RAS Shanghai – Nicolas Grevot on “Taiwanese Aborigines”
Posted: November 7th, 2013 | 1 Comment »Saturday 9th November 2013 at 4 PM (start 4:15 PM)
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NICOLAS GREVOT on
“Taiwanese Aborigines”
In a lecture that delves into an often-overlooked aspect of Taiwanese history and culture, Nicolas Grevot discusses the hardships faced by the island’s indigenous population in the face of colonial occupation.
Called “Formosa” (Beautiful island) by the Portuguese navigators that sailed by in the 17th century, Taiwan has been inhabited for at least 8,000 years by indigenous peoples known today as Taiwanese aborigines. Grevot will discuss who they are, how they fared throughout the history of the island, interacting with the Dutch colonial power, the Chinese/Han immigration, the Qing dynasty, the Japanese colonial authorities and the Kuomintang administration, and how they are living today in modern Taiwan.
Nicholas will also investigate how the ancestors of the Taiwanese aborigines began a long migration towards the Pacific area 6,000 years ago that gave birth to the Austronesian culture and Austronesian languages that are spoken today by close to 500 million people.
NICOLAS GREVOT: Nicolas Grevot, a French national, arrived in Shanghai in 2008 to follow his Taiwanese executive wife. He has not always been a trailing spouse. Before coming to Shanghai, he stayed for 15 years in Taiwan where he worked as a journalist. There, he fell in love with the island and its people, mostly its indigenous population. During this long stay, he built an important collection of cultural items from the Taiwanese aborigines (close to 300 items) that is now on loan to the Shisanhang Museum of Archeology, in Xin Taipei, Taiwan, and is regularly exhibited in the island. The collection can be seen on this website: www.formosatribal.com
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Hello,
I am a student of history, in the process of writing a thesis on dress of the Mizo people, living in the remote northeastern part of India.
As i browse through for sources, i tumbled upon your writings and it is pretty interesting because from the first time since i have read and seen the culture and traditional motifs of the Taiwanese aborigines, i have always found them to have striking similarities with that of the Mizo people who are also called Zo and to learn that there is a clan called the Tsou is absolutely thrilling.
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