Abstract
This study aims to from the eyes of westerner, take a very close look into the scenery, and its ever-changing nature, of Pingtung plain with the superimposed image approach. By re-visiting the overlooked travelogue in the time interval of 1860 to 1890, the Westerners’ Eyes: Scenes of Pingtung plain inspires to reshape the overall connections among the landscape, society and culture of Pingtung. A more vivid, sophisticated image that reflects westerners’ view at the time can be drawn from these literatures which is sorted on decade basis. With superimposed image methodology based on westerners monologues, the originally flat, trivial pieces of information will be used as the elements that ultimately grows into an organic, lively picture – images of evolution of villages, way of living for indigenous tribes, changes and fixation on custom and construction, how people choose their spouses and how they get married – a picture that we can not only read but feel and even live.