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This paper investigates how Taiwan is studied in the research of us-based speech communication and journalism. Specifically, Taiwan-related journal articles published by major us-based communication and journalism associations are selected and analysed in terms of their numbers, authorship, and themes. The results indicate that Taiwan studies is a marginalised subject in speech communication and journalism. However, there has been an increasing research interest in Taiwan in the last two decades. These journal articles also record the role of Taiwan in Cold War history, the legacy of 'Free China', and the establishment of two Chinese communication associations in the United States. They explain why the representation of Taiwan is often ambivalent in a 'cultural China' framework in speech communication and journalism. This investigation aims to begin a conversation about how speech communication and journalism research can be more engaged in Taiwan studies, and how research on Taiwan can be more integrated into these two disciplines.

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The controversy caused by the music video Foreigner represents a tug of war between the western-dominated global value system and the culturally situated local pride. The controversy stems from the symbolic meaning of the music group, Nine One One. The rise of Nine One One is a result of the convergence of three forces: the localization of Taiwanese hip hop culture; the development of the digital music production business; the ongoing evolution of the taike concept and Taiwanese consciousness. This personal response article juxtaposes an American female's criticism of the music video as racist and Taiwanese netizens' reactions against the backdrop of a growing taike culture in order to present and question the hegemonic interpretation of the controversy. I will argue that the often-unnoticed discrimination held by Taipei cultural elites towards other Taiwanese citizens plays a key role in understanding the controversy.

"The desire of the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong to exercise democratic self-rule, fully embody their local identities, and become global citizens challenges the politics between China and the United States. Taking a culture-centered approach to the communicative process of "glocalized resistance" in an era of rising nationalisms, the essays in this volume address topics ranging from the rhetoric of political leaders and the language games of mass protesters on social media to resistant street performance. These chapters showcase the geocultural identity-in-the-making of the Taiwanese and Hong Kong people and offer insights into societies under immanent threats"--

The younger generation of Taiwanese do not merely consume Japanese popular culture as a 'foreign' product; they have integrated Japanese cultural elements into many aspects of Taiwan's local cultural creations as a Taiwan–Japan hybrid form. One example of this is that the majority of Taiwanese visual artists follow the Japanese manga format, aesthetics and grammar when they create their own work. In this article, we examine trends of moe anthropomorphism in manga, a method that personifies animals, objects, cities and natural phenomena as cute human characters. Using a cultural studies framework, we trace how Japanese moe anthropomorphism helps Taiwanese visual artists and local governments to promote domestic tourism and further individuals' desire to get to know Taiwan. The spokes-character, Sakura Shrimp, serves as an example to illustrate the trend, the purpose and the readers' responses to this new way of local tourism marketing.