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Cultural Catchup

Taipei Fashion Week is just around the corner, and drag queen Taipei is here to tell you all about this semi-annual event! Unlike the big four fashion weeks in Western capitals like New York, London, Paris and Milan, which center around drumming up revenue for brands, Taipei Fashion Week brings tog

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Meet Charming Taiwan!
Your understanding of Taiwan perhaps may fall a little bit short of what you have believed. In order to break through the cultural blind spots of local Taiwanese and to help foreig
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What is Taiwan?
A few clues about this tiny island lying off the coast of the West Pacific: 1. Abundant, diverse natural landforms. 2. Indigenous peoples were repeatedly colonized by different po
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NPM Southern Branch × Taiwan Bar Ep. 3: The Tibetan Dragon Canon
Watch as Shaoxing the Monk and the Maitreya Bodhisattva save the world from demons in this educational, short film about the Tibetan Dragon Sutras, an iconic work in the National P
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NPM Southern Branch × Taiwan Bar Ep. 2: Maitreya Bodhisattva, Who Are You!?
In this next episode, the Maitreya Bodhisattva and his sidekick fight evil ghosts, or pretas, as they learn about the reasons behind the development of the rice trade between Siam
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NPM Southern Branch × Taiwan Bar Ep. 1: Maitreya Bodhisattva, Who Are You!?
The Maitreya Bodhisattva is out to save the world from a demon but first must recover from his amnesia. A study of the different types of foreign-influenced sculpting and carving s
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A New Vision of National Treasures: “Jadeite Cabbage”
The Jadeite Cabbage, which is almost identical to a real cabbage, is considered to be one of the most famous jade carvings in the world. It is also referred to as the most famous m
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A New Vision of National Treasures: “Meat-shaped Stone”
This video examines the famous meat-shaped stone that is one of the most popular and well-known artifacts in the National Palace Museum's collection. The flesh-shaped stone is a pi
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A New Vision of National Treasures: "Travelers Among Mountains and Streams"
"Travelers among Mountains and Streams" is one of the most important works in the National Palace Museum's collection and serves as a model of Chinese landscape painting from the S