Different maps depict dissimilar worlds; and likewise, different historical viewpoints reveal dissimilar pasts.
Lien Heng, noted scholar on Taiwanese history and literature, prefaces his General History of Taiwan (1920): “Taiwan assuredly has no history. […] It is but a barren island in the sea.”
But is this really the case?
The history of a written language never equates to a region’s past;
the land has never been confined to the discourses of others.
So gazing upon the past of Taiwan from local perspectives,
may allow us to discover the shape of prehistoric society in Taiwan from archaeological findings
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