The following excerpt is from an article posted in the June 18, 2012 edition of Taiwan Today.
Renowned writer and mountaineer Yang Nan-jun released his translated and annotated edition of “The Formosan Native Tribes: A Genealogical and Classificatory Study” June 15 at National Taiwan University in Taipei City.
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Yang scaled Taiwan’s 100 highest peaks in the 1970s, and helped discover several unknown aboriginal migration routes. He has published dozens of books combining accounts of his expeditions with histories of aboriginal groups, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by National Dong Hwa University’s College of Indigenous Studies in 2010.
The two-volume work holds the key to understanding the lifestyles and societies of the Formosan indigenous tribes of a century ago, according to NTU, as it traces the territories, migrations, myths and genealogies of over 309 families from 291 tribal villages.
