1954. American Force Network Taiwan 美軍電台

1970's realist/nativist novels

Subculture:Japanese_Taiwanese songs since 50's, 

• President Chiang Kai-shek died
• International: The Fall of Saigon

• Yang Hsuan: Modern Chinese Folksong Concert, making songs with the poet Yu Kwang-chung's poems as lyrics（楊弦中國現代民歌）

• Folk painter Hong Tong's 1^st exhibit  洪通

• Li Shuang-tse's question, "Where are our songs?" in Western Folksong Concert in Tamkang Univ.

• The debate on "Native Taiwanese Literature" 鄉土文學論戰
• Twelve Major Constructions started.  １２大建設

• Golden Melody Award金韻獎 (1977-1981)
• Folksinger Chen Da's concert （陳達）

• economic growth rate 14%; Export growth rate 35.7%
• Chiang Ching-huo elected president.

• The U.S. government established diplomatic relationship with mainland China; 

• Separated monthly and yearly top-10 charts for Taiwanese song from those of Western pop music in radio program "Popular Music" (熱門音樂) 
• Folk Wind album (1978-1981)民謠風

• 7-eleven introduced to Taiwan.
• Beautiful Island Event.美麗島事件
• The U.S./ Taiwan broke diplomatic relationship.

• Sing Our Own SongConcert 唱我們的歌演唱會
• "The Descendants of the Dragon"龍的傳人 got popular
• "Beautiful Island" & "Youth China" did not pass Information Bureau's censorship.

• Taiwan New Cinema

• New Taiwanese Song Chart (a larger scale) 

• Chiang re-elected chair of KMT
• The mysterious death of Chen wen-cheng.
• International: Reagan administration 

• Golden Melody Award Stopped. (1977-1981)

• Singer Ho Te-chien 侯德健  went to mainland China 
• Two singers (Lo Ta-yu and Su Rui) successfully put forth albums which had a thematic unity.

• the investment of MacDonald's 

• Music videos started to be popular.

• "We Are the World" album
• The first AIDS patient in Taiwan. 

• "Tomorrow Will Be Better" 明天會更好album, which sold 100,000 copies in a week.
• Anti-pirating committee 
• Imitation was prevalent, when the music industry ran short of producers and composers.

• Service Industry population: Industry =

• KMT launched Six Reformation 六大改革

• The introduction of Hong Kongese singers.

• the lifting of Martial Law (7/15) 
• the lifting of newspaper restrictions 報禁
• Cross-strait relative visit 探親allowed.

• Another voice: Anti-pirating concert 

反盜錄演唱會

• the death of Chiang Ching-kuo

Tina Turner's & Stevie Wonder's concerts. 

• Taiwan: The film City of Sadness won Cannes' Golden Lion.

• Campus folksongs were renewed and sung again.
• Taiwanese rock band, Black List Workshop.
• Little Tiger, the first teenagers' idol singers.小虎隊
• Mainland Chinese Singer Cui Chien's 崔健 album was published in Taiwan, which lead to more musical exchanges across the strait.

• Taiwan: Marx's work was legally published in Taiwan.
• The unification of East and West Germany

• KTV started to be popular. 
• Information Bureau stopped censoring music broadcast in media.

• Tower Records in Taiwan.

• The promotion of idol singers. 

• Hakka band, New Formosa band. 新寶島康樂隊
• Chinese-American band, L.A. Boyz.
• Saliva Songs (renewed old songs) takes greater percentage in the yearly production.口水歌 

• Taiwanese rapper, Pig's Head's first album.  豬頭皮

• The 20^th year of Taiwanese Folksong: concert, seminars, election of the 200 folksongs.