Prof. Scott Simon to speak on Seediq Bale @ Academia Sinica

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April 29, 2013January 11, 2015 Trista di Genova 0 Comment aboriginal culture in Taiwan, aboriginal history, academia sinica, Austronesian language and cultures, CEFC Taipei, Ethnography, Japanese in Taiwan, Professor anthropologist Scott Simon, Taiwan history, Taiwan history in film, Taiwan-French relations, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, writers, writers on Taiwan

Anthropologist Scott Simon will be speaking at Academia Sinica in Taipei on May 6 at 2:30pm, on the topic “Sadyaq Balae! State and Indigeneity on Formosa” in Room B202, RCHSS Academia Sinica (map) Like indigenous peoples around the globe, the Austronesian peoples of Formosa (Taiwan) have lost their sovereignty because

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One Taiwanese Would Kiss All of Paris

November 3, 2009 Trista di Genova 3 Comments dating, kiss, paris, relationships, Taiwan, Taiwan-French relations, Ya-ching Yang

by Dan Bloom Special to The Wild East A kiss just a kiss. Or is it? A Taiwanese woman named Ya-ching Yang has become famous around the world for a blog she set up about pursuing 100 kisses from Parisian men. Based on a whim she had three years ago,

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