...Emily Murphy discusses the film adaptation of Jimmy Liao’s The Starry Starry Night (2009) and Chang Ta-Chun’s children’s book Wild Child (1996) in the light of national social issues in Taiwan, especially the intergenerational conflicts between the young...

..., paper shortages, and the 1951 newspaper regulations limiting the number of printing licenses and pages. Those who chose to resist were met with confiscations or bans. Hereafter, the lifting of martial law and restrictions on newspapers in 1988 made for the most important transition period in Taiwan's...

...This chapter examines the period from 2006–2010, which coincided with the onset of a crisis in global neoliberalism. The discussions cover the St. Lucians’ election of the United Workers’ Party (UWP) into office on 11 December 2006; the decision to switch diplomatic relations from China to Taiwan...