In this post-crisis era, with the transformation of global power relations, the
critical voices of the Chinese community gradually form a network between
oriental subjectivities and create new opportunities for the construction of civil
society discourses in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao. Far-sighted
campaigners try to promote ideas, initiatives, and critical communication through
various channels. Their purposes are to build a platform of communication within
a civil society, and form a cultural community that acts as an activist group in
pursuit of common goals and value interests. This study takes “Taipei Documentary
Filmmakers’ Union,” Taiwan’s first union voluntarily organized by documentary
workers and its self-run “Taiwan Documentary E-Paper” as examples. With the
analysis of texts and the interviews with key figures, the study explains both the
organization’s function and methods of communicating critical voices as a Taiwanidentified
medium using documentary as vehicles