Students studying Chinese in Taipei might be interested in the 6th Taipei Chinese Character Festival. There is a “Cultural Bazzar” and an Art Exhibition featuring ten South-east Asian artists.
Cultural Bazaar
The bazaar will feature a fusion of Chinese characters and the cultural creative industries. Activities include calligraphy, paper cutting, lithography, interactive character quizzes, New Year’s couplet [...]
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NTNU Mandarin Training Center
國立臺灣師範大學 National Taiwan Normal University, Shi-Da, founded the Mandarin Training Center in 1956 for the study of Mandarin Chinese by foreign students.
The Mandarin Training Center represents one of the world’s oldest and most distinguished programs for language study, attracting more than a thousand students from over sixty countries to Taiwan each year and making the [...]
Preserving Taiwan’s Austronesian Aboriginal Languages
Reviving Ethnic Diversity:
Preserving Taiwan’s Austronesian[1] Aboriginal Languages
“Language is much more than collections of words with meaning that can be translated – they embody whole perspectives on meaning which are not readily capable of translation, and they are a key resource for understanding culture.”
“Taiwan has been colonized by the Spanish (1626-1642), the Dutch (1624-1662), Ming Dynasty [...]
Penghu: Casinos not the answer
A letter I wrote to the Taipei Times was published today:
Penghu(彭湖): Casinos not the answer
Sunday, Sep 14, 2008, Page 8
President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) comment that only economically disadvantaged outlying islands would be considered as casino venues needs a rethink (“Ma offers outlying islands hope of developing casinos,” Sept. 9, page 3).
A referendum held [...]
Xinyi to go car-free on Monday Sept 22
The Taipei Times reports that Xinyi district in central Taipei will be car-free for the first time ever! I’m quite surprised that they chose a Monday to do this. The Taipei City government will also be having a group biking activity which will cover a distance of 16km on Sunday, Sept. 21.
Taipei city has hundreds [...]
Kinmen National Park 金門國家公園
Kinmen National Park 金門國家公園
In 1995, three years after the ending of the military administration of the island, Kinmen National Park was opened. It was Taiwan’s sixth national park and the first to have the primary aim of protecting historical and cultural heritage, and serve as a war memorial. Kinmen Island today is still a military [...]
Rotary International Youth Program limits interaction with Taiwanese
The Rotary International Youth Program allows thousands of teenagers world wide to attend a year long exchange program in the country of their choice.
Mads Meoller, the Danish student, made some interesting comments regarding the,
written agreement between the exchange students and the organizers of the program that discouraged them from learning about Taiwanese politics, and matters concerning the weaker or stronger sex, which limited their interaction with their Taiwanese counterparts. “It was a fight to learn about culture,” he observed…..having restrictions like these does seem to be a contradiction in terms.
Studying Mandarin at Shida
Blogger Shu Flies is a Mandarin Scholarship student at the National Taiwan Normal University’s (Shida) Mandarin Training Center. Located in Taipei, Shida is the place were most foreigners end up learning Mandarin.
Shu Flies has written about her experience at Shida:
Online role playing game for learning Mandarin Chinese
A team of developers supported by Michigan State University and the Office of the Chinese Language Council International have spent the past few years piecing together Zon — a browser-based virtual world wherein users can learn the Mandarin Chinese language.
Dutch man revives Taiwanese puppets
Asia’s rich intangible cultural heritage is under constant pressure from the homogenising forces of globalisation. As values change ancient art forms die. Traditional Taiwanese puppetry has received a helping hand from an unlikely source.
Robin Ruizendaal, a Dutchman, is the unlikely Director of the Lin Liu-hsin Puppet Theatre Museum*.
The Mandarin speaking, [...]
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