Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Preface 1. What's in a Name? Culture, Identity, and the "Taiwan Problem" 2. Where Did the Aborigines Go? Reinstating Plains Aborigines in Taiwan's History 3. "We Savages Didn't Bind Feet": Culture, Colonial Intervention, and Long-Route Identity Change 4. "Having a Wife is Better than Having a God": Ancestry, Governmental Power, and Short-Route Identity Change 5. "They Came With Their Hands Tied Behind Their Backs": Forced Migrations, Identity Changes, and State Classification in Hubei 6. Theory and Politics: Understanding Choices at the Border to Han Notes References Character List Index

About the Author

Melissa J. Brown is Assistant Professor of Anthropological Sciences at Stanford University. She is the editor of Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan (1996).