Written by: John Balcom, Michael Berry, Chang Sung-sheng, Douglas Fix, Ji Birui, Kim Sang-ho, Kim Yang-su, Faye Yuan Kleeman, Lin Jenn-shann Jack, Miki Naotake, Park Jae-Woo, Ron Smith, Tu Kuo-ch’ing, Wu Chin-fa, Yim Choon-Sung

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Inhabited from the earliest times by Austronesian-speaking peoples, Taiwan has a population comprised of multiethnic cultures. Recorded as early as the 1650s during the period of Dutch rule, more than forty-nine tribes were living on the island. Today there are twelve aboriginal tribes registered by the Taiwanese government. With the Chinese ethnic line added by the Han Chinese immigration to the island, there have been two main lineages: One is the Austronesian family, which consists of more than ten tribes, and the other is the Han Chinese.
  
 
From An Alternative View on Taiwan and Its Cultural Diversity
By Wu Chin-fa
  

This volume publishes the results of fourteen papers delivered at the first international conference in Taiwan Studies, "Taiwan Imagined and Its Reality— An Exploration in Literature, History, and Culture." Convened in November 2004 by the Center for Taiwan Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, participants came from Taiwan, Korea, China, Japan, Canada, and the United States and engaged in stimulating presentations and discussions of their ideas centered around the following themes: Cultural Observations of Taiwan Before and After Repeal of Martial Law; Taiwan's Nativist Cultures and Foreign Influences; Construction of a History of Taiwan and of Taiwan Literature; and Retrospect and Prospect of Taiwan Literature in English Translation.

 

  
   
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