Taiwan Insight

Indigenous Storytelling in and Beyond the Classroom

Written by Yi-Yu Lai. One afternoon in 2011, Hong-sui Lim visited a Kaxabu village due to his participation in an anthropological camp. This marked his first encounter with the Kaxabu people, one of the Plain Indigenous groups inhabiting the Puli Basins in central Taiwan. Lim was astonished by the small number of Kaxabu elders who still speak their mother tongue, as it is commonly believed that Plain Indigenous peoples have been assimilated by Han Chinese culture and have lost their own languages and traditions. As a result, Lim returned to the Kaxabu communities as an undergraduate student to learn more about their endangered cultural heritage and began collaborating with the Kaxabu people.

Beyond Maps: Indigenous 3D Mapmaking as a Path to Indigenous Resurgence

Written by Sra Manpo Ciwidian. To assert Indigenous sovereignty over our land, especially the traditional territories, the Indigenous peoples of Taiwan have employed various approaches to demonstrate our rights. Making a three-dimensional map model of Indigenous communities is the most prevalent among these approaches. Since the late 1990s, when the Kucapungane community of Rukai people produced the first Indigenous 3D map model in Taiwan, contemporary Indigenous communities in Taiwan have been developing this community-based mapping method for over three decades.

Indigenous Youth Actions in Taiwan: Connecting Our Voices to the Global Stage

Written by Sra (Bo-Jun Chen). Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples are becoming increasingly concerned with various global issues that are also highly pertinent to our own situation in Taiwan, such as environmental, human rights, and cultural heritage issues. In recent years, for instance, Indigenous youth in Taiwan have realised the significance of language and identity revitalisation, which may assist us in combating oppression. Moreover, we have found that the insensitivity of our lands and ignorance of our history pose a far greater threat to us than the plundering of our resources and hazards to our lives. Some Indigenous youth are thus committed to overcoming obstacles influenced by colonialism and strive to bring our voices and agendas to the global stage. Through our participation on the international stage, we aspire to be heard and have more conversations about similar difficulties.

LGBT issues in 2019

11 February 2019 Editor

While many DPP supporters of same-sex marriage and LGBT rights more broadly (e.g. legislator Yu Mei-Nu) spoke out in favour of legalization, in large part they lacked a clear message that would appeal to the otherwise indifferent, making the job easier for anti-LGBT groups.

Taiwan’s Cultural Plurality and Immigration Policy

9 February 2019 Editor

Written by Ji-ping Lin. Much like many countries, Taiwan has a long historical tradition of migration, including internal and international. Taiwan’s early developments were

Taiwan’s population growth… or lack thereof

5 February 2019 Editor

Written by Marcus Roberts. The big demographic news out of Asia recently has been the “unstoppable” demographic decline that China is about to undergo thanks

Taiwan – shrinking and increasingly alone

4 February 2019 Editor

Written by Marcus Roberts. Once our three children are in bed (a process that can take some time, much to my frustration) I often relax

Mindfulness in Taiwan

1 February 2019 Editor

Written by Chung-Wei Lin Mindfulness originated from the early Buddhist classics referred to as “Samyukta-Agama” and “Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta”. Mindfulness are those teachings of the Buddha that were handed to the disciples, and which Buddhists believe are the direct path to realization. Mindfulness has four steps: mindfulness of the body

The Importance of Primary School Teachers’ Mental Health in Taiwan

31 January 2019 Editor

Written by Pei-Hsin Li “About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their

Tsai’s Domestic Troubles in 2019

30 January 2019 Editor

Written by Mark Weatherall and Kai-Ping Huang. For President Tsai Ing-wen, the shock win of the KMT candidate Han Kuo-yu in the mayoral election for

Cross-Strait relations 2019: Promoting and rejecting unification

29 January 2019 Editor

Written by Qi Dongtao. The dynamics of cross-Strait relations in 2019 were revealed by Taiwan and mainland China’s top leaders’ speeches in the first two

Cross-Strait Narratives of Now and the Future

28 January 2019 Editor

Written by Michael Mazza. Taiwan’s November 2018 nine-in-one elections looked like a major setback for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. The DPP won only six

Trump Withdrawing: Global Forces and Forecasting Taiwan in 2019 and Beyond (Part 2)

27 January 2019 Editor

Written by Ian Inkster. The first part of this paper outlined trends that could dominate discussions on Taiwan’s international position in 2019, providing a shaky

Trump Withdrawing: Global Forces and Forecasting Taiwan in 2019 and Beyond (Part 1)

26 January 2019 Editor

Written by Ian Inkster. Most social scientists now regard global dynamics as a complex system, more akin to a human body than to the workings

The 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Crisis: Three What Ifs?

26 January 2019 Editor

Written by Joseph A. Bosco. There has been much talk about the recent comments of a Chinese military official issuing a dire warning against the

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