Posted on May 12, 2023
How Taiwan once used female voice to win hearts and minds in China
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."FENG: As a young broadcaster, she'd been trained to think of Chinese people as gongfei, or communist bandits, as Taiwanese propaganda called them. But traveling to China, she realized...
CHEN: (Through interpreter) In a closed environment, we became mysterious to each other. But seeing each other in the same room, we realized we are not very different.
FENG: As in they were all people - people who want happiness and health and to listen to Teresa Teng's music.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WO ZHI ZAI HU NI")
TENG: (Singing in Mandarin).
FENG: Emily Feng, NPR News, Kinmen Island, Taiwan.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WO ZHI ZAI HU NI")
TENG: (Singing in Mandarin)."
..."FENG: As a young broadcaster, she'd been trained to think of Chinese people as gongfei, or communist bandits, as Taiwanese propaganda called them. But traveling to China, she realized...
CHEN: (Through interpreter) In a closed environment, we became mysterious to each other. But seeing each other in the same room, we realized we are not very different.
FENG: As in they were all people - people who want happiness and health and to listen to Teresa Teng's music.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WO ZHI ZAI HU NI")
TENG: (Singing in Mandarin).
FENG: Emily Feng, NPR News, Kinmen Island, Taiwan.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WO ZHI ZAI HU NI")
TENG: (Singing in Mandarin)."
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