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Formosan Alder - Ecological Knowledge and Sustainability (Personal Views on TaipeiTimes Article)

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A Day in Mongolia @ The Mongolian and Tibetan Cultural Center (蒙藏文化中心) Taipei A fabulous artwork featuring Mongolia ecology and society  including Slash-and-burn farming, Forestry, Hide tanning, Shamanism, Deer hunting, Buddhism stone altar. A few personal points of view about Michael Turton's informative and well-researched Taipeitimes article:  "Notes from Central Taiwan: What the Japanese learned from indigenous farmers" I. The cover photo should be about Mudan Incident and "The Japanese soldiers" should be  Saigō Tsugumichi   西郷 従道 and his troop. The indigenous should be Paiwan. Two Japanese commanders were identified in the photo. (The 1871 Mudan Incident involved the killing of 54 Ryukyuan sailors by Paiwan people (specifically from Mudan and Kuskus villages) in southern Taiwan after a shipwreck, resulting in a Japanese punitive expedition in 1874 . ) II. There are two Kada 賀田   -  Kinzaburo Kada ( 賀田金三郎 , 1857-1922) and his son-in-law Naoji Kada...