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Culture Economy And Society

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Complete the sentence about Taiwanese cuisine with the correct year: In ______, the accession of Taiwan to the World Trade Organization forced Taiwanese farmers to compete with global markets.
Complete the sentence about Xiaolongbao with the correct year: Goubuli baozi are a brand of tangbao created in ______ by a restaurant in Tianjin.
Complete the sentence about Din Tai Fung with the correct year: With his Hakka wife, Lai Penmei, he founded a cooking oil retailer in ______.
Complete the sentence about Din Tai Fung with the correct year: The xiaolongbao eventually grew so popular that Din Tai Fung stopped selling oil altogether and became a full-fledged restaurant in ____…
Complete the sentence about Din Tai Fung with the correct year: The Taiwanese government hosted a Din Tai Fung showcase in Paris in ______ as a tool of cultural diplomacy.
Complete the sentence about Taiwanese Mandarin with the correct year: Japan annexed Taiwan in ______ and governed the island as a colony for the next 50 years, introducing the Japanese language in edu…
Complete the sentence about Taiwanese Mandarin with the correct year: Following the end of martial law in ______, language policy in the country underwent liberalization, but Mandarin remained the dom…
Complete the sentence about Traditional Chinese characters with the correct year: Traditional characters were recognized as the official script in Singapore until ______, when the government adopted s…
Complete the sentence about Zhuyin with the correct year: Bopomofo was added to the Unicode Standard in October ______ with the release of version 1.0.
Complete the sentence about Hakka Chinese with the correct year: The Guangdong Provincial Education Department created an official romanization of Moiyen in ______, one of four languages receiving thi…
Complete the sentence about Hakka Chinese with the correct year: In ______, China Central People's Broadcasting Station recruited the first Hakka broadcaster, Zhang Guohua, based on a radius of two ki…
Complete the sentence about Hakka Chinese with the correct year: In ______, Taiwan Broadcasting System established a Hakka satellite cable channel Hakka TV.
Complete the sentence about Mid-Autumn Festival with the correct year: In ______, the Chinese Communist Party called for the revival of the festival.
Complete the sentence about Chinese New Year with the correct year: The name was first proposed in ______ by Yuan Shikai, who was the interim president of the Republic of China.
Complete the sentence about Taoism in Taiwan with the correct year: When the Dutch occupied parts of southern Taiwan in ______, Dutch missionaries soon followed, introducing Protestantism to the indig…
Complete the sentence about Taoism in Taiwan with the correct year: In ______, the Manchu government ceded Taiwan to Japan as part of the terms of surrender following the First Sino-Japanese War.
Complete the sentence about Tzu Chi with the correct year: The foundation was founded on 14 April ______ by Cheng Yen, a Taiwanese Buddhist nun, as a Buddhist humanitarian organization, initially fund…
Complete the sentence about Tzu Chi with the correct year: In ______ the foundation established its first hospital in Hualien City.
Complete the sentence about Tzu Chi with the correct year: Tzu Chi's expanded its aid work to the People's Republic of China in ______ during the eastern China floods.
Complete the sentence about Temple of Heaven with the correct year: The present layout of the complex was largely formed by ______, following Qing-period reconstruction.
Complete the sentence about Temple of Heaven with the correct year: The Temple of Heaven is located in Dongcheng District, Beijing, and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
Complete the sentence about Taiwanese opera with the correct year: In ______, Taiwan Television was established and started broadcasting Taiwanese operas.
Complete the sentence about Taiwanese pop with the correct year: Sung by Chiu-chan and released in March ______, the song featured Taiwanese opera-style seven-character lines with a Western orchestral…
Complete the sentence about Taiwanese pop with the correct year: In March ______, a Hokkien-language promotional jingle recorded by Sun-sun to advertise the film The Peach Girl was released, and achie…
Complete the sentence about Taiwanese pop with the correct year: The situation worsened in ______ when the Pacific War broke out.
Complete the sentence about Jay Chou with the correct year: In ______, Chou established his own label and management company JVR Music.
Complete the sentence about Teresa Teng with the correct year: In ______, she was named by Time as one of the seven greatest female singers in the world.
Complete the sentence about Jolin Tsai with the correct year: Born in Hsinchuang, Taiwan, Tsai rose to prominence in ______ after winning a singing competition organized by MTV Mandarin.
Complete the sentence about Jolin Tsai with the correct year: In May ______, Tsai entered a singing competition co-organized by MTV Mandarin and Sony to fulfill the extracurricular activity requiremen…
Complete the sentence about Mayday with the correct year: As a result, they signed their first record deal with Rock Records in ______.
Complete the sentence about Mayday with the correct year: Not long after, on 28 August ______, Mayday held their first large-scale concert titled 168th Concert at the Taipei Municipal Stadium.
Complete the sentence about Mayday with the correct year: Between 12 and 26 August ______, Mayday held three concerts of their Stand Out tour in Taipei City, Changhua County, and Kaohsiung City in Tai…
Complete the sentence about Mayday with the correct year: In ______, Mayday produced their third movie soundtrack, this time for the movie Love of May.
Complete the sentence about Hou Hsiao-hsien with the correct year: Hou Hsiao-hsien was born in Meixian District, Guangdong in ______ to a Hakka family.
Complete the sentence about Hou Hsiao-hsien with the correct year: The rest of the family joined him in Taiwan the following year and in ______ he was made Supervisor of the Taipei Educational Bureau.
Complete the sentence about Edward Yang with the correct year: Yang was born in Shanghai, China, in ______, where his parents worked for a bank.
Complete the sentence about Edward Yang with the correct year: The film went on to be nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the ______ Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards.
Complete the sentence about Ang Lee with the correct year: Born in Pingtung County and raised in Hualien City, Taiwan, Lee graduated from what is now the National Taiwan University of Arts in ______.
Complete the sentence about Ang Lee with the correct year: After moving to the United States in ______, he attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and New York University.
Complete the sentence with the correct year: Lee went on to appear in all of Tsai's feature films as of ______.
Complete the sentence about Tsai Ming-liang with the correct year: In ______, Tsai released Days, which competed for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale film festival.
Complete the sentence about Wei Te-sheng with the correct year: Since ______, Wei had been trying to make the war epic Seediq Bale, but he could not raise the funds.
Complete the sentence about Wei Te-sheng with the correct year: In July ______, Wei read about a Yunlin postman who successfully delivered a piece of mail addressed in the old Japanese style.
Complete the sentence about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with the correct year: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a ______ wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling…
Complete the sentence about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with the correct year: The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 18 May ______, and was theatrically released in the United States on…
Complete the sentence about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with the correct year: In ______, Qing dynasty China, Li Mu Bai is a renowned Wudang swordsman, and his friend Yu Shu Lien heads a private se…
Complete the sentence about Life of Pi with the correct year: Life of Pi is a ______ adventure-drama film directed and produced by Ang Lee and written by David Magee.
Complete the sentence about Life of Pi with the correct year: Based on Yann Martel's ______ novel, it stars Suraj Sharma in his film debut, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu and Adil Hus…
Complete the sentence about Life of Pi with the correct year: Pi is born in ______, named Piscine Molitor Patel after Piscine Molitor, a famous French swimming pool.
Complete the sentence about Golden Horse Awards with the correct year: Since ______, a liberalization act allows for films from mainland China to enter the Awards.
Complete the sentence about Golden Melody Awards with the correct year: Starting in ______, the Golden Melody Awards for traditional music has been awarded by the National Center for Traditional Arts…
Complete the sentence about Cloud Gate Dance Theatre with the correct year: The other, Cloud Gate Dance School was founded in ______ with a view to making dance education more broadly available.
Complete the sentence about Lin Hwai-min with the correct year: In ______, his story entitled Cicada that narrated the theme of Taiwanese "Lost Generation" gained popularity amongst the younger genera…
Complete the sentence about Lin Hwai-min with the correct year: In ______, Lin left for the United States on a scholarship to study journalism at the University of Missouri.
Complete the sentence about Budaixi with the correct year: Since ______, Pili has been adding computer animations to their glove puppetry TV shows.
Complete the sentence about Taiwanese literature with the correct year: In ______, the first novel, Three Kings, written by a mainland Chinese writer, Ah Cheng, was openly published as such in Taiwan.
Complete the sentence about Bai Xianyong with the correct year: Pai took up lecturing in ______ as a professor of Chinese literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Complete the sentence about Bai Xianyong with the correct year: After his retirement from lecturing in ______, Pai's write transitioned to become more thematically cosmopolitan.
Complete the sentence about Bai Xianyong with the correct year: In ______, Pai enrolled at National Cheng Kung University as a hydraulic engineering major because he wanted to participate in the Three…
Complete the sentence about Wu Zhuoliu with the correct year: In ______, he visited Japan for the first time on a school trip that lasted 18 days—it was an eye opener.
Complete the sentence about Wu Ming-yi with the correct year: Wu was promoted to Associate Professor in ______ through publications of creative writing.
Complete the sentence about Chiung Yao with the correct year: Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, she moved to Taiwan with her family in ______ during the Chinese civil war.
Complete the sentence about Chiung Yao with the correct year: In ______, she moved with her family to Shanghai, where she published her first short story, The Poor Little Qing, on the Ta Kung Pao.
Complete the sentence about Chiung Yao with the correct year: In ______, she adopted the pen name Xin Ru and published another story.
Complete the sentence about Chiung Yao with the correct year: In ______, she married Ma Sen-ching, a graduate of the Foreign Languages Department at National Taiwan University.
Complete the sentence about Chiung Yao with the correct year: In ______, Chiung Yao published several short and medium-length stories in Crown magazine.
Complete the sentence about Taiwanese art with the correct year: Between 4000 BC and ______ BC people in what is now Hualien produced and traded valuable jade ornaments and jewelry.
Complete the sentence about National Taiwan Museum with the correct year: In ______, the new building of the museum in Taihoku New Park was inaugurated and became one of the major public buildings dur…
Complete the sentence about National Taiwan Museum with the correct year: In ______ it was used to house the First Cultural Pavilion at The Taiwan Exposition: In Commemoration of the First Forty Years…
Complete the sentence about National Taiwan Museum with the correct year: The Council for Cultural Affairs started a project in ______ to combine the National Taiwan Museum with nearby historical site…
Complete the sentence about Taipei Fine Arts Museum with the correct year: In ______, following the central government's decision enhance the cultural life of city, the Taipei Municipal Government emb…
Complete the sentence about Taipei Fine Arts Museum with the correct year: In ______ the largest ever Taipei Biennial was held under the title "The Quest for Identity", involving 110 artists and all f…
Complete the sentence about Taipei Fine Arts Museum with the correct year: Since ______, the Taichung National Museum of Arts organizes a participation at Venice's architecture biennial.
Complete the sentence about Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei with the correct year: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei opened on 27 May ______ within the building, the first museum in Taiwan to b…
Complete the sentence about Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei with the correct year: In ______, it organized a solo show of Taiwanese artist Yang Maolin as a pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Complete the sentence about Foxconn with the correct year: Foxconn named Young Liu its new chairman after the retirement of founder Terry Gou, effective on 1 July ______.
Complete the sentence about Foxconn with the correct year: Terry Gou established Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. as an electrical components manufacturer in ______ in Taipei, Taiwan.
Complete the sentence about Foxconn with the correct year: Foxconn's first manufacturing plant in China opened in Longhua Town, Shenzhen, in ______.
Complete the sentence about Acer Inc. with the correct year: In ______, the company sold its manufacturing units BenQ and Wistron in order to focus resources on design and sales.
Complete the sentence about Asus with the correct year: Since ______, the company's tagline has been In Search of Incredible.
Complete the sentence about Asus with the correct year: Asus was founded in Taipei in ______ by Tzu-Hsien Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M.T.
Complete the sentence about Asus with the correct year: In September ______, Asus released the first PhysX accelerator card.
Complete the sentence about MediaTek with the correct year: The revenue growth was however partly due to revenue recognition from the acquisition of MStar which became effective at the beginning of __…
Complete the sentence about Chunghwa Telecom with the correct year: Chunghwa Telecom was founded as a company on June 15, ______ as part of the government's privatization efforts.
Complete the sentence about Chunghwa Telecom with the correct year: In August ______, Chunghwa Telecom became a privatized company, as the Taiwan government's ownership was reduced to less than 50%.
Complete the sentence about Chunghwa Telecom with the correct year: On July 1, ______, the "Chunghwa Telecom Ordinance" was enacted under an amendment of the "Telecommunications Act", which formally e…
Complete the sentence about Evergreen Marine with the correct year: A second vessel was added in ______, and used on Middle East services.
Complete the sentence about Evergreen Marine with the correct year: Evergreen Marine began its first circumnavigation shipping services in ______.
Complete the sentence about EVA Air with the correct year: Upon receipt of regulatory approval, EVA Airways Corporation was formally established in March ______.
Complete the sentence about China Airlines with the correct year: With a fleet of two PBY Amphibians, China Airlines was established on December 16, ______, with its shares completely held by the Repu…
Complete the sentence about China Airlines with the correct year: In October ______, a flight from Taipei to Hualien became the airline's first domestic service.
Complete the sentence about China Airlines with the correct year: With the airline's Boeing 707 aircraft, trans-Pacific flights to San Francisco via Tokyo were initiated on February 2, ______.
Complete the sentence about Giant Manufacturing with the correct year: In ______, Gaastra sold his shares back, and Giant became a full shareholder of Giant Europe.
Complete the sentence about Giant Manufacturing with the correct year: COVID-19's effect on the bicycle industry is evinced by a 55% increase in Giant's revenue in the first quarter of ______.
Complete the sentence about Giant Manufacturing with the correct year: In ______, Giant established their Mosh BMX division with the help of Redline Bicycles founder Linn Kastan and racer Jason Richar…
Complete the sentence about Merida Bikes with the correct year: After Tseng's death in January ______, his son Michael Tseng became the company's president.
Complete the sentence about Merida Bikes with the correct year: After making bicycles as an original equipment manufacturer for numerous other brands, the company established its own brand, Merida, in…
Complete the sentence about Merida Bikes with the correct year: In ______, Merida invested $7 million to renovate its 35-year-old factory in Taichung, without halting production.
Complete the sentence about Formosa Plastics Group with the correct year: Since its founding in ______, the non-profit hospital has expanded to 5 cities in Taiwan.
Complete the sentence about Formosa Plastics Group with the correct year: In ______, the Linkou branch undertook the first liver transplant operation in Asia.

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