Taiwan Insight

Myths, Misread: Taiwanese Baseball’s Identity Gap

17 June 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Jerry Chen. The article explores how Taiwanese baseball has been shaped by colonialism, nationalism, and identity politics, from Japanese rule to the Kuomintang era. It argues that myths surrounding youth baseball success and the “Chinese Taipei” designation obscure

Rooted in Motion: Multivocality of Amis Ecological Knowledge in Collaborative Museum Curation

16 June 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Su-Mei Lo. This article illustrates how collaborative curatorial practice transforms museums from static repositories into dynamic arenas of indigenous recovery and knowledge translation. By engaging Amis communities from ’Atolan to Keelung, these projects navigate sociopolitical friction and dismantle the rigid dualism separating ancestral hometowns from urban migrant spaces.

Welcoming Home Ancestral Objects: A Report of the Ki cacepeliw Collaboration

15 June 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Michel Lee. This article explores “Ki cacepeliw,” a three-year collaborative project between Sweden’s National Museums of World Culture, the National Taiwan Museum, and the Southern Paiwan community of Shizi Township. By centring on the century-old Nakahara collection at Stockholm’s Museum of Ethnography, the initiative embraces shared stewardship to reconnect descendants with their heritage. Culminating in a landmark 2025–2026 homecoming exhibition, the collaboration has breathed new life into Paiwan cultural identity, inspiring local artisans to revive and recreate long-lost traditional crafts and instruments.

From Objects to Relationships: Indigenous Collaboration and the “Engagement Turn” in Taiwan’s Museums

12 June 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Tzu-Ning Li. Shifting from studying Indigenous peoples to actively collaborating with them, museums have initiated emotionally charged “objects returning home” projects. The author demonstrates that ancestral artefacts are not passive specimens but active extensions of kinship and spirit. Ultimately, collaboration is framed as a slow, relational practice that challenges institutional authority and transforms museums into spaces for dynamic dialogue and historical justice.

Collections of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin

11 June 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Shao-Ji Yao. This article explores the provenance and 150-year history of Taiwan’s Indigenous ethnographic collections at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. Shaped by director Adolf Bastian’s universal archival ambitions, these artefacts span the period from late nineteenth-century colonial encounters to post-WWII acquisitions. The author details ongoing collaborative efforts to bring these historic items back to Taipei for a landmark transnational exhibition at the National Taiwan Museum in 2027.

Threads in Entangled Worlds: Indigenous Knowledge and Weaving Heritage in Taiwan

10 June 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Ipiq Matay. This article explores the tension between embodied Indigenous knowledge and rigid institutional heritage frameworks in Taiwan. Through tminun (weaving), how cultural heritage is a lived, relational practice passed down through muscle memory, rhythm, and ancestral law (gaya), rather than static museum displays. The author calls on cultural institutions to look beyond simple representation and embrace dynamic Indigenous epistemologies on their own terms.

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