Doctoral Candidate in Asian Languages and Cultures & Anthropology
About
Raymond Hsu is currently pursuing a dual PhD in Asian Languages & Cultures (ALC) and in Anthropology at the University of Michigan under Rackham’s Individual Interdepartmental Degree Program (IIDP). Before attending Michigan, he conducted ethnographic research on Chinese ritual performance and abandoned deity icons at National Taiwan University.
His current dissertation project focuses on the political rights movements and religious revival of the indigenous Makatao people on the Pingtung Plain of southern Taiwan, whose revived cultural traditions include indigenous ancestral worship as well as Christianity and Chinese popular religions derived from the historical periods of Dutch colonization (1624-1662) and Chinese (Qing) imperial rule (1683-1895). His research examines how the Makatao people re-narrate the histories of serial colonization in their contemporary revival campaign from a bottom-up activist perspective.
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