Strokes Of Life or translated roughly into English as Golden Branch Jade Leaf is a costume Hokkien drama set in 1917, then 1940. It was produced by Formosa Television in Taiwan and was broadcast ...

FENG: With 35 minutes left to go, the director, Zeng Huanqi, finally arrives in a whirlwind of rapid-fire Hokkien. That's one of the main languages spoken here in Taiwan, in addition to Mandarin ...

Taiwan opera is revered across the Asian island. One of its most beloved traits is its gender-bending character archetypes, and its best-known actors are women who portray men.