Getting closer with Taiwan's aboriginal culture- Part 1

Austronesia of festival have already held for 10 years since 1999,during 10 years,



they changed 3 different held government orgnization, each are:

• Department of Culture and Tourism of Taitung County Government


• Indigenous People Bureau


• Tourism and Travel Bureau,

At the beining, this festival was held on December, and they discovered that this was the wrong

season for Taitung county to held this event, because of that main point event such like

aborigine's harvest festival, almost held in summer time, this though that Austronesia of Festival

if held in winter is not suit for the season and cultural reason over there, and this festival was not

increase visitors came to Taitung at that time, according to new Taiwan magazine in 2003

vol. 354 mention about the project plan team cannot attract people to visit this county by

aboriginal culture and unable to push local tourism by the culture natural resource and tourism

resource over there.

This is what I'm going to research about 'how to make visitors return?', Taitung has most

popular of aborigine people, there have natural tourism resource, but if they cannot keep

visitors by this festival which is the main county promote festival, how can they popularize

this culture to oversea visitors, even Taiwaneses?

Make it Happened, the beginning, Part 3

In this stage, I'm searching for similar festivals in the countries which around the Pacific Ocean, why have I chosen the Pacific Ocean? Austronesian, according to David Blundell presented in 2003, Austronesia is extends from Taiwan to the Chilean territory of Easter Island, from Borneo to Madagascar, in this area, the aborigine people all called for Austronesian; the Austronesian culture was ignored for most countries of the world at past, nowadays, become an important affair and re-discussed. Do you know, the Maori people who lived in Australia speak same language with one of ethnic aborigine in Taiwan which called "Paiwan"? And, the artistic products between austronesian in TW and Maori have similar image as well, it's attract me to researched the aborigine festival which come from other countries and in the Pacific Ocean. Festival of Pacific Arts is a festival held for every 4 years, the host country is defferent each hold year sicnce 1972, aim at share and exchange each cultures at this festival, the participants are increasing compare with past. The important experience that Taiwan have to learn from this festival is, they"makes a significant contribution to the evolution of Pacific Island identities", nowadays, the aborigine festivals held in Taiwan become add too much commercial element, traditional cultural meaning disappear very quickly, this is one of main point that I want to research and do questionnaire to visitors ask about what kind of aborigine culture image influence you during this festival? Are we promo our aborigine culture successful? Most people knew that Maori come from Australia, do you know Taiwan have aborigine people as same as well?

Make it Happened, the beginning, Part 2

Actually, i've already prepared my dissertation context since october,

because i knew that this festival is really hard to get any databases,

for example: visitor amount, in Taiwan, there is almost no any research about festival,

especially the aspect of "culture impact", no matter from government or individual

research,therefore, i'm trying to get some relationship from local people,

especially the planner from thisfestival and local expert.This vacation,

i was back to Taiwan and go to the county which held this Austronesian of festival,

and got some useful information from my university teacher then went to Taitung for

searchingsome experts and planner,it was really funny because i knew some people from

Taitung, they knew these of experts,that day, this famous expert had other event,

i went to their and help them for their event,i was trying to introduced myself from my

ability in help this event,after that, I got a host job among this event and impression them, therefore, they gave me other useful information after the event, now I have some people who are powerful in Taiwan's culture industry and related with The Festival of Austronesian, I am going to contact with them

and trying to do some interviews about as they know development within this event.

Make it Happened, the beginning, Part 1

Wooooo, about the dissertation, I already thought about that since school opened,
at the beginning, I was effected from Peter's first assignment which talk about financial of some main festivals held in London, at that time, I used to be focus on London Fashion Week, so that, I wanted to research about fashion brand(didn't decided) how to hold event to promotion their brand image. However, one of my friend told me" why don't you do some special topic? It's really normal in western country." Therefore, I was started to think about some special topic and try so hard, so I just though that I'm come from Taiwan and we have aborigine culture, and also, there have some special festivals, it is make me curious to understand their culture, so now, I'm change to research about our aborigines and going to choose one of main festival to investigate.



Yi-Wen H