This research explored how and in what ways early childhood and fatherhood are constructed in Taiwanese father-run baby blogs. Nowadays, many parents use the internet to record and share their experiences of being (and becoming) parents. There is a growing body of literature on mothers on the internet, but the subjects of fathers on the internet and the child as recorded by the parents are both under-explored. This research selected three public Taiwanese baby blogs to study. All of the blogs were being run by new fathers and all were named (entitled) using the child's name or nickname. The entries and interactions within these blogs up until the blogged children turned three years old were observed. The blog entries and the interactions within them were treated as public texts, and a qualitative method suitable for analysing different forms of blog contents was developed. In relation to the new doing of fathering - blogging - the interactive nature of the internet and its function of creating and strengthening the identity were not obvious in this research. Although these blogs seemed to be isolated from other online communities, one of the studied cases provides us with an example of how the blog and the participants' off-line activities enrich each other. The findings of this research also suggest that these public presentations of family life have the purpose of displaying family, in order to confirm the family relationship with their readers and especially with the recorded child in the future. This displaying provided us with the three fathers' versions of fatherhood. It was found that the fatherhood being constructed in these blogs is closer to the old version of a good father. The father's role still appeared as that of supporter of the mother, who was still seen as shouldering the main responsibility for child raising. However, from an analysis of the process and the descriptions of the decision making displayed in these blogs, this research suggests that the supporter (father) - leader (mother) relationship (Sanchez & Thomson, 1997; S. Williams, 2008) should be understood as a relationship between the project director (father), who oversees the project of child raising, and the project manager (mother), who has to get the project done. Although their child-raising record showed the characteristics of intensive parenting, because of this director-manager relationship, the intensive parenting shown by the father should in fact be seen as a type of intensive mothering. With regard to the displayed child, it was found that the Taiwanese child is surveyed and defined (normal or abnormal) by the state, the medical system, and parents' daily practices. The child is also nurtured with traditional gender stereotypes and traditional aspirations (to be filially obedient) in mind. In the nurturing process, the importance of education is highlighted and the child is taken to participate in competitive activities from under one year old. It was concluded that, overall, the fatherhoods and childhoods found in this research join forces in constructing and confirming (old) Taiwanese norms relating to fathers and to the 'normal' and competitive child. Since the children in this research were represented by the father and lacked agency, it is suggested that there is a pressing need for further research into the subsequent experience of these once-displayed-in-public children, that will give us a better understanding of the practice of sharing one's child(ren)'s information online.

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The emphasis of this research is on the social, economic, and cultural factors generating the New Taiwan Cinema between 1982 to 1986. The study consists of four chapters. Chapter I introduces the background and parameters of the topic. Chapter II discusses the factors which nurtured the rise of New Taiwan Cinema. It also provides historical background information on Taiwanese films. Chapter III discusses the definition and characteristics of New Taiwan Cinema and its major filmmakers and films. Chapter IV focuses on the issue of the end of New Taiwan Cinema. This chapter also covers the general situation of the Taiwanese film industry after 1986.

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Counterfeiting and piracy are serious problems in Taiwan. Recent changes in local laws and enforcement policies have sought to curb the problem, but these actions have failed to account for the inherent differences in the perceptions among young Taiwanese persons of purchase and/or consumption of counterfeit or pirated goods. Previous research had indicated that the primary drivers in this market of purchase intention for these products are education, ethicality, legality, quality, face consciousness, perceived harm to society, and the utility derived from consumption. The primary aims of this research were to compare and contrast these perceptions among undergraduate students in Taiwan using two independent surveys and to attempt to explain the variance in purchase intention that can be attributed to six of the seven drivers (utility excluded). While purchase intention and perceptions regarding some kinds of societal harm were found to be statistically equal, significant differences were discovered between students¡¦ attitudes toward counterfeiting versus piracy with regard to ethicality, legality, and the impact of these activities on innovation and the Taiwan economy. Additionally, there were marked differences between the amounts of variance in purchase intention explained by the six drivers and between the specific correlations of these drivers. Counterfeit goods¡¦ purchase intention correlated significantly with only three of the drivers, while pirated goods¡¦ purchase intention correlated with five, and with only partial overlap between the two. The findings of this study are thus concluded to be significant for the further development of research into the two areas.

Wu-Hsiung Chen¡]b.1945-¡^is a Kaohsiung local composer. Although he never received any formal music education, he dedicates himself to creating Taiwanese songs. Chen started to compose when he was in his twenties. His early works were piano variations of Taiwanese folksongs. Several years later, he tried to write choral arrangements of Taiwanese folksongs, and he also found the Red Clogs Choir. In recent years, Chen cooperates with many Taiwanese local poets to create nearly one hundred choral songs. Chen hopes his songs could touch the local people¡¦s hearts and bring the awareness of Taiwanese language and culture. Chen emphasized, ¡§If the lyrics cannot inspire me, I will not be able to compose.¡¨ Songs are the artistic extension of the poems. The author of this paper has been the conductor of Red Clogs Choir for ten years and worked with the composer since young. She synthesizes the composer¡¦s creative motives, the lyric writers¡¦ reactions with the musical works, and the audience¡¦s response and chooses eight representative songs written by eight different poets among Chen¡¦s numerous Taiwanese choral songs. The first song, ¡§Four Seasons, Four Sentences¡¨, is a joyful panegyric on the four seasons in Taiwan. The second song, ¡§Spring Dream¡¨, strongly expresses a young man¡¦s yearning for love. The third song, ¡§Earthquake¡¨, emphasizes Taiwanese strong personality no matter how bad they have suffered from severe earthquakes. The fourth song, ¡§Beloved Four-leaved Clover¡¨, expresses the anticipation that four main ethnic groups of Taiwan can respect, and benefit from, one another and unite together as a clover. The fifth song, ¡§Rats¡¨, vividly portrays the old Taiwanese saying: Raise rats to bite your own sacks (which mean being betrayed by those whom you brought up). The sixth song, ¡§Night Scenery of Hsitzu Bay¡¨, represents the beautiful night view at Hsitzu Bay. The seventh song ¡§Taxi¡¨ depicts the lives of hard-working taxi drivers. Finally, the last song, ¡§Taiwan, My Country¡¨, speaks of Taiwanese people¡¦s praise and warm feelings for this island. An obvious song-writing style can be found in these eight choral works. There is always a major melody in each song which matches the rhymes of the text. Chen likes to use jumping intervals with rhythmic change when he wants to display passionate, enthusiastic, heroic or spirited feelings. The harmony is generally in traditional Western style. Chen often uses syncopated rhythms to emphasize some lyrics and sometimes adds semitones to change the music color. He likes to use the piano accompaniment. It brings out the atmosphere, provides harmony, and helps the chorus to maintain its Taiwanese rhymes and poetic expressions. This paper consists of six parts: the preface, Wu-Hsiung Chen¡¦s life, Chen¡¦s works, Eight Taiwanese choral songs, the characteristics of Chen¡¦s songs, and the conclusion.

The methodology applied to the study is based on mass data collected from secondary market. Through analyzing four aspects which include the developing situation of foreign banks in Mainland China (including case study of two foreign banks),the general situation of target customers (Taiwanese Companies) for Taiwanese banks, the financial contact between Taiwanese Banks and Mainland China (including the standpoints of primary Taiwanese Banks about how to enter China market), and the regulations of Cross Strait governments, referring to theses about how Taiwanese Banks getting into Mainland China, and also combing the SWOT analysis of Taiwanese banks, the study proposes the suggestions about target market, market position, distribution strategy, product and service strategy, and the direction of business cooperation which hopefully can be referable for the entry strategy of Taiwanese Banks in Mainland China.

This thesis attempt to uncover the qualitative different ways that Taiwanese workers experienced health. Workers' health is important to a country's economic, cultural and social development. Both Taiwanese government and health professionals acknowledgement the importance of health. A considerable amount of literature has been released over the past two decades in Taiwan around related issues. Most published research has reported investigation into occupational disease diagnosis, disease prevention, safety behaviours and health-related intervention for behaviour change. None has addressed the health experiences of workers. To address this gap in knowledge and literature, phenomenographic research has been completed to identify and describe the ways in which Taiwanese workers in an industrial complex experience health. In-depth interview was undertaken with eighteen participants. The interview was tape-recorded and then transcribed verbatim. Data was collected in Mandarin or Taiwanese and analysed in Chinese. This avoids the loss or change of original meaning during the translation process. Significant quotations were then translated to English by the principal researcher. Discussions between the researcher and supervisor, and between researcher and another native English speaker who is be able to read Chinese were continuous through the analysis process to ensure that the English translation is as close possible as to the original meaning. The outcomes of the research have been the identification of five conceptions of health which together represent understanding of the experience and the meaning of health. The five distinct conceptions are: health is absence of disease; health is a holistic view of the body function; health is a reward of doing 'good' deeds; health as living a healthy lifestyle; and health as a consequence of stress management. All conceptions combined constitute an outcome space that represents the referential and structural relationship between conceptions. The research outcomes contribute to an understanding of how a group of Taiwanese workers were aware of their health experience and have significant implications for health professionals in developing and conducting health intervention, for policy makers in planning occupational health policies, for describing health with a cultural context and for educators of health professionals. Furthermore, this research provides the basis for further research into specific aspects of health and its meaning in different work settings.

Thesis (D. Miss.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1994. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-113).