Inauguration of Indigenous Radio Alian 96.3 / Alian 96.3原住民族廣播電台開播

A story about IPCF and me in The Journalist No. 1586 (2017), pp. 14-15. 《新新聞》2017年第1586號14-15頁

The Best Times: Grandma's Song

First editorial for IPCF Bimonthly（原視界雙月刊）Volume 16 (June 2017): 3.

Language helps uncover true beauty of indigenous culture, says expert

Taranaki Daily News June 27 2017, New Plymouth New Zealand

The Travels of Ibn Battutah (2003)

In his Great Voyages Lecture "Traveler's Tips from the 14th Century: The Detours of Ibn Battutah" (December 4th, 2013), Professor Paul Cobb offers his audience these five tips to travel: Keep an Open Mind, Go to School, Bring Snacks, Plan on Changing Plans and Make Friends. 

Despite of their ordinariness, we must also do these tips justice by recognizing their source of inspiration, that is Ibn Battutah (1304~1368 or 1369), a medieval traveler from the 14th century and a voice from the less-known Arabic world, to compared with his Venetian contemporary, Marco Polo (1254~1324). 

1688: A Global History (2001)

Professor John E. Wills, recently deceased in January 2017 at the age of 80, is a wonderful writer and a great source of early modern world history. 

Like the Canadian historian Timothy Brook (1951-), they go far and wide, portraying for readers a world from bygone days, yet filled with so much life and even more vivid details. Under their pen, the world of the 17th century is as lively as the one we are living in now. 

The year of 1688 is Wills's focal point. He travels back and forth in time, journeying from continent to continent, from port cities to courts, from trade to religion, from material goods to metaphysical letters to bring us how the world looked like around that particular year...

The Renaissance of Formosan Languages

Presentation at National Dong Haw University (Hualien, Taiwan) on 7th March 2017.

Punctuation and Writing Format of Aboriginal Written Languages

Published in Aboriginal Educational World 73 (March, 2017): 66-69.

The Return of Martin Guerre (1983)

When I was doing my Research MA in history at Leiden (2010-2012), the type of history that I was trying to write brought my supervisors to recommend Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929-, French), Carlo Ginzburg (1939-, Italian) and Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-, American/Canadian Jew) to me.

History people would probably spot why now. 

Le Roy Ladurie wrote a fantastic book about a rural village called Montaillou in the early fourteenth century (1973); Ginzburg's book on the religious beliefs and world views of a miller Menocchio from the sixteenth century is equally inspiring (1976); and Davis's Martin Guerre from another village Artigat in Southern France of the early sixteenth century remains a popular read ever since its publication (1983). 

What their craftsmanship commonly celebrates is the possibility for a historian to, in Davis's words, "recreate...reinvigorate...and give back...name" ("Being Speculative is better than not to do it at all", 2015) to the people or individuals who are often otherwise passed by, if not silenced, in the history of mankind. They have worked on Europeans to show that; perhaps, as my supervisors thought, it would be nice for the novice, me, to attempt the same for indigenous peoples. 

Indigenous Language Teaching Methods in Indigenous Language Revitalization Projects

Published in Taiwan Educational Review Monthly (Vol. 5 No. 9, 1st September 2016):16-20.

A Few Comments on Translating Western Literature into Formosan Languages: The Case of The Little Prince

Published in Indigenous Peoples Quarterly (Summer, No. 2), 2016: 60-63.