A Brief Review on the Researches of Cultural Relationship Between Indigenous Bai Yue in Southeast of China and Pacific Austronesian

Abstract Ancient “ Bai Yue ” (百越) and Austronesian are indigenous peoples with very close relationship, distributing from south China, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands. The relationship between Proto-Austronesian has long been studied in both Chinese Euro-American academies. During most of twentieth century, historians archaeologists mainly discussed origins Malay ethnics as one branch within academic framework ethno-history centering on southeast coast while western peers based linguistic investigation modern carried out multi-disciplines’ research origin Proto-Austronesian.