Jason Wright and Andrew Kerslake Corrects the Taipei Times

My friend Jason Wright has a fabulous smackdown in the editorial pages today of certain errors in a recent article on the Tao people of Taiwan in the Taipei Times. Great work, guys!

Phipps' assertion that the Tao took part in raids on the Fujian coast can also be taken as further evidence of the common confusion many casual observers encounter when differentiating between Taiwan's Aboriginal tribes. While there are accounts of warriors from the southwestern Siraya plains tribe going on raids across the Taiwan Strait before the Dutch era, such stories are merely anecdotal and tend to reinforce the stereotypical view that prior to their subjugation by the Han people, Taiwan's Aborigines were violence-prone savages.

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