The Colonial 'Civilizing Process' in Dutch Formosa, 1624-1662
Biographical note
H. H. Chiu (1967) is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. She obtained her MA degree in Anthropology at National Taiwan University (NTU) and received her doctorate in History at Leiden University in 2007. Her main interests are historical and anthropological Austronesian studies.
Readership
All those interested in early Taiwanese history, the history of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples, the history of colonial encounters, and Austranesian studies.
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