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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA006034/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- On the date of this recording in 2013, and since May 2012, Dr. Lung Ying-tai has served as Taiwan's first Minister of Culture. Part of her mission is to promote sustainable peace across the Taiwan Strait through cultural exchanges. In this informal gather, Minister Lung takes questions from the audience and shares her views on cultural issues. ( en )
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- Biographical Information: Dr. Lung Ying-tai, Taiwan's Minister of Culture, is a celebrated writer, literary critic and public intellectual. She is one of the most read authors in the Chinese-speaking world. Having written 30 books, her critical essays are often published simultaneously in Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Guangzhou and New York City. Lung's 2009 nonfiction work Big River Big Sea- Untold Stories of 1949, about the Chinese Civil War, sold half a million copies in the Chinese-speaking world. Although banned in the mainland, pirated copies of the book were hugely popular in the black market. Since May 2012, Lung has served as Taiwan's first Minister of Culture.
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- Recorded on 18 May 2016 at an event sponsored by the SOAS China Institute - the 3rd Annual SOAS China Institute China Debate
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Gracie, Carrie : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/184598931
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- VIAF (name authority) : Mittler, Barbara, 1968- : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/27312297
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- VIAF (name authority) : Orr, Gordon : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/41310022
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Tang, David, 1954- : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/80646061
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- SOAS University of London
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- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
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