tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post2703964975381768934..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Paper On Parade: Cultural Brokerage, Japanese Subalterns, Aborigine WivesMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-25791636274105760002009-02-17T12:03:00.000+08:002009-02-17T12:03:00.000+08:00I love Taiwanese history, especially when it comes...I love Taiwanese history, especially when it comes to the aborigines. So little is known by most peopleFormosan at Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06797661183143211860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-15877640010106440092008-11-06T18:28:00.000+08:002008-11-06T18:28:00.000+08:00please more Taiwan aboriginal history stuff. I dig...please more Taiwan aboriginal history stuff. I dig it!Sunrisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04605298288303731886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-73683745741681748332008-11-05T23:19:00.000+08:002008-11-05T23:19:00.000+08:00Thank for posting my article on your blog. It is t...Thank for posting my article on your blog. It is truly gratifying to think someone might actually read something so detailed and bogged down with footnotes, etc. If readers of this article wish to look at other works of similar theme, Michael's link to the original article will provide access to pdf files of my other attempts to contribute to the history of this most beautiful and interesting of islands. Here it is again:<BR/><BR/>http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~barclayp/cv.htmlhistoryguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12504357647564760172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-92079366688816857172008-10-28T07:19:00.000+08:002008-10-28T07:19:00.000+08:00More demonstrations of the ethnic and cultural flu...More demonstrations of the ethnic and cultural fluidity of peoples in Taiwan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-41027721142425862662008-10-28T06:39:00.000+08:002008-10-28T06:39:00.000+08:00Fall of 1977, at the Shida students' dining hall. ...Fall of 1977, at the Shida students' dining hall. An overheard Japanese conversation. Two freshmen hailing from the east coast, talking quietly. Born in two neighboring abo tribes, no shared Formosan language available.<BR/><BR/>Why, then, not use the Guoyu they had been taught at school and were preparing themselves to teach? They wanted to chat, their conversation unhindered by the thought of the dreaded spies’ presence among students.<BR/><BR/>It was 25 years since Japan had relinquished sovereignty over her territory of Taiwan. And it was 32 years since the KMT had commandeered that Japanese territory they only had mandate to occupy, pending a treaty-based decision on its status. During those 32 years the KMT had spared no effort in erasing Japan and its culture from the Formosans’ mind. <BR/><BR/>How could the freshmen of 1977 have mastered that language? At home, besides their respective ethnic language, they had been spoken to in Japanese since early childhood. Their parents had been schooled in that language, the first to be spoken island-wide. The language that propelled Formosa into the Twentieth Century, while connecting it to the world. <BR/><BR/>To the former Imperial subjects, the Celestials’ language was foreign. To their tongue, it has retained that alien tang. <BR/><BR/>Formosans of all hue and stripe, return to your GENTEN (原点), revert to Japanese for the world to take notice, at long, long last (as Dennis Wilder might quip). <BR/><BR/>By the way, Dennis, on quitting your outfit, leave a note praising Mark Ole’Glue Ma. The fastest Ole’ Glue gets the Formosans unhinged, the fastest Taiwan will put its present SFPT-based interim status behind. Got it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-69037027859210640732008-10-27T15:22:00.000+08:002008-10-27T15:22:00.000+08:00Duh, that'll teach me not to scan...Thanks!Duh, that'll teach me not to scan...<BR/><BR/>Thanks!Taffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07552798575774780528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-28242721900771071142008-10-27T15:21:00.000+08:002008-10-27T15:21:00.000+08:00No, haven't seen Cape 7 yet.Taffy, the paper is li...No, haven't seen Cape 7 yet.<BR/><BR/>Taffy, the paper is linked at the top.<BR/><BR/>MichaelMichael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-29840745135932419772008-10-27T10:35:00.000+08:002008-10-27T10:35:00.000+08:00Very interesting excerpts there Michael - that's a...Very interesting excerpts there Michael - that's a paper I'd like to read in full.<BR/><BR/>We really need a central bibliography site to record all these articles and books about Taiwan. Do you know of anything resembling this?<BR/><BR/>TaffyTaffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07552798575774780528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-84457149302952418152008-10-27T02:45:00.000+08:002008-10-27T02:45:00.000+08:00Michael, just curious, have you seen Cape No. 7?Michael, just curious, have you seen Cape No. 7?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com