Chih-Huei Huang

 

Research Area: Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan

 

Specialty: Socio-cultural Anthropology, Japan Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Ethnology,
   Ethno-history, Formosan indigenous peoples, Religion Studies,

My research interests and consequent publications have been developed in a variety of directions:

 

(1) the post-colonial situation in Taiwan after the Japanese rule; a complex system after the two layered colonization.

(2) the ethnic affiliation among the Southern Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and Batanes; to reconstruct the ethno-history of the small islands around the ”East Taiwan Sea.”  

(3) studies of Japanese Religion both in Taiwan and Japan;

(4) the impact of Japanese colonialism on the knowledge of Anthropology in Taiwan,

(5) action anthropology on the Formosan indigenous peoples
 

Address:

Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
Tel  ＋886-2-2652-3454
Fax ＋886-2-2785-5836　　　　　　　　
Email  etwisdom@sinica.edu.tw
 

　　B.A., 1982

　　Department of Archaeology and Anthropology National Taiwan University, Taipei

　　M.A., 1988

　　Department of Anthropology, National Osaka University, Osaka

　　Ph.D candidate, 1991

　　Department of Anthropology, National Osaka University

   
 

1997

 Indigenous People’s Language Translation Prize, Ministry of Education, R.O.C.
(for edited volume: Commission for the Investigation of Old Customs in Formosa, Governor-General’s Office of Taiwan, Survey Reports on the Customs of the Formosan Aborigines, Vol. 1, Atayal Tribe. Chinese edition. Taipei: The Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, 1996.)
1999 Indigenous People’s Language Translation Prize, Ministry of Education, R.O.C.
(for edited volume: Commission for the Investigation of Old Customs in Formosa, Governor-General’s Office of Taiwan, Survey Reports on the Customs of the Formosan Aborigines, Vol. 3, Saisiat Tribe. Chinese edition. Taipei: The Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, 1998.)
   

Publications in English:
（Publications and PDF in Japanese or Chinese please see front pages）

2001 “The Yamatodamashi of the Takasago Volunteers of Taiwan: A Reading of the Postcolonial Situation.” in Harumi Befu and Sylvie Guichard-Anguis eds., Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe, and America, pp.222–250. London: Routledge.
 
2001 “Culture at root of Yasukuni issue.” THE DAILY YOMIURI, p. 6, Sep. 11, Tokyo: THE DAILY YOMIURI.
2003 “The Transformation of Taiwanese Attitudes toward Japan in the Post-colonial Period.” in Narangoa Li and Robert Cribb eds., Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia, 1895-1945, pp.296–314. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
2007 “Japan has to repay its moral debt to Taiwan,” TAIPEI TIMES, Nov. 9, 2007, p. 8.