Actor-producer Liu attends Shanghai spin-off of alma mater

Liu was one of the students at the first class offered by the school on Saturday on communications management.

“In applying to attend the class, I was trying to gain a better understanding of trends in Taiwan's current 'mode of thinking, ' as I've been away for so many years,” Liu said.

Liu graduated from Shih Hsin University more than 20 years ago when the university was called the World College of Journalism. The college was founded in Taipei City's southern suburb of Muzha in 1956 by veteran journalist and educator Cheng She-wo (1898 1991).

The class he is attending covers linguistic communications and media management and is being taught by professors from Taiwan, including Jack Tzu-hsiang Yu, director of Shih Hsin University's College of Journalism and Communications.

Liu said he has become increasingly unfamiliar with Taiwan's media market after being abroad for so many years. Media and film productions from China had been barred in Taiwan under the Democratic Progressive Party administration, but two-way access has now been opened, thanks to the more liberal policy adopted by the Ma Ying-jeou administration, he noted.

Over the past decade, Liu's Shanghai-based studio has produced motion pictures and television series on stories and issues related to cross-strait exchanges.

Through the productions, he said, he has discovered that only a small gap exists in the pop and Internet cultures among the younger generations in Taiwan and China, but differences in daily lifestyles and values remain obvious.

“I have committed myself to narrowing the cross-strait gaps through film productions,” Liu said.

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