In any case, the Taiwan “new wave” has tended to mark its images as specific to the Island, in ways quite distinct from the mainland evocation of the landscape. The city is also focused differently here (and Terrorizer will be an index of its richness and possibilities), for the obvious reasons that Taipei does not possess the profile or the historical resonance and associations of the great traditional mainland cities, nor is it an all-encompassing closed urban space of a vitural city-state like Hong Kong. Still , its dominance has effectively transformed the natural countryside into a kind of extended suburban space, one in which the survival of more traditional agricultural villages is nonetheless sublimated and somehow modified by their linked association in an intricate web of electric trains that lead into the capital.
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