Taiwan

people, the twentieth day of the month of Lunar New Year is a day called 天穿节 (tiān chuān jié), one of the important festival for Hakka ethnic. [Malaysian Chinese and Culture Investigative Group, 2015.] Tian Chuan Jie in China and Taiwan actually are Hakka grand festival. Taiwan also had put it as the global Hakka Day. [Liang, 2013.] This festival origin an ancient China legend which is about Nüwa mends sky. Nuwa is a goddess who created the human. One…

Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Abstract: Engineering education has been substantially changing in the past 100 years. Among these changes, design thinking has created great impact to this field. ME310 is a project-based engineering design thinking course originated in Stanford University in 1967. In this course, students learn the design process by working on real world design challenges proposed by industry partner. In 2014, ME310 in taught in Taiwan for the first time.…

Data on Brussels Stock Exchange from Antwerp’s SCOB database were used to investigate if stock returns have any relationship with variables, such as size, beta, dividend yield, and risks. The sample covered periods of 1873 to 1914. Using Fama-MacBeth regression model, the study finds that average stock returns have no relationship with size, risk, and beta, but establishes weak relationship between dividend yield and stock returns. The study finds strong momentum in the sample data. The results…

Lee is a former National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) superintendent who is now part owner of a new medical clinic in Taipei, Taiwan. The clinic is called Doctors' Doctor Clinic (roughly translated) and is located on the 3rd floor of the Taipei World Trade Center's International Trade Building. He received his MD degree at Tokyo Medical School in Japan and worked as a professor at China Medical University teaching courses in Internal Medicine. The trend today in Taiwan is that patients…

military force and remarkable ambitions. Thus, during a short time, Japan had colonized such countries as Korea, Taiwan and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. The participation in the League of Nations gave Japan an opportunity to colonize the Northern Mariana Island, the Carolina Island and Marshall Island with no resistance. Korea was under the Japanese control for more than 30 years and Taiwan for 50 years. During the colonization period, the Japanese Empire invested into the colonies in order…

Joseph Stalin and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and presidents Truman and Eisenhower and the United States were engaged in a cold war that ranged from Europe to Asia. The USSR was out to instill it’s influence and to spread Communism throughout Asia whilst preventing the United States from stopping their flow and instead putting forth capitalism as the way for Asian countries. A war of influence raged on between both superpowers as they went back and forth to who should reign in Asia.…

an industrial technological competence” (see Ogujiuba et al., 2011:8). Through this means during the ISI phase the NICs moved to manufacturing of technological products such as the computer machines. In the 1950s Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea began their industrial catch-up until the 1970s. The East Asian NICs shifted from importing manufactured goods to a local manufacturing (McMichael, 1996; Ogujiuba, 2011). The…

to health care, according to the video “Sick around the World”. “Sick around the World” analyzes the health care systems of Great Britain, Tokyo, Germany, Switzerland, and Taiwan and compares them to the health care system in the United States. The two health care systems I favored most were the systems in Japan and Taiwan which operate under a universal system of care. The text defines universal health care also known as single payer health care as a system of care in which everyone is…

majority of China-born people speak English well or very well (67.1%), whilst approximately 32% do not speak English well or at all (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). China • Mandarin is the official language of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. • Chinese people from Hong Kong and the Guangdong province of the People’s Republic of China speak Cantonese. • Chinese language includes over 20 different dialects, such as; Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese),…

This dimension focuses on how well a culture can adapt to change and how well they can cope with uncertainty. If there is a feeling of anxiousness about change, then that society may feel threatened. In his book, DeVito (2016) stated: A culture with a high ambiguity-tolerant culture doesn’t feel threatened by unknown situations; uncertainty is a normal part of life, and people accept it as it comes. They minimize the importance of rules governing communication and relationships. People in these…