So I wanted to find out what was going on there. The cultures in Hong Kong and Taiwan are similar to ours in terms of their high-powered capitalist systems, very much about consumption and acquisition. Since I'd heard they have moved past that and advanced in making this part of general education on the college level, I wanted to learn from them. In China I visited the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and in Taiwan, National Taiwan University, National Chenghi University and Chinese Cultural University. In Hong Kong the media education situation is the same as it is here.
People are interested in it, but no ground has been broken.
Educators at National Chenghi University have been arguing for the past four years that it should be made part of the general education. All the people I interacted with were trained in the United States. They all got their graduate degrees at universities in this country. Her research has taken her out into the community to find out what parents know about media and their children's media use, and then offer ways in which they can help themselves bring up their kids through media education. That's terrific research.