ABSTRACT
Let me commence with a story. Two hundred and forty years ago, Wu Feng, a Han Chinese government official who befriended Taiwanese aborigines, tried to convince the Tsou tribe, one of the fourteen Taiwanese aboriginal groups, to give up their practice of head-hunting. Realising his arguments had not been effective, Wu declared that the tribe could practice just one more ritual of head-hunting targeted on a man wearing a red cloak. The next day, Wu disguised himself in a red cloak, and a Tsou tribesman decapitated him. After Wu's sacrifice, the tribespeople realised how wrong they were to keep their head-hunting tradition, and gave up this practice forever. From that time on, Wu Feng became one of Taiwan's hero-models, one whose self-sacrifice benefited others (Wu Feng Historical Factual Studies Team of National Institute for Compilation and Translation 2).
