台灣歷史 
Taiwan History
(slide presentation)
(e-book)

 

Taiwan Touch Your Heart (video)

 

History of Taiwanese Pop Songs

 

History of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan

 

 

 

Books about Taiwan

 

Let Taiwan be Taiwan
by Marc J. Cohen
(e-book)

 

Island in the Stream
by April Lin and Jerome Keating
(e-book)

 

Formosa Betrayed
by George Kerr
(e-book)

 

 

A Taste of Freedom
by Peng Ming-min
(e-book)

 

Formosa Calling
by Allan Shackleton
(e-book)

 

Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan
by Jonathan Manthorpe

 

Formosa Under the Dutch
by William Campbell

 

Spaniards in Taiwan by J.E. Borao Mateo

 

How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century
by Tonio Andrade
(e-book)

 

Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities by Melissa J. J. Brown

 

The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis of Chinese Culture
by Bo Yang

 

台灣血統
by Sim Kiantek

 

 

 

Links to Articles

* 我是台灣人，不是中國人連署運動

* Han Chauvinism

* Sinocentrism

* Sinophobia

* Taiwan's Desinicization Campaign

* What's in a Name? by Gary Schmitt

* From Chinese National Identity to Taiwanese Consciousness by Jessie Ching-Ni Liu

* Political Status of Taiwan

* The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the Advocacy of Local Autonomy by Christine L. Lin

* Taiwan's Gift to the World by Jared M. Diamond

** New Research Forces U-Turn in Population Migration Theory by University of Leeds

* Fujian (Minnan)

* Guangdong

* 台灣族群的遺傳基因-林媽利 (videos in Taiwanese)

* 從DNA 的研究看台灣原住民的來源 by 林媽利

* Heterogeneity of Taiwan's Indigenous Population by M. Lin, et al.

* Anthropologist Asks Provocative Question byPhilip Courtenay

* Taiwan: Who’s Your Mama? by Jerome F. Keating

* 基因研究己確認台灣人與中國人不同種 by Corinne W.

* 從醫學資料看臺灣的族群融合 by 陳順勝

* Origin of Taiwanese Aborigines by ARAI Takuji Lab

* Diversity of HLA Among Taiwan's Indigenous Tribes and the Ivatans in the Philippines by C.C. Chu, et al.

* mtDNA Provides a Link between Polynesians and Indigenous Taiwanese by PLOS Biology

* Biological Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Taiwan by Jen-yih (Albert )Chu

* 從免疫球蛋白看台灣人的血緣 by 朱真－

* Taiwanese Hakka: Origin--Modern Biological Studies by Albert Chu

* The Origin of Minnan & Hakka, the So-Called "Taiwanese" Inferred by HLA Study by Marie Lin

* 非原住民台灣人的基因結構 by 林媽利

* 台灣人的來源 by 林媽利

* 考古首次證實 台灣應是南島民族的發源地 by 盧太城

* 台灣人和印支半島族群的關係 by 鄭昭任

* Taiwan Muslims' Struggle to Survive by Ma Chao-Yen

* Shared Culture and Shared Ethnic Origin between the Taiwanese and the Chinese??? by Ching-chih Chen

* True History of Taiwan by Sim Kiantek

* 血統獨立by 沈建德

* Chinese

* History Map of East Asia for 2000 Years (video)

* 中国56个民族 56 Ethnic Groups in China (video)

* Debunking China's Yellow Emperor Myth by Ching-chih Chen

* 拋棄黃帝神話 by 陳清池

* How to Define a Population: Cultural Politics and Population Genetics in the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner 

* Stratification in the Peopling of China: How Far does the Linguistic Evidence Match Genetics and Archaeology? by Roger Blench, Mallam Dendo

* China History Unravelled by Mummies by Benjamin Robertson

* China: Minority Exclusion, Marginalization and Rising Tensions by Human Rights in China

* People's Republic of China and Weapons of Mass Destruction

* Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China

* The Ugly Chinese: Move Over Ugly American, Make Room for the Ugly Chinese by John Pomfret

 

Chinese Nationalism

 

憤怒青年
Angry Young Men

 

 

 

Recommended Books

 

Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds
by Howard Gardner

 

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children
by John Wood  

 

The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
by Erez Manela

 

God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
by John Dominic Crossan.

 

Shadow of the Silk Road
by Colin Thubron

 

Adventures and Encounters: Europeans in South-East Asia
by J.M. M. Gullick and J. M. Gullick

 

Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
by Ronald Findlay

 

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
by Timothy Brook

 

China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia
by Peter C. Perdue

Taiwan (Formosa) is an island nation located at the crossroad between Japan, China, Korea and Southeast Asia. There are common misperceptions that the Taiwanese are Chinese and that Taiwan is a part of China. Chinese immigrants brought a rich cultural heritage to Taiwan, but Taiwan is a melting pot of aborigines and immigrants from all over the world. Various colonial powers also left their genetic imprints on the people of Taiwan. And Taiwan was a province of the Chinese Empire for eight years only, from 1887 to 1895.

 

60% of the people in Taiwan consider themselves "Taiwanese only"

30% consider themselves "both Chinese and Taiwanese."

 

Is Taiwan a Nation-State? by Gerrit van der Wees

Is the US a Nation-State? by Gerrit van der Wees (page 7)

 

Hypotheses on Taiwanese Nationalism: A Talk by Perry Anderson by Richard Gunde (2004)

Men in Double Marginality---
Chinese Diaspora “at Home” by Ping Lin

Mainlanders, Cast Off Your Shackles by Paul Lin

 

 

 

DNA Profiles of "Han" Taiwanese

(Mulao, Miao, Yi, Maonan, Salar, Hui, Kyrgyz, Mongol, Tibetan are not ethnic Hans; they were not considered Chinese for most of China's history)

 

* Rachel Huang

Native Population Match: Thailand, Thailand, Basque (Alava, Spain), Java (Indonesia), Malay (Singapore), Balearic Islands (Spain), Ashkenazi (Budapest, Hungary), Eastern Anatolia (Turkey), Italy, Sicilia (Italy), Germany, Lille (France), Sicily (Italy), Marmara (Turkey), Javanese, Székely (Romania), Switzerland, Extremadura (Spain), Mulao (Guangxi), Kyrgyz (Xinjiang).

 

* Becky Lee

Native Population Match: Filipinos (Taiwan), Thailand, Miao (Guangxi), Mulao (Guangxi), Vietnam, Thailand, Miao (Guangxi), Thailand, Eastern Anatolia (Turkey), Malay (Singapore), Bidayuh (Sarawak, Malaysia), Chinese (Hong Kong), Vietnamese (Hanoi, Vietnam), Japan, Thailand, Bosnia, Taiwanese, Lille (France), Maonan (Guangxi), Han (Henan).

 

* David Chen

Native Population Match: Yi (Guangxi), Vietnam, Eastern China, Korea, Bangladesh, Korea, Han (Yan Bian), Thailand, Han (Min Nan), Paroja Tribal (Orissa, India), Taiwanese, Malay (Singapore), Central Japan, Northeast China, China, Korea, Gadaba Tribal (Orissa, India), Chinese (Hong Kong), Cambodia, Korea.

 

* Jong Lin

Native Population Match: Salar (Xunhua, Qinhai), Han (Shaanxi), Evenk (Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia), Henan, Han (Jiangsu), Evenk (Harbin), Lhasa (Tibet), Hui (Ningxia), Japan, Han (Jilin), Nepali (Sikkim, India), China, Eastern China, Beijing, Tibetan, Mongol (Wumeng, Inner Mongolia), Han (Hanzhong), Japan, China, Han (Henan).

 

* Allen Hwang

Native Population Match: Hui (Guangxi), Han (Min Nan), Sichuan, Mulao (Guangxi), China, Japan, Maonan (Guangxi), Mongol (Wumeng, Inner Mongolia), Han (Jilin), Japan, Korea, Japan, Miao (Guangxi), Japan, Han (Henan), Taiwanese, Han (Guangdong), Korea, Henan, Korea.

 

* Amanda Huang

Native Population Match: Ashkenazi (Budapest, Hungary), Bosnia, Banat and Transylvania (Western Romania), Tuscany (Italy), Thailand, Thailand, Miao (Guangxi, China), Bidayuh (Sarawak, Malaysia), Thailand, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, Malay (Singapore), Russia, Csango (Romania), Toulouse (France), Northern Portugal, Han (Beijing, China), Finland, Belarus, Belarus.

 

Click for more profiles

 

If you have done a DNA test and would like to contribute your DNA profile to TaiwanDNA.com please write to: DNA@TaiwanDNA.com

 

 

 

DNA Testing Companies

 

DNA Tribes
is the testing company used to obtain the DNA profiles. Its database contains population data from two Taiwanese aboriginal tribes: Ami and Atayal

 

 

 

 

 

For information on genetic testing visit DNA Tutorial

 

 

 

Books on DNA

 

DNA: The Secret of Life
by James D. Watson

 

The Seven Daughters of Eve
by Bryan Sykes

 

Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
by Spencer Wells

 

Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
by Spencer Wells

Videos:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

 

The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey out of Africa
by Stephen Oppenheimer

Videos:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

 

 

* Human Migration by Wikipedia.org

* Y-Chromosomal Adam

* Mitochondrial Eve

* International HapMap Project

 

 

The Human Genome Project

 

 

The Genographic Project

 

 

 

Celiac Disease

Most doctors assume that celiac desease is rare among Asians, but the celiac genes, DQ2 and DQ8, are not that uncommon in the Taiwanese population. Celiac disease is a hereditary intolerance to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and oats. It is a serious disease that can lead to autoimmune disorders and cancer. Celiac disease is associated with diabetes, thyroid disease, autoimmune liver disease, cardiomyopathy, rheumatoid arthritis, Addison's disease, osteoporosis, peripheral neuropathy, migraines, depression, and infertility. Patients with celiac disease are at high-risk for thyroid cancer, adenocarcinoma of the small intestine, lymphoma, esophageal cancer, melanoma, and malignancy in childhood. Strict avoidance of gluten is the only way to treat celiac disease (Click to read more about celiac disease).

 

* Health Check USA Celiac gene test.

 

 

 

Taiwanese Cinema

 

A City of Sadness
(video)

 

Vive L'Amour

 

Eat Drink Man Woman 　(video)

 

Yi Yi
(video)

 

Three Times
(video)

 

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(video)

 

Lust, Caution
(video)

 

Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island
by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell Davi

Click for informotion on Taiwanese Cinema

 

 

U.S. Sees More Beijing Missiles Aimed at Taiwan
by Richard Halloran

 

Blogs

敢有人知影河洛客e來源？

Taiwanese DNA Blog by socialforce.tw

DNATribes Test/Analysis Results Log
by Charles F. Kerchner

 

 

 

Links to Great Websites

Taiwanese Aborigines

The indigenous people of Taiwan have been living on Taiwan for over 10,000 years. Emigrants from Taiwan spread the Austronesian language from Madagascar to Polynesia.

Click to read more

 

 

European Origins

Portuguese

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Portuguese DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Dutch

The VOC (The Dutch East Indian Company) occupied Taiwan from 1623 to 1662.

Articles on Dutch DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

Spanish

The Spaniards occupied Taiwan from 1625 to 1642.

Articles on Spanish DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

Basque

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Basque DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Swiss

Swiss mercenaries served in the Spainish colonies.

Articles on Swiss DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

Russian

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Russian DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Finnish

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Finnsh DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Romanian

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Romanian DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

French

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on French DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

German

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on German DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Italian

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Italian DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Bosnian

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Bosnian DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Székely

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Szekely DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

 

Middle Eastern/African Origins

Tunisian

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Tunisian DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Turkish

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Turkish DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Arab

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Also refer to the articles on the Hui people

Articles on Arab DNA, history, culture

 

 

Jewish

(Ashkenazi)

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Jewish DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Central Asian Origins

Salar

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Salar DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Mongolian

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Mongolian DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Kyrgyz

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Kyrgyz DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Evenki

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Evenki DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Tibetan

Refer to DNA profiles.

Articles on Tibetan DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

 

South Asian Origins

Bhutanese

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Bhutanese DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Nepali

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Nepali DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Indian

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Indian DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

 

Southeast Asian Origins

Thai

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Thai DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Malay

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Malay DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Filipino

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Filipino DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Vietnamese

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Vietnamese DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Cambodian

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Cambodian DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Javanese

Refer to the DNA profiles.

 

Articles on Javanese DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

East Asian Origins

Japanese

Japanese merchants used Taiwan as a trading base before the Dutch arrival in 1623. From 1895 to 1945, Japan ruled Taiwan as part of the Japanese Empire

Articles on Japanese DNA, history, culture

 

Korean

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Korean DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Guangxi Minorities:

Yi

Mulao

Maolan

Miao

Click to read more

 

Hui

Refer to the DNA profiles.

Articles on Hui DNA, history, culture

 

 

 

 

Manchu

The Manchu Qing army invaded Taiwan in 1683. Manchu rule was nominal until 1887 when Taiwan became a province of the Qing Empire.

Articles on Manchu DNA, history, culture

 

 

Chinese

There were three waves of Chinese immigration to Taiwan: 1. during the Dutch occupation of Taiwan, 2. when Koxinga defeated the Dutch, 3. during WWII.

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