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7. Interventions on cultural margins: The case of the Chinese Film Forum UK and the presence of Taiwan cinema in the UK -- Taiwan cinema in the UK -- The Chinese Film Forum UK -- After Cape No. 7 -- Cultural interventions, critical reflections -- Notes -- PART II: Taiwan cinema and social change -- 8. Becoming a nation: The shaping of Taiwan's native consciousness in Wei Te-sheng's post-millennium films -- Wei's post-New Cinema: imaging of the past -- Cape No. 7: a line of escape from the orphan complex -- Seediq Bale: indigenous sovereignty and national myth -- Violence and return to the essence -- A fractured and foiled return -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. Imagine there's no China: Wei Te-sheng and Taiwan's 'Japan complex' -- Introduction -- The 'Japan complex' in Wei's films -- Orphans and father figures, nostalgia and cultural memory -- Imagine there's no China -- 10. Kano and Taiwanese baseball: Playing with transregionality and postcoloniality -- Introduction -- Transregional competing modernities and transnational predicaments -- Playing with postcoloniality: transcultural gaming and intergenerational reconciliation -- Notes -- 11. Seediq Bale as history -- Varieties of historical -- How do mainstream films construct a historical world and how does Seediq Bale follow the pattern? -- Seediq Bale and reading and judging the history film -- A new kind of history -- 12. Violence and indigenous visual history: Interventional historiography in Seediq Bale and Wushe, Chuanzhong Island -- Film as visual history -- A photo of layered violence -- Massacre of Japanese -- Massacre of Seediq by Seediq -- Speaking as indigenes: Pilin Yapu's documentary -- Seediq Bale and film aesthetics -- 13. Archiving an historical incident: The making of Seediq Bale as a socio-political event -- Introduction -- The aporia of historical representation and beyond