Book Review: The Nameless People – Taiwan’s Pingpu Peoples
The vivid stories of Pingpu youth in the book compel readers to confront the history of Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples and the cultural transformations embedded in that context.
The vivid stories of Pingpu youth in the book compel readers to confront the history of Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples and the cultural transformations embedded in that context.
Even though the plant world is vastly different from our world, upon closing the book I couldn’t help but make connections as a subjective reader—the people of Taiwan have the same story as the plants of Taiwan.
Are there any legends of giants in your culture? What do they look like? Do your people still know these legends well?
Panai came home, but the indigenous peoples of Taiwan are still telling their stories, on the journey of looking back, and on the journey of coming home.
It portrays how a nation can be reborn through self-reflection: as long as there are those who believe that human resolve can confront the relentless march of time, even the darkest nights hold the promise of a brilliant dawn of democracy and freedom.
Five years after Taiwan’s landmark marriage equality legislation, gradual updates to this law have led to an increasingly inclusive legal environment for LGBTQ+ residents.