Best Feature Film
Kung Fu Hustle (
Best Director
Stephen Chow (
Best Leading Actor
Aaron Kwok (
Best Leading Actress
Shu Qi (
Best Supporting Actor
Anthony Wong (
Best Supporting Actress
Yuen Qiu (
Best New Performer
Jay Chou (
Best Original Screenplay
Yau Nai-hoi (游乃海) and Yip Tin-shing (葉天成) for Election (黑社會)
Best Screenplay Adaptation
Feng Xiao-gang (
Best Visual Effects
Frankie Chung (
Best Film Editing
Yau Chu-wai (
Best Action Choreography
Lau Kar-leung (
Best Original Film Score
Lee Cin-yun (
Best Original Film Song
James Ho (
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Best Sound Effects
May Mok (
Best Cinematography
Anthony Pun (
Best Art Direction
Wong Yi-fei (
Best Make up and Costume Design
Shirley Chan (
Best Documentary
Jump! Boys (
Best Short Film
How's Life (
Best Animation
The Fire Ball (
The Best Taiwan Film Professional of the Year
Hou Hsiao-hsien (
The Best Taiwan Film of the Year
Three Times (
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April 21 to April 27 Hsieh Er’s (謝娥) political fortunes were rising fast after she got out of jail and joined the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in December 1945. Not only did she hold key positions in various committees, she was elected the only woman on the Taipei City Council and headed to Nanjing in 1946 as the sole Taiwanese female representative to the National Constituent Assembly. With the support of first lady Soong May-ling (宋美齡), she started the Taipei Women’s Association and Taiwan Provincial Women’s Association, where she
It is one of the more remarkable facts of Taiwan history that it was never occupied or claimed by any of the numerous kingdoms of southern China — Han or otherwise — that lay just across the water from it. None of their brilliant ministers ever discovered that Taiwan was a “core interest” of the state whose annexation was “inevitable.” As Paul Kua notes in an excellent monograph laying out how the Portuguese gave Taiwan the name “Formosa,” the first Europeans to express an interest in occupying Taiwan were the Spanish. Tonio Andrade in his seminal work, How Taiwan Became Chinese,
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) hatched a bold plan to charge forward and seize the initiative when he held a protest in front of the Taipei City Prosecutors’ Office. Though risky, because illegal, its success would help tackle at least six problems facing both himself and the KMT. What he did not see coming was Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (將萬安) tripping him up out of the gate. In spite of Chu being the most consequential and successful KMT chairman since the early 2010s — arguably saving the party from financial ruin and restoring its electoral viability —
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