topics, including tourism, ethnic integration, urban renewal, cross-strait artistic exchange, and cultural heritage. He compares and organizes the trajectories of cultural development on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, while also clarifying the misconceptions reflected in the psychology of people on both sides due to limited channels of communication. Unlike theoretical scholars who generally study Chinese culture as their research subject, Mr. Lin Guofang considers himself a practitioner of Chinese culture. With a consistent stance in promoting China and more than sixty trips to mainland China, he seeks to repay the nourishment and upbringing of Chinese culture, while also hoping to promote mutual understanding and cultural complementarity between the two sides through this book.