Taiwan 80: The Era of the Emergence of Kua Domain

The cultural spirit of Taiwan’s 1980s runs in everyone’s blood

Let’s imagine Taiwan’s “avant-garde” with various assembled self-enlightenment techniques

Starting from 80 keywords, you can appreciate Taiwan’s turbulent cultural modeling movement in the 1980s.

See how the creators enlighten themselves, accumulate and pass on trendy knowledge, work together to create with limited resources, and constantly experiment to create an aesthetic aura that is created in Taiwan.

The book spans five major fields: ideological publishing, visual arts, theater, moving images and literature:

18 groups of keywords, using knowledge to assemble your imagination of the world

80 specially selected keywords to restore the ecological environment of Taiwan’s literature and art

161 pictures and photos, directly showing the works of avant-garde expression.

An index of 204 people’s names, tracing the footsteps of people from across different domains throughout the book

364 basic keywords to create a concentric circle map of Taiwan’s 80 cross-regions

This book is a preliminary description of the topography of Taiwan's emotional will in the 1980s. It exemplifies more nodes that go back to social relations and historical correlations, and attempts to highlight how the 1980s simultaneously showed a significant impact on Taiwan as a whole. The importance and irreplaceability of development and the convergence of Taiwanese characteristics. This "pre-globalization" merges with the "pre-information society" and gives rise to various collaborations, experiments, integrations and ruptures, as well as the irreplaceability of passionate individual initiative.

A collection of works to learn about Taiwan’s cultural craze of the 1980s! From the keywords added in the cross-field keyword pool and keyword group descriptions, the names, teams, works, exhibition plans, events, and media were distinguished. Based on the 364 keywords, concentric circle stacking on the book jacket poster was carried out. Layer diagrams were drawn, and 80 keywords with the highest degree of intersection or cross-field representation were selected for entry writing and research.

From this, through collaboration and innovative experiments among people, we re-outline the appearance of different fields in Taiwan in the 1980s, and understand the "cross-field people" behind the social and cultural dynamics of that era.