It was the late 1930s and Teng Yu-hsien (鄧雨賢) was unhappy with what the Japanese colonial government had done to his hit Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) songs Flowers in a Rainy Night (雨夜花), ...
In 1976, Hoklo (also known as Taiwanese) pop music suffered a major blow when the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government passed the Radio and Television Act (廣播電視法), limiting programming in the ...