Abstract
”Taiwan” is an instable concept in 17th century. The images of Taiwan aborigines that come from viewer's consciousness are different in Ming dynasty and VOC. Chen Di who writing ”Dongfan ji” (1603) came to Taiwan for twenty-one days in 1602. He described aborigines in the context distinguished Chinese from foreign. Furthermore, G. Candidius, the clergyman in VOC, wrote ”Discourse” in 1628. ”Discourse” shown certain stereotype was an important record of Taiwan aborigines for Western. Both ”Dongfan ji” and ”Discourse” are firsthand reports to research customs of Taiwan in 17th century. However, Chen Di came from China and G. Candidius came from West had different points of view to present aborigines. What appearance did they impress on in the tribe? Why did they choice to write ”something”? There are interesting questions for discussing ”others”. In this paper, I choose the topic of gender to analyze the concept of Chen Di and G. Candidius. For Chen Di, ”the kingdom of women” is a key concept to distinguish China and others. For G. Candidius, to reform the licentious relation, he tried his best to evangelize to Taiwan aborigines. Therefore, we can see the women in ”Dongfan ji” and ”Discourse” and discuss the relationship of represent, authority and discourse.