Made in Taiwan, Made to Last
By Jessica Li
Soft Power In Taiwan
△ The Tzu Foundation
► Why ( The Core Belief )
► How (What the foundation has done)
△ The Vegetable vendor Chen Sue-chu ► Why (What is her core belief)
► How (What does she do to save so much
money and what does the money go to)
△ Lu Yen-hsun, the tennis player
► Why (What is his belief to help him what he is)
► How (What does he do to sharper his skills)
△ Din Tai Fung
► Why (What is the restaurant’s belief )
► How (What does the restaurant do to
improve their cuisine)
△ Industrial Technology Research Institute
► Why (What is the institute’s belief )
► How (What does the company do to
invent the most innovative products)
△ The Greenwalking
► Why (Why there is need of the invention) ► How (What inspired the invention)
The Past Negative Image about Taiwan
△ flawed components
► a fact or a personal opinion ?
△ Taiwan politics/ legislators
► a fact or a personal opinion ?
█ Why Taiwan is teased either on TV or in movies?
► Is it a way of discrimination?
► Why other developing
countries are not ridiculed?
Paragraph I
∆ Taiwan seemed to be the only country that had been
taken to task for its flaw.
► Taiwan was the only country that was blamed for its
flawed components/ parts and products, which weren’t
durable and were easily broken.
∆ a child watched legislators coming to blows/
/resorting to violence/fighting on TV as a form of juvenile entertainment and asks, “Taiwan?”
► Taiwan’s legislators/lawmakers have the reputation of resolving disputes through
violence and this has become a joke among adolescents.
Legislative Yuan
∆ juvenile (a) very naïve/ of young people (N) adolescent
► juvenile delinquency
EX. Because many adolescents are getting obsessed in cyber world, the number
of dropouts keeps growing each year, which is in correlation to
( 成正比 ) the rise of
juvenile delinquency.
∆ it is clear that Taiwan didn’t project/ present a positive image.
► project (V) ▲ present
The chain bakery, alleged for adding artificial
additives to bread, sought advice on how to project a more positive
image of their company.
▲ estimate (V)
With discovery of oil shale, the unemployment of US is projected to fall next year.
▲ make light onto a flat surface Images are projected onto the retina of the
eyes.
▲ stick out/ protrude
The feature of Chinese traditional architecture is the projected roof decorated with
mythological animals.
▲ sent out
Actors must learn how to project their voice.
A number of senior students tend to project their negative emotions onto their parents,
which is a lack of maturity and consideration.
Paragraph II
∆ One is to implement “hard power,” the practice of obtaining power through military force or
economic coercion.
--- dictatorship
獨裁► Economic coercion is when a controller of a vital resource uses his advantage to compel a person to do something he would not do because this resource is monopolized. If
someone is the owner of the only water supply, then the
owner can compel the thirsty person to pay an extra price for that water or have him perform enormous labor. This is also referred to as a form of exploitation.
EX. With the rising juvenile delinquency, many activists are urging the government to implement a new policy to house the dropouts.
EX. In poverty-stricken countries, the practice of
marrying teenage girls is considered acceptable
rather than inhumane and ruthless.
∆ Coined by ---, the term refers to ---.
Ex. The word “NEET” was originally coined to refer to the young British people who don’t
receive “education, employment, or training.”
∆ Countries (that demonstrate soft power)
actively engage in/ are involved in/ participate in foreign assistance during natural disasters,
strongly promote civic participation, and
energetically stimulate economic development.
► be engaged in/on N = be busy doing sth
Ex. The columnist is engaged on the article on the
current trend of undergoing cosmetic surgery.
Paragraph III.
∆ For the last/ recent few years, Taiwan has put considerable/great effort into using soft power.
∆ Tzu Chi Foundation has received
compliments/ praise from around the world for giving emergency assistance to _____ countries.
► rescue teams, relief fund, medical supplies, daily necessities
► disaster-stricken
countries
∆ For her outstanding civic participation/
engagement, the vegetable vendor was --- for generously donating so much of her modest/
humble income.
► Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It
means promoting the quality of life in a community,
through both political and non-political processes.
∆ The question made the headlines around the world.
∆ Awarded a Michelin star and once ranked by the ---, --- Din Tai Fung has put Taiwan on the international food map with its delicious
cuisine/delicacies.
∆ When it comes to/ Speaking of technology and economic development, Taiwan’s Industrial
Technology Research Institute has won many highly respected R&D 100 Awards, which honor –
∆ Apparently, the phrase “Made In Taiwan” has shot to fame/ rose to fame ----
EX. Examine the celebrity’s humble origins, and you will know that he didn’t shot to fame
overnight.
∆ R&D 100 Awards
► Widely recognized as the “Oscars of Innovation”, the R&D 100 Awards identify and celebrate the top technology products of the year. Past winners have included
sophisticated testing equipment, innovative new materials, chemistry breakthroughs, biomedical products, consumer items, and high-energy physics. The R&D 100 Awards spans industry, academia, and government-sponsored research.
