To say that mainland Chinese look to Taiwan popular culture as an oracle would certainly be blowing our horn a little too loud. But it is no exaggeration to say, as one mainland China cultural maven put it, "Television, film, and pop music are the main channels through which most ordinary people in mainland China have learned about external cultures since the Cultural Revolution."
說台灣的流行文化是大陸思想啟蒙的推手，可能有點自我膨脹，但一位大陸文化人說，「港台電視、電影、流行歌是大陸文革後一般大眾對外來文化認識的主要通道」，可是一點兒也不誇張。