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The Burning Age: Independent Culture, Young Generations and Public Spirit
The Burning Age: Independent Culture, Young Generations and Public Spirit
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From independent music, independent bookstores, new media, new movies, cultural policies, from Taiwan's little lucky generation, to Hong Kong's new independent generation, to China's Little Pink, this book is an in-depth observation and sharp reflection on cultural phenomena and social trends in the three places across the Taiwan Strait.
Special inclusions include a conversation with Jia Zhangke about the spirit of independence, a conversation with Hou Hsiao-hsien about the future of film, and a conversation with Lin Hwai-min about the deepening of art.The influential critic Zhang Tiezhi’s first collection of cultural criticism,
Leads readers to observe and think about important cultural phenomena and social trends in the three places across the Taiwan Strait──
In the past few years, independent culture, the youth generation, and public spirit have sparked a fiery and violent fire in Taiwan and Hong Kong: the collision and friction between old and new models, between new and old imaginations, and between old and new resources and power have created a raging Flame, this is our "burning age".
"The Burning Age" depicts several important trends in current Taiwanese culture: independent culture, youth generation and public spirit. These forces have not only changed the connotation of contemporary Taiwanese culture and the appearance of the cultural and creative industry, but also impacted the existing political landscape and Economic models, the former includes everything from Sunflower to the 2016 election, and the latter includes the so-called "lifestyle" industry or the so-called "little luck" industry that has emerged in recent years. In this book, we not only dismantle and criticize, but also reconstruct and think about it, and reimagine the culture of our time.
Culture is thought, value, aesthetics, and life. It is the soul of the country, determines the spirit and height of the nation, and defines its position on the world map. Fifty observations of contemporary culture in Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong allow us to reimagine another possibility.
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