Call Me by My Name: Taiwanese Indigenous Naming

This article, published by the Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation, describes the history of colonial naming practices imposed upon the island’s Indigenous peoples. The article begins by categorizing Taiwanese indigenous groups by their kinship-based naming system. It then discusses naming policies under the colonial governments of the Qing Dynasty, Japanese, and the current Republic of China. It concludes with an evaluation of the actual value (and harm) of transliterating indigenous names into Chinese