Table of Contents:
  • What's in a name? : culture, identity, and the "Taiwan problem"
  • Where did the aborigines go? : reinstating plains aborigines in Taiwan's history
  • "We savages didn't bind feet" : culture, colonial intervention, and long-route identity change
  • "Having a wife is better than having a god" : ancestry, governmental power, and short-route identity change
  • "They came with their hands tied behind their backs" : forced migrations, identity changes, and state classification in Hubei
  • Theory and politics : understanding choices at the border to Han.