Screen Grabs: A New Taiwanese Cinema giant comes to the Bay

Screen Grabs: A New Taiwanese Cinema giant comes to the Bay

Colonization leaves scars on a people, as does uncertainty over being able to control their own national future—the latter an emotion Americans may now be feeling for the first time since exiting the British Empire. Taiwan is a particular case, a prosperous developed country that nonetheless has spent much of its history under somebody else’s thumb: The Dutch, Imperial China, Japan, then the internal oppression of martial law. When that last end…