Studying the narratives concerning. Han-Taiwanese's identity in the early twentieth-century when they were under Japanese rule, we have two major findings. First, contemporary anthropologist, Kanori Ino's discourse on ”this-islanders” (hontojin) initiated a series of Japanese commentaries on Taiwanese ”bandits”, which stereotyped the bottom stratum of the Han-colonized. Secondly, after two decades of the colonial rule, what informed Han-Taiwanese of their fundamental identities were still the moral teachings of traditional China, specifically Mencius' doctrine of a ”real man” and an image of gentleman syncretized from the lessons of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.