Leeve Palray, also known as Yu Liang, is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Cornell University. As an Indigenous anthropologist hailing from ‘oponoho community in southern Taiwan, she writes about intersections of nationalism and Indigenous decolonization in post-WWII Taiwan, settler colonialism in East Asia, and the politics of indigeneity. In her dissertation, she explores the politics and genealogies of indigeneity about Taiwaneseness––an identity assemblage constituted by Han settler’s postcolonial pursuit for nativeness, as well as an identity reconfiguration in response to China’s territorial claims––and how the tension plays out in the battlefield of transitional justice.
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Remembering / Forgetting Koxinga amidst Taiwanese Settler Multiculturalism
In 1661, as Manchu Qing forces tightened their grip on China, Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong—known to the West as Koxinga—led his fleet to Taiwan’s shores and se... More