Progress Report (3)

Results/Findings/Disscussion

According to our surveys, I would like to separate the results in three different aspects: politics between China and Taiwan, travel in Taiwan and Taiwan’s stars. These are three different perspectives in forming impression of Taiwan.

For the part of politics, exchanged students from China state that they usually watched CCTV to receive new information about Taiwan which includes daily news report and featured TV programs, Events Between Straits, from CCTV-4. This channel contains a variety of programs including documentaries, music, news, dramas, sports, and cartoons. Also, it covers news and events in Taiwan, Hong-kong and Chinatown around the world. According to the exchanged students, they would find out more about Taiwan’s politics or events mostly in CCTV-4 by news and Events Between Straits, a political talk show. In the news or other featured programs, the anchors claim that Taiwan is a good place with friendly people and they have freedom or perhaps too much freedom for people to talk. And the anchors from Taiwan in the featured programs, Events Between Straits, 尹乃菁 and 江岷欽 have their live talk show from Taiwan as the program broadcast in China. They would state partially the voices of Taiwan; however, not all of them can truthfully represent us. Nevertheless, they somehow in this way communicate with anchors and audiences in China; and this does help these exchanged students form part of their impression of Taiwan. Among these exchanged students, boys tend to have more interest in concerning about the politics in Taiwan while girls don’t. But generally speaking, politics is not the most concern for them.

For travel part, since these exchanged students are taught from books that Taiwan is a Treasured Island, they have had good impression on us since then. The China government has made lots of Travel programs which introduce Taiwan and enhance their good impression by watching these Travel programs. They know from these programs about Taiwan’s geographical scenery, night markets, museum, temples, etc. All of these are triggers for these exchanged students eager to come to Taiwan after we made the policy. Among these students, most of them are more interested in travel rather than politics or stars. Perhaps it is because most of them don’t have much time following news 24 hours or Taiwan’s stars. Most of them care about Taiwan’s culture, scenery and other things that might have relation to their future, such as business of travel, cultural business, etc.

For Taiwan’s stars part, I find that girls are more likely to follow Taiwan’s dramas, movies and songs. They receive this kind of information by watching CCTV-8 or Hunan TV or Internet TV. Since Internet TV is easy to access to it, these China exchanged students always watch Taiwan’s drama and variety show on the Internet, such as ppstream, youku, tudou, youtube, etc. These are quick access for them to know about Taiwan. Take Black & White for example, the drama plays at 9:00~11:00p.m., and on the Internet TV, they can watch them at 11:00p.m. Before they come to Taiwan, these form their impression before they come to Taiwan.