The Chinese came late to Taiwan. The 17th-century Chinese emperors called Taiwan’s native people “Eastern Savages”. The Portuguese navigators, who sighted Taiwan in their peregrinations during Europe’s “Age of Discovery” called Taiwan Ilha Formosa (Beautiful Island), a name that stuck. The fossilised skull fragment of Tsochen Man. Formosa became a highly political term, however, when it was expropriated by the Taiwan independence movement after the a…