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英美文化研究第八組 Welcome

英美文化研究第八組 Welcome. OUR TOPICS. Who is the most infamous criminal? Who is the most famous sport person? Who is the most famous scientist/inventor? Who is the most famous artist? Who is the most important historical figure? Who is the most famous singer?. The Key Points in Our Present.

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  1. 英美文化研究第八組Welcome

  2. OUR TOPICS • Who is the most infamous criminal? • Who is the most famous sport person? • Who is the most famous scientist/inventor? • Who is the most famous artist? • Who is the most important historical figure? • Who is the most famous singer?

  3. The Key Points in Our Present • Present the pictures of these people and descriptions of their deeds. Also explain the ways that we make our choice. • Compare these people with equivalence in Taiwan. The similarities and differences between them.

  4. The most infamous criminal! Chen Chin-hsing, Kao Tien-ming and Lin Chuen-sheng were the most famous kidnap-murderers in Taiwan. They kidnapped Pai Hsiau-yen on April 14,1997, the 17 year-old daughter of hugely popular singer and variety show host Ms. Pai Ping-ping. After a few days, the victim was brutally killed and her corpse placed and weighted down with dumbells in a drainage ditch in Taipei county and was thus discovered on April 28. While they were cornered by the police and military, Lin Chuen-sheng got killed by the police, Kao Tien-ming committed suicide by shooting himself. A policeman Tsaur Lih-min, a doctor Fang Bao-fang and his nurse Jenq Wen-yu were also killed by the kidnappers. Chen Chin-hsing had committed several sexual crimes while evading the police. What is the remarkable about this kidnap-murder was Pai Ping-ping, a singer and all-around entertainer was hosting several TV shows at the time of the abduction. The kidnappers demanded US$5 million in cash and produced photos of Hsiao-yen, half nude and bound with tape, along with a severed piece of her little finger, apparently to show their seriousness; Taiwan's media intruded aggressively, improperly relayed the capturing proceedure and the interviewed with the last remaining Pai kidnap suspect, Chen Chin-hsing, while he was holding the South African military attache and his family hostage in their Tien mu home.

  5. Pai Hsiau-Yen, the Victim

  6. The most infamous 19th century sex criminal in Britain • Jack the Ripper committed the infamous Whitchapel murders in London in 1888, before he disappeared without trace. The Ripper claimed six victims, all of them female prostitutes. What is particularly remakable about the Whitechapel murders was how skilfully the victims were dismembered after being killed. Thus a number of the women had precise cuts in their bodies, organs removed, etc. This circumstance led to speculation that the Ripper had at least superficial medical knowledge; and one of the crimes suggested that dental forceps had been employed. Hardly surprisingly, London prostitutes organized themselves into a "Defence committee against Jack the Ripper" and some of them, friends of murdered colleagues, attended identification parades. Johnny Depp in the movie From Hell, the newest Jack the Ripper story (CORBIS)

  7. Most infamous 19th century sex criminal Jack the Ripper wrote letters to Scotland Yard. One of the letters is at Madame Tussaud's- "I like my work and I mean to go on with it. You will hear of me and my little games again. I have kept a little of that lovely red liquid in a glass of beer and I wanted to use it to write with but it' s become thick like glue and I can't use it¡D¡@But even red ink can serve the purpose. Ha! Ha! Ha! Next time I'll cut the ears off the lady and send them to the police. Keep my letter until my next success and then publish it maybe. With luck, I'll begin again soon. Good luck!"

  8. Similarities & Difference between the Two • The differences between them are: the victims of Jack the Ripper were all prostitutes, they were dismembered after being killed and it was a simple case of Sexually Violent Predator, SVP. The victim of Chen Chin-hsing and partners was the 17-year-old daughter of a celebrity, it was a kidnapping combined with SVP case. The similarity of the two cases was all concerned with SVP and using brutal methods. 

  9. The Most Famous Sports Person • Mia Hamm is the most famous female footballer in USA for her outstanding exploits on the field for Washington Freedom and the USA.

  10. Hamm has played international football since 1987! • Full name: Mar Margaret Hamm • Date of Birth: March 1972 • Place of Birth: Selma, Alabama USA • Club: Washington Freedom • International goals: 142 • Hamm has played international football since 1987! Hamm has scored an amazing 142 goals during an international career that has also seen her win the World Cup and the Olympics. Twice-voted Fifa World Player of the Year, she dominates the ladies’ game and the newspaper column.

  11. The most famous sports person in Taiwan • The most famous athlete in ROC history is Yang Chuan-kwang, of the Amis indigenous tribe, who won the silver medal in the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

  12. C. K. Yang's World Record at Walnut, 1963 Total:9121

  13. Similarities & Differences • The similarities: Both they have won the Olympics. • The differences: They are famous in different sport fields. One is an individual sportsman and the other is a team player. (The girl is now and the man is from 40 years ago.) That is, she was part of a team that went for the Olympics and he was alone, that is the decathlon is a singular sport.

  14. The Famous Scientist • Benjamin Franklin was born on Sunday January 17, 1706 in Boston as the fifteenth of seventeen children. Franklin taught himself to read shortly after he learned to speak. At eight he was sent to the Boston Latin School. His father, however, removed him from school two years later to work in their family’s candle making shop-a job he hated.

  15. Franklin’s older brother had returned from England with a printing press. Arrangements were made for Franklin to become apprentice. By 1728, Franklin and a partner set up a print shop. In addition, they bought a newspaper called the Pennsylvania gazette. Franklin quickly put his considerable writing skills to work filling to the paper with news as well as with his own well-written essays. The newspaper became quite popular and profitable.

  16. In 1732, Franklin published Poor Richard’s Almannck, and became an instant bestseller eventually making Franklin a wealthy man. It became the profound influence Franklin would exert on the course of American cultural and political life.

  17. In June 1752 Franklin conducted one of the most famous experiments in the history of science. He and William engaged in a bold and dangerous experiment to prove that lightning is electricity. Immediately after their experiment Franklin invented the lighting rod.

  18. He organized a volunteer fire department, promoted a city hospital, a circulating library, and an academy for youth, which would become the University of Pennsylvania.

  19. Franklin was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, deputy postmaster general for colonies, and was sent on various diplomatic missions to England where he present views before the first US ambassador. One of his final and most important public acts took place at the Constitution of 1787. Franklin helped craft the new constitution and fought for the rights of the common man. He was 81 years of age.

  20. History of Benjamin Franklin • In 1732, Franklin published Poor Richard’s Almannck, and became an instant bestseller eventually making Franklin a wealthy man. It became the profound influence Franklin would exert on the course of American cultural and political life. • In June 1752 Franklin conducted one of the most famous experiments in the history of science. He and William engaged in a bold and dangerous experiment to prove that lightning is electricity. Immediately after their experiment Franklin invented the lighting rod. • He organized a volunteer fire department, promoted a city hospital, a circulating library, and an academy for youth, which would become the University of Pennsylvania. • Franklin was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, deputy postmaster general for colonies, and was sent on various diplomatic missions to England where he present views before the first US ambassador. One of his final and most important public acts took place at the Constitution of 1787. Franklin helped craft the new constitution and fought for the rights of the common man. He was 81 years of age. •  America has never forgotten Benjamin Franklin because he did both. He lived these words of wisdom by writing as much as he possibly could and by doing even more. He became famous for being a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher, a musician, and an economist. Today, we honor Ben Franklin as one of our Founding Fathers and as one of America's greatest citizens. Although he was born in Boston, the city of Philadelphia is remembered as the home of Ben Franklin. In Philadelphia, you can find both Ben's gravesite and the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial. You'll also find The Franklin Institute Science Museum. • This quick glimpse at the long life (1706 - 1790) of a complex man is meant to help you learn about Ben Franklin and also to let you see how Ben's ideas are still alive in our world today. • To learn all that you can about the Franklin family, try taking a look at the family tree. To learn even more about Ben Franklin and his world, try taking a look at some recommended resource materials, enrichment activities, and a brief glossary. • Be sure to notice the electricity safety tips that are provided by PECO Energy, Sponsor of "Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man."

  21. Yuan-Tseh Lee 李遠哲 1987SPECIAL HONOR AWARD LAUREATE Yuan-Tseh Lee 李遠哲

  22. Dr. Lee was born in Sinchu in 1936. He graduated from National Taiwan University with a BS degree in Chemistry and from Ching-Hua University with an MS degree in Engineering, and later he received his Ph.D. from UC Berkley. He was a professor at UC Berkley, and currently he is the President of Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan

  23. Special Achievement Dr. Lee is by far the most internationally recognized Taiwanese scientist. His remarkable research contributions on Molecular Beams led him and two of his colleagues to earn the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986. He had been praised as an extremely creative and hard working researcher. He contributed greatly to the understanding of molecular dynamics and their applications in the modern semiconductor industry.

  24. Similarities and Differences • Yuan-Tseh Lee 李遠哲and Franklin are the most famous Scientist, they also is the most famous Inventor on the Taiwan’s and US’s country ,. They pay attention on the social situation. They were diligent to execute their vision and dream. The difference is Benjamin Franklin not lives long enough to fulfill his ideal, However, Yuan-Tseh Lee 李遠哲carry out his dream.

  25. The Most Famous Artist • John Singer Sargent • American Painter • 1856-1925 John Singer Sargent The Late Portraits: Complete Paintings

  26. John Singer Sargent was an American painter. He was the most celebrated portraitist of his time but left it at the very height of his fame to devote full time to landscape painting, water colors and public art.

  27. He was born in Florence and schooled as a French artist heavily influenced by the Impressionist movement, the Spanish Master Velazquez, the Dutch Master Frans Hals. • Extremely bright, extremely gifted, an intense hard worker, he was last great generalist. It is hard to put a label on him for he could master so many different painting styles such as he painted two United States presidents, the aristocracy of Europe, the new and emerging tycoons and barons of business; and he painted gypsies, tramps, and street children with same gusto and passion. He hiked through the Rocky Mountains with a canvas tent under pouring rain to paint the beauty of water falls, and painted near the front lines during World War I to capture the horrors of war …

  28. Shiy De-jinn (席德進) • Taiwanese painter • in 1970s

  29. Shiy De-jinn was one of the most popular painters in Taiwan. The National Museum of History held two large-scale exhibitions of his work two decades ago. • And many public museums and galleries have held exhibitions of his work in recent years. • He is most appreciated for a series of realistic oil paintings of the Taiwanese countryside. These are regarded as the best of his works and are especially valued of being among the first works by a Taiwanese artist to consciously present the natural beauty of the country. He is also among the first cultural heritage in Taiwan.

  30. In addition to landscape, his portraitures are increasing celebrated such as one of his most famous portrait Boy in Red.

  31. Similarities and Differences • The similarity: • Both of their favorite were landscape, portraiture. • The difference: • John Singer Sargent: He was heavily influenced by the Impressionist movement, the Spanish Master Velazques… and he could master many different painting styles. • Shiy De-jinn: He was very good at realistic oil paintings of the Taiwanese countryside.

  32. The Most Important Historical Figure • Sun-Yat-Sen was born on November 12, 1866 in a farming family in southeast China. Sun received a few years of local schooling in traditional Chinese texts. At 13 he moved to Hawaii, where his elder brother had emigrated. Three years of study in a Honolulu boarding school run by the Church of England were followed by more than a decade in Hong Kong, where Sun was gained certificates of proficiency in medicine and surgery. By 1894, however, China was sliding into chaos as the Manchu dynasty weakened and Japan defeated China in a brief and humiliating war. The main prize of victory for the Japanese was the island of Taiwan, which was ceded by China and made a Japanese colony.

  33. Sensing the time was ripe for an uprising, Sun returned to Hawaii, where he used his earlier contacts, along with some of his new friends in Hong Kong, to form organization to reviving China. Sun returned to Hong Kong in 1895 and attempted to lead an insurrection in southeast China, but He failed. • He also traveled widely in Europe, Canada and the United States, seeking funds for future uprisings. During his long years of exile he was able to keep acquiring funds--especially from overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and North America. • Sun sought to combine the fundamental aspects of nationalism, democracy and socialism become "Three Principles of the People". Over the years, Sun developed these ideas into a comprehensive plan for restoring economic and moral strength to his country. He hoped to free Chinese by building a central government that would counter the rampant forces of capitalism in industry and of powerful landlords in the countryside.

  34. Sun Yat-sen had extraordinary tenacity and great persuasive powers. Because of Sun and his revolution followers, the Manchu dynasty was collapsed in 1911. He was named provisional President of the new Chinese republic. • The last decade of Sun's life was spent trying to establish a more effective political and military base of operations. • Nowadays, he is known as "the Father of the Chinese Revolution."

  35. The Most Important Historical Figure Orville Wright Wilbur Wright • On December 17,1903, on a desolate beach in North Carolina, Wilbur Wright, 36, and his brother Orville, 32 flew a plane of their own design and making, and changed the course of history. The world saw them as ‘ordinary American boys’ but they were not. Far from ordinary, they were brilliant, visionary, and brave, with an unparalleled creative alliance that brought us the freedom of the skies.

  36. Even as children, both brothers were fascinated by mechanics. When Wilbur was 11, and Orville 7, their father returned from a trip with a toy helicopter to which the brother later traced their earliest interest in flight. In 1896, Wilbur began scouring the library for information on the bird flight while Orville read all that had been written about flying. Together they developed their own theories of aviation, and while running the bike shop, devoted themselves to the goal of flight.

  37. Wilbur describes his airplane to a fascinated King Alfonso XIII of Spain. In 1902, the brothers began to design a new machine different from the others in a crucial way. On December 17, 1903, their new machine was finally ready to fly.

  38. In 1904 and 1905, they refined their invention in a series of amazing flights over a Dayton farmer’s field. • In France, Wilbur made the first of a stunning series of record-breaking flight. He was instant hero, and an international wave of acclaim swept the Wright brothers from obscurity to celebrity. • Preparing the plane for takeoff.

  39. Camp d'Auvours, September 21, 1908.Wilbur's record flight of 1 hr 31 min 25 4/5 sec.

  40. Similarities and Differences • Although Sun-Yat-Sen was a physician, Orville and Wilbur Wright were inventor, they all changed the history. Sun-Yat-Sen was devoted in revolution of politics, and brothers Wright were devoted in flight, but they were brilliant, visionary, brave and fulfill their dream.

  41. The Most Famous Singer Teresa Teng Forever

  42. An early beginning Teresa, who was born in 1953 is probably the most famous woman singer among Chinese people worldwide. Maybe younger people born after the 1960s don't see what is so special about her, but people of the generation before theirs can give a lot of reasons why they are so uniquely fond of her. Teng's father was a great aficionado of Peking opera, and little Teresa often accompanied him to performances. She was thus infected by a love for singing. When she was only five or six, she would dress up in her father's oversized shirt and stand in front of a "microphone" made out of a shoe polish can and belt out folk operas just like the real thing. In primary school, she sang more clearly and better than anyone else. She began to stand out, and often performed at informal parties and evening gatherings. Later she won a singing competition with a Hubei folk opera composition entitled "Visiting Ying Tai." (Hubei folk opera songs were updated and made popular by filmmakers in the 1960s.) She gave up her formal education in her third year of middle school and began performing in floor shows. Next came appearances on the television show "Galaxy of Stars," followed by hosting a show of her own called "Each Day One Star," and then playing leading roles in films. Her popularity spread across Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia. In 1973 she decided to take on the challenge of Japan, and she started on the path toward international stardom. She swept up the prize for "Best New Singing Star" in Japan's widely known Red and White Song Competition.

  43. The soldiers' sweetheart • Before she had learned Japanese, she would make little notes and explanations on her sheet music in Mandarin Chinese phonetic symbols, Chinese characters, and romanization. Besides getting the pronunciation right, she also wanted to be sure she put the right feeling into each word, and make the right gestures. Everything was a struggle.

  44. Golden Bell award • Nevertheless,she was able to reap what she had so assiduously sowed. She revealed in an interview, "When I performed in the past, I was always a little nervous. I would just stand there and sing the words, but I didn't dare to really let go with my emotions or gestures. It was only after coming to Japan that I learned what performing really means. I learned how to free myself and how to express my emotions to the utmost. Only this can truly be called singing." • Whereas in Taiwan she was best known for singing folk songs and romantic ditties marked by cute little vocal inflections, in Japan she began to do more demanding ballads and her singing technique matured greatly. Judie Ong, another big star living in Japan, once received from Teng a tape of her practicing her singing technique. • Next Teng did concerts in the US, and broke through the "bamboo curtain" into mainland China, inciting a wave of enthusiasm for "Little Teng." Besides all this she won the Golden Bell award (Taiwan's top award) as best female singer and was selected as one of the nation's Ten Most Outstanding Young Women. Moreover, as the child of a military family, she often returned to Taiwan to put on performances for the troops, and became known as the "soldiers' sweetheart."

  45. Emotional rescue Mainland China • After Japan and the United States broke diplomatic relations with the ROC (in 1974 and 1978, respectively), the political atmosphere in Taiwan was rather clouded. As Taiwan's first international-level star, "she had the same inspirational impact as the Little League baseball champions," says Weng. Further, she continued to come back to participate in national day festivities and to perform for the armed forces, giving a considerable boost to people's morale. • Nevertheless, suggests Magic Stone Music general manager Landy Chang, before her voice reached into the mainland she was still just one of a group of leading stars. It was only after her music penetrated the mainland that she truly established her status as a superstar. • Mainland China at the end of the 1970s was still recovering from the debacle of the Cultural Revolution. Music from the Cultural Revolution was heavy-handed and stiff, and was weighed down by the responsibility of carrying the correct political message. As Kong Qiesheng, a mainland writer living in the US, describes it, "It became a propaganda tool to promote Mao's ideas, just like party newspaper editorials and critical articles." After Deng Xiaoping took power, there was some easing up in the political realm, and only then were limited amounts of Hong Kong and Taiwan music allowed in.

  46. Teresa Teng rules! • mainland authorities found Teng's gentle, charming, and girlish voice and her mushy ballads to be the worst kind of bourgeois sentimentalism. At the most extreme, "When Will You Come Back Again?" was condemned as "reactionary ideology" and "a betrayal of the nation." Is the song hinting that the Kuomintang will return to recover China? Who exactly is the one who will "come back again"? What is the implication of "coming back"? • Although the authorities at that time issued frequent orders to ban the music of "Little Teng," after the first large-scale shipment of Japanese tape recorders into the mainland a decade ago, it became very common to retape Teresa's albums. Overnight they spread across the mainland, until Teng's fame approached that of the "engineer of reform," Deng Xiaoping. Later on, as Old Deng's popularity waned, people said things like "we'd rather have Little Teng than Old Deng." (Teresa's surname is the same as Xiaoping's, though she used a different romanized form.) One expression even had it, "By day, Deng Xiaoping rules mainland China. But by night, Teresa Teng rules!" • As Zhang Shouyi has described the mainland at that time, per capita income was less than RMB40 per month, and a Teresa Teng tape was going for RMB10 to RMB20. But still working people willingly laid out half a month's salary to buy a cassette on the black market. And at little stalls where palm-sized pictures of Teng sold for the extortionate price of RMB2, supply couldn't keep up with demand.

  47. Teresa Teng Forever • On May 8th 1995, 43-year-old Teresa Teng died from a severe asthma attack while on a trip to Thailand. When the tragic news was released, it was as if an enormous boulder had been dumped into the lake of the global Chinese community, sending ripples in all directions. It was not only ordinary Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Southeast Asia who were saddened by the incident and thought fondly of their many memories. The media devoted a tremendous amount of space to the story, and many groups bestowed posthumous honors and accolades on Ms. Teng. The staff at her record company in Japan wore black armbands for a week. Teresa's death was reported in the New York Times and Time magazine, and these journals described her enormous impact on fans of Chinese music. • Teresa Teng was popular in Chinese societies worldwide for three decades. Even though she has left us, for countless fans she will always be their "eternal sweetheart."

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