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  Taiwanese localization movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Localization or Taiwanization (Chinese: 本土化; pinyin: Běntǔ huà; Pe̍h-oē-jī: pún-thó͘-hòa) is a political term used within Taiwan to emphasize the importance of Taiwan's culture rather than to regard Taiwanese as solely an appendage of China.
The localization movement has been expressed in forms such as the use of dialect in the broadcast media and entire channels devoted to aboriginal and Hakka affairs.
On the mainland, the PRC government has officially adopted a relatively neutral policy on Taiwanese localization movement and does not consider the localization movement to be either a violation of its One China Policy or equivalent to the independence movement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taiwanese_localization_movement   (886 words)

  
 Lee Teng-hui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lee—one of only four Taiwanese students in his high school class—graduated with honors and was given a scholarship to Japan's Kyoto Imperial University.
The Taiwanese localization movement has its roots in the home rule groups founded during the Japanese era and sought to put emphasis on Taiwan as the center of people's lives as opposed Mainland China or Japan.
This is to be put in context with the fact that many Taiwanese citizens nowadays hold a rather positive view of Japan's occupation, as a time that has brought development and progress to the island in spite of the autocratic rule.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lee_Teng-hui   (2601 words)

  
 Lee Teng-hui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Lee Teng-hui (Chinese: 李登輝; Taiwanese Romanization: Lí Teng-hui; pinyin: Lǐ Dēnghuī; born January 15, 1923) is a politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Lee—one of only four Taiwanese students in his high school class—graduated with honors and was given a scholarship to Japan's prestigious Kyoto Imperial University.
The Taiwanese localisation movement has its roots in the home rule groups founded during the Japanese era and sought to put emphasis on Taiwan as the center of people's lives as opposed Mainland China or Japan.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Lee_Teng-hui   (1615 words)

  
 Taiwanese Translation Services - Translators English/Taiwanese
Taiwanese is sometimes regarded as a dialect of the wider Chinese language.
Taiwanese is considered a native language of the subethnic group known as Holo or Hoklo.
Though Taiwanese is based on Mandarin as on the mainland, it is written in Traditional Chinese while Mandarin Chinese on the mainland is written in Simplified Chinese.
www.greentranslations.com /taiwanese-translation.html   (251 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
This culminated in a series of severe clashes between the ROC administration and "native" Taiwanese, in turn leading to the bloody 228 incident and the reign of white terror.
Taiwanese culture also has influenced the West: Bubble tea and milk tea are popular drinks readily available around city centers in Europe, Canada and the United States.
The Taiwanese localization movement continues to be a major driver of Taiwanese culture, as a reaction against both the previous repression by the previously Kuomintang-controlled government and the hostility of the PRC.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Taiwan   (5213 words)

  
 New Left Review - Chu Tien-Hsin et al: Tensions in Taiwan
Taiwanese artists, activists and intellectuals organize against the fanning of ethnic differences by DPP Greens and KMT Blues during the island’s 2004 election.
The killings of the local population by kmt soldiers and police after the events of February 28, 1947 were for long a deep wound in memory.
Generally speaking, if Taiwanese society wants to move forward, it would be reasonable to think that it should not depend so much on the too young or too old, the generations that point either to a future that is still some way off, or to a past that has now already receded.
newleftreview.org /A2516   (9995 words)

  
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The gist of the New Taiwanese ideology is in fact a concerted effort to diminish the potential conflicts emanating from the differing provincial origins among the Taiwanese residents.
Although the instrumentalism of the "New Taiwanese" in the election campaigns is obvious, the ultimate goal is to escape the status of "periphery" under the illusion of a "greater China" conceptualization, and to reaffirm Taiwan's identity as the first given priority.
Local roots may serve as exclusive criteria of political correctness; secondly, policies of promoting economic interaction with mainland China could easily be regarded as pro-Beijing and anti-Taipei.
taiwansecurity.org /TS/2002/JTRF-Leng-0102.htm   (4060 words)

  
 Edge Translation
Taiwanese is a dialect of Min Nan spoken in Taiwan.
Taiwanese does not have a Strong written tradition and until the late 19th century, Taiwanese speakers wrote solely in Literary Chinese.
Taiwanese speakers most commonly write in vernacular Chinese, which uses the vocabulary and grammar of Mandarin, though Chinese characters are also used to represent spoken Taiwanese in writing.
www.edgetranslation.net /taiwanese1.htm   (211 words)

  
 Spoken Chinese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In southern China where the difference between Standard Mandarin and the local dialect is particularly pronounced, well-educated Chinese are generally fluent in Standard Mandarin, and most people have at least a good passive knowledge of it, in addition to being native speakers of the local dialect.
The local dialect (be it nonstandard Mandarin or non-Mandarin altogether) is generally considered more intimate and is used among close family members and friends and in everyday conversation within the local area.
On the other hand, in the Republic of China on Taiwan, the government had a policy until the mid-1980s of promoting Standard Mandarin as high-status and the local languages—Taiwanese and Hakka—as low-status, a situation which caused much resentment and resulted in considerable backlash in the 1990s, manifested in the Taiwanese localization movement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_spoken_language   (3202 words)

  
 Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
Recent campaigning has focused largely on "localization", a devotion to Taiwanese identity, passion for the island and sensitive to issues such as language - Mandarin, Min-nan and Hakka are all recognized as the official languages of Taiwan, however, many candidates refrain from speaking Mandarin, because it is considered foreign and tied to the mainland.
Localization also means that many candidates distance themselves from anything related to the mainland, seen as by many native Taiwanese as a hostile and irrelevant neighbor, by some as a menacing Big Brother.
Protecting the interests of the native Taiwanese has in itself, raised debates, such as whether to teach in the native Taiwanese mother tongue, Min-nan and Hakka, as opposed to Chinese Mandarin; some candidates in appealing to the "native" Taiwan vote go out of their way not to speak Mandarin.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FC20Ad04.html   (1235 words)

  
 Travel Taiwan - Hotels and Travel Info
More than 18 million, the "native" Taiwanese are descendants of Chinese who migrated from Fujian and Guangdong Provinces on the mainland, primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Taiwanese culture also has influenced the West: Bubble tea is a popular drink readily available around city centers in Europe, Canada and the United States.
On top of this, the Taiwanese dollar has been sliding in value over the past five years, making it more difficult for foreigners to send money home at the end of the month.
www.traveltaiwanplus.com   (1288 words)

  
 Democratization and Localization in Taiwan
Briefly, the situation is this: In 1949, the Republic of China government, led by the Nationalist party, retreated to Taiwan as a last stand in the war against the communists.
With the existence of two groups came two political ideologies- the Taiwanese tend to want a distinct Taiwan, independent from the Mainland, and the Mainlanders want harmonious coexistence if not reintegration with the mainland.
As a result, there are pushes being made to favor the taiwanese geography and history in schooling and language instead of simply mainland chinese geography and history.
homepage.mac.com /kapn_kamikaze/B1335313108/C928352536/E800544159   (341 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives
China's greatest enemy is Taiwanese independence, and, at least in the minds of its leaders, democracy and localization are synonymous with independence.
But as many local officials in the south have pointed out, the consensus is that the future of Taiwan lies in the hands of the majority of Taiwanese people and there is no market for a "Greater China" ideology.
Although the Taiwanese people are divided into the green and blue camps during elections, they are actually united when fighting against Chinese hegemony.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/edit/archives/2004/09/05/2003201714/print   (890 words)

  
 Chi-she Li MMLA 2001 (printable)
The contemporary response to global changes with the Taiwanese consciousness cannot be adequately explained by the classical account of cultural nationalism, and a new theoretical vocabulary is in demand to comprehend the discourse of localization in Taiwan9.
The rise of Taiwanese consciousness is the key to understanding Tzu's "Old Capital." You in the novella experiences this historical change in Taiwan, known as "localization," in terms of the transition from the cultural nationalism of Great China to the phenomenon of autochthony in Taiwan.
In spite of her cultural conservatism, the apocalyptic ending of the novella registers a denial of the local reconstructed in response to globalization as seen in Taipei and an aesthetic rendition of the violence of globalization, which erases history and simultaneously produces prolifically mere images of the local and history.
www.cwru.edu /affil/sce/Texts_2001/Liptr.html   (9297 words)

  
 OhioLINK ETD: Kuo, Chien-hua
The text is situated in two particular contexts: first, the current discourse of localization in Taiwan, in which the development of Taiwanese consciousness is reviewed, and second, the related publishing context is examined.
That is, a contemporary visual language is adopted in presenting local culture to attract today’s young readers.
This constructed representation can be seen as a strategy for recalling and reinstalling the local cultures that had been oppressed and missed in the Kuomintang era.
www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?osu1124153596   (392 words)

  
 Information Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office
The editors of this book have had to struggle first with the translation of the term "bentuhua" into English, which could mean "localization" "indigenization" or "Taiwanization." Adopting the correct equivalent in English was difficult for the authors so they used the translation most appropriate to each context.
"In Taiwan, indigenization has functioned as a type of nationalism that champions the legitimacy of a distinct Taiwanese identity, the character and content of which should be determined by the Taiwanese people," John Makeham says in the introduction to the study of the phenomenon of identity search in the nation of 23 million people.
Author A-chin Hsiau prefers to call it "indigenization" because he says the term "bentuhua" means that the uniqueness of Taiwanese society, culture and history should be appreciated and interpreted from the viewpoints of the Taiwanese themselves and not from outsiders.
www.taipei.org /book/no048/taiwan.html   (711 words)

  
 Taiwan at Caribbean Topfunwebsites
Speaking Taiwanese under the Taiwan localization movement movement has become an emblem of expressing Taiwanese identity and the language has undergone a resurgence since the early 1990's.
The Taiwanese localization movement continues to be a major driver of Taiwanese culture, both as a reaction against the previous repression of Taiwanese culture by the previously Kuomintang controlled government and against the hostility of the PRC.
A majority of the Taiwanese population are religious believers, most of whom identify themselves as Buddhists or Taoists.
www.topfunwebsites.com /grenada/taiwan.html   (2730 words)

  
 Taiwan - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
However, due to the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communists, the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty between Japan and the Allies failed to name the recipient of Taiwan's sovereignty.
This group excludes almost all Taiwanese, including the Mainlanders, except recent immigrants from mainland China, such as those made Republic of China citizens through marriage.
The other 2 percent of Taiwan's population, numbering about 440,000, are the Taiwanese aborigines (原住民; yuánzhùmín; lit.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/t/a/i/Taiwan.html   (3997 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
In both Chen's terms the DPP and the Taiwanese independence leaning Pan-Green Coalition failed to secure a majority of seats in the legislature, losing to the KMT and the pro-eventual unification leaning Pan-Blue Coalition, but secured a majority in the National Assembly elections in 2005.
However, to better reflect the realities of Taiwan, the two largest municipalities of Taiwan, Taipei and Kaohsiung were elevated as central municipalities, the same level as province under direct national oversight, and more recently, the functions of the Taiwan and Fukien provincial governments have been largely redistributed between the national government and county governments.
Mandarin is the primary language of instruction in schools, having been forced on local Taiwanese since the coming of the Nationalists; however, most spoken media is split between Mandarin and Taiwanese.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Republic_of_China   (4720 words)

  
 The Jamestown Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Lee Teng-hui pushed a strategy of "localization" (or "Taiwan First") aimed at reorganizing the KMT into a renascent and distinctly Taiwanese political party that would shake off all identification with China.
The Taiwanese didn't like him because he was too much the Mainlander, and vice versa.
The other side of the coin is that Hok-lo Taiwanese moves toward independence are restrained by the uneasiness of the Hakka, mainlanders and Aborigines.
www.jamestown.org /email-to-friend.php?article_id=4559   (1168 words)

  
 Localization and Business Language Translation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Localization is the method of combining language and technology to produce a product that can cross cultural and language barriers.
Localization and web technologies are essential to cater to native languages.
Localization can be combined with other technologies or added to web sites to expand the customer base.
blog.languagetranslation.com /public/blog/114456?ref=technorati   (2399 words)

  
 Taiwan (ROC) - Republic of China
Another curiousity of the Taiwanese system is due to historical artifact--because Taiwan was previously dominated by strong-man single party politics, real power in the system shifted from one position to another, depending on what position was currently occupied by the leader of the state (Chiang Kai-shek and later his son, Chiang Ching-kuo).
The status of Taiwanese culture is a subject of debate due to identity politics.
Taiwanese culture also has influenced the West: Bubble tea and milk tea are popular drinks readily available around city centers in Europe and North America.
www.naturemagics.com /world-guide/taiwan.shtm   (6891 words)

  
 Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
In the unconstitutional 2000 local elections on Taiwan for national offices, after losing the Guomindang, or GMD (in Taiwan known as the Kuomintang, or KMT) nomination for president to then-vice president Lien Chan, James Soong ran as an independent.
Lee's primary motivation was to stop the GMD from moving away from his ideas of Taiwanese separatism and from shifting the party toward peaceful political accommodation with the CCP.
The Taiwanese localization movement has its roots in the home-rule groups founded during Japanese occupation, and they have emphasized Taiwan as the center of political deliberation, as opposed to China proper.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FA31Ad04.html   (3489 words)

  
 Title page for etd-0828101-081530
The data of survey object is based on the Booklet of Taiwanese company at the area of Su-Chou and Sha-Man, China.
There is not significant differences between the localized ratio of higher level management and the localized ratio of basic level management;
Interdependence with local area positively affects the financial and non-financial performance.
etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw /ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0828101-081530   (407 words)

  
 Customer Elements within Glocalization
Therefore, after sporadic controversies over Dell’s use of the Chinese and Taiwanese flags, Dell headquarters decided in Spring 2005 to remove all flag displays from its Asia-Pacific websites (ironically, the exception was Dell Japan, which retained its own flag display since it is considered a separate Asian segment).
When disputes arise over localization requirements, the best course of action is to measure and document market penetration targets and the necessity of localizing each trait in relation to the global brand valuation.
After a series of inquiries from the Dell GBM team on forecasted website traffic increases based on this local color requirement, the South American colleague finally admitted that he put forth "Fusa" solely because it was his favorite color.
www.translationdirectory.com /article979.htm   (2303 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
One is from the perspective of cultural homogeneity vs. heterogeneity, to see how gender meanings and women's differences have been mobilized differently or similarly in the themes of locality and globality in the sampled TV commercials.
The other direction is from the perspective of cultural hybridity, to see how the global-local nexus, or the re-invention of the local identity are established in these commercials, through the re-organization of the signs of gender, ethnicity, class, the foreign and the local, in which new meanings may be produced.
Like other Taiwanese women in my generation, I am fond of Japanese popular culture (the trendy dramas, the fashion, the mengas and the animations), of Western and Taiwanese pop music, and love movies.
tw-women.formosa.org /wintercamp/2003/chen.html   (670 words)

  
 LinguaBridge - Welcome!
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Our style and ambiance is matched by a standard of excellence in translation and project management that has brought us worldwide acclaim.
Our teams have 15+ years combined experience in the field of localization.
www.linguabridge.com   (82 words)

  
 Taiwan, Business, News, Events, Jobs, Employment, Careers, Products, Taiwanese, Taiwan, TaiwaneseCareers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Jensen Localization - specializes in the localization of software and technical documentation, e-commerce web sites, and site management.
Satellite Station - offers localization and translation services, desktop publishing, and terminology management from native Japanese and Chinese speakers.
Transposia - provides localized multimedia titles for children in Dutch and French.
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