About - Frank MUYARD

Frank Muyard is Associate Professor and Head of the Taipei Center at the École française d’Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies, EFEO). Frank Muyard received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Montreal in 2001, after training in modern Chinese history and sinology at the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris. His main areas of research are the history, sociology, and archaeology of Taiwan and China. His work focuses on nationalism and cultural identity, the writing of national history, and the question of modernity in East Asian and Western societies. He is currently researching the history of Taiwanese archaeology, indigenous archaeology, and the protohistory of southern China. His recent publications include Taiwan Maritime Landscapes from Neolithic to Early Modern Times, edited with Paola Calanca & Liu Yi-chang, Paris, EFEO, 2022, “The Role of Democracy in the Rise of the Taiwanese National Identity,” in A New Era in Democratic Taiwan (J. Sullivan & C. Lee eds., 2018), “Taiwan Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples,” in Archaeology, History and Indigenous Peoples (L. Hung ed., 2016), and “Comparativism and Taiwan Studies: Analyzing Taiwan in/out of Context, or Taiwan as an East Asian New World Society,” in Comparatizing Taiwan (S. Shih & P. Liao eds., 2015).