Multiculturalism Hiding in the Film:An Analysis of Welcome

Multiculturalism is an inevitable topic facing with our daily life.A film may represent a society,culture,class,sexuality,and a multitude of things.Therefore films should be a very valuable object for studying culture in the world.In this paper,I would like to analyze the film Welcome to show the conflicts of different cultures and how multiculturalism present in movie.The purpose of this study is to view and discuss how multiculturalism has been depicted in this film.     

Fandom of Taiwan’s Idol Drama in Mainland China Practices in Computer-mediated Communication

Following the increasing interaction between Mainland China and Taiwan,Taiwan’s idol drama,may be seen as a way of cultural exchange,is very famous in the Chinese community.Not only the dramas become the hot topic among audience,but the idols and the leading characters are popular.Meanwhile,the popularity of Taiwan’s idol drama has stimulated the formation of fans or fandom in Mainland China.Moreover,as the development of technology many practices or discussions of fans have been moved online.This paper explores the computer-mediated fan group:Summer’s Desire Club in Baidu’s tieba,one of the most popular fans communities in Mainland China by using the Ethnography method.Through observing the practices of members(or fans) in this group to discover what practices appear in the computer-mediated communication of Taiwan’s idol drama viewing in Mainland China and why do fans do these practices.