Definitions
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- proper noun plural collective An
aboriginal people native toTaiwan . - proper noun countable A person of Paiwan descent.
- proper noun uncountable The
Formosan language of the Paiwan people. - adjective Of or relating to the Paiwan people.
- adjective Of or relating to the Paiwan language.
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Examples
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Chen Wei-chih, a 24-year-old Aborigine from the ''Paiwan'' tribe on the island's east coast, became a career officer in the battalion after peers in his home village convinced him to join the military.
Two for Saturday Michael Turton 2009
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Chen Wei-chih, a 24-year-old Aborigine from the ''Paiwan'' tribe on the island's east coast, became a career officer in the battalion after peers in his home village convinced him to join the military.
Archive 2009-01-01 Michael Turton 2009
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The original Paiwan people were moved to Pingtung 100 years ago by the Japanese government.
Archive 2008-07-01 Michael Turton 2008
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The Japanese had moved quickly to establish Japanese language schools among the Paiwan in the south by 1896, says Barclay, but in the turbulent north matters took a different turn, and the Japanese were forced to engage in the complexities of local marriage politics.
Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Turton 2008
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On the eve of the Japanese invasion in 1874, American naturalist Joseph Steere confirmed the role of Aborigine women as mediators in commerce between mountain and plain: The Kale-whan [Paiwan], in times of scarcity, frequently sell their daughters to the Chinese and Pepo-whans [Peipoban/Pingpufan], who take them as supplementary wives and make them useful as interpreters in thus bartering with the savages.
Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Turton 2008
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The people who live in X today came to that place after the Paiwan moved.
Archive 2008-07-01 Michael Turton 2008
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"Well, here I am!" he said. 85 McGovern also found that, among the Paiwan (one of the main aboriginal peoples of Taiwan), the killing of strangers was considered an act of self-defense unless those strangers had fair hair and blue eyes — this, too, she interprets as evidence that the Dutch were revered.
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The Paiwan there are not the original Paiwan from the area.
Archive 2008-07-01 Michael Turton 2008
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A rattan staff was preserved by a Paiwan chiefly family well into the twentieth century. 86 The symbol of the rattan staff also appears to have inspired the rattan wand still used today by certain shamanesses. 87
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Today in Taiwan we hear about the American or European climbing methods, but Taiwan also has its own methods -- the Paiwan, the Rukai, the Bunung, all have their own way.
Archive 2008-07-01 Michael Turton 2008
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