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Article: Flowing desire, floating souls: modern cultural landscape in Tsai Ming-Liang's Taipei trilogy.
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- CineAction
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- January 1, 2002
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Emerging in the early 1980s, Taiwanese New Cinema has developed its style as a reflection of Taiwan's history and society, representing the country's colonial past, social transformation, and contemporary cultural development. Consistently projecting history onto the screen, New Cinema creates a journey through Taiwan's past from the colonial era to the present, attempting to represent history in ways which will lead to the exploration and reconsideration of Taiwan's national and cultural identities. With the materials that sustain the national past, the New Cinema of the 1980s presents the very fabric of a national community, perpetuating the idea of the nation itself, ...