The Research On The Televisions Concerning With Reunion Of Relatives Of Both China Mainland And Taiwan Island

From Chinese reform and opening up till now, relationship between China’s mainland and Taiwan island changes from conflict to talking which leads to the conversation of movies and televisions of both sides become unblocked. Especially the televisions concerning with reunion of relatives of both sides are new and distinctive. Such theme hardly appeared in previous television shows. Nowadays even though there have no restrict definition of the theme, theme of reunion between mainland and Taiwan is becoming more and more popular in television creators based on frequent exchange and cooperation. Directions from both sides balance between commercial business and personal creation and bring fresh air and broad way to television making.Reunion theme as a new phenomenon of TV shows, makes creators from China’s mainland take this chance to express their caring and thinking about this important history proposition concerning with relationship between two sides. On the other hand, creators from Taiwan hold complicated point when talking about co-production. Distinctions in society, culture and context across the strait lead to differences in narrative words and image style while making the same theme show. In mainland most televisions adopt individual narrating instead of broad history narrating. Through transforming home and nation memory into personal memory, these shows express expectation for national reunification in personal homesick emotions. Another side most Taiwan’s televisions mean to avoid political and historical debate. They represent social life and individual experiences which accompany with colonial awareness using de-political and de-historical image style. It is a different native awareness of imagination from mainland’s homing one. However, behind the images of both lands the deeper culture connotation shows a same group characteristic. In fact language reality, traditional moral, custom and so on which they share are all rooted in Chinese culture. They abandon concept of nation consciously or unconsciously to exhibit Chinese traditional element in common. It seems to be accomplishment of cultural belonging, but in fact it is natural and reasonable expression from cultural and national acknowledgement.However, cultural acknowledgement differs from identification acknowledgement as political and historical barrier from separation. On one hand, mainland builds powerful nation will through ideology of home and nation combination and through strong national power backup. On the other hand, Taiwan goes through impact from globalization, regionalization, localization and other different meaning of modern or tradition. Besides, economy of Taiwan has to rely on mainland’s market. Taiwan games and negotiates under strong influence from national culture of mainland. This process benefits for the audiences from both lands to construct a common imagination community. It is important to deepen national awareness, thin separation awareness, promote Chinese reunification for both sides.