Region: Taiwan
Bibliography
Primary sources
Coyet, Fredrik and Inez de Beauclair. Neglected Formosa: A Translation from the Dutch of Frederic Coyett's Verwaerloosde Formosa 1620. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1975.Nuyts, Pieter. Manuscript Document Signed to the Director of the Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie: Dated Zeelandia [i.e. Taiwan] 10 February 1629. University of Minnesota Library.
Schmalkalden, Caspar. Die wundersamen Reisen des Caspar Schmalkalden nach West- und Ostindien, 1642-1652. Edited by Wolfgang Joost (Leibzig: Brockhaus, 1983).
Caspar Schmalkalden was a soldier on service in the Dutch army when he travelled to the Dutch occupied areas in the world. From 1642 to 1645 he visited Brazil and Chile and a short time after that, from 1646 to 1652, he was traveling in the Dutch East India areas. In his posthumous work, which was published for the first time three hundred years after it first appeared, Schmalkalden described not only his experience in the sea, but also the places he visited, the people there, their customs and behaviors, as well as many tropical plant and animal species. What he saw is illustrated through a number of pen drawings, aquarelles and cardboard drawings and recorded in his notebooks. With the first edition of Caspar Schmalkalden's travelogue, a further source of our cultural heritage is revealed. It contains an inspirational document of colonial and cultural history of the 17th century. [Sicong Zhu]
Struys, Jan Janszoon, D. Butler and John Morrison. The Perilous and Most Unhappy Voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan and other Places. London: Princes Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1683.
Valentijn, François. Oud En Nieuw Oost-Indiën : Vervattende Een Naaukeurige En Uitvoerige Verhandelinge Van Nederlands Mogentheyd in Die Gewesten, Benevens Eene Wydluftige Beschryvinge Der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor En Solor, Java, En Alle De Eylanden Onder Dezelve Landbestieringen Behoorende : Het Nederlands Comptoir Op Suratte, En De Levens Der Groote Mogols : Als Ook Een Keurlyke Verhandeling Van 't Wezentlykste Dat Men Behoort Te Weten Van Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap Der Goede Hoop En Van Mauritius : Te Zamen Dus Behelzende Niet Alleen Eene Zeer Nette Beschryving Van Alles, Wat Nederlands Oost-Indien Betreft, Maar Ook 't Voornaamste Dat Eenigzins Tot Eenige Andere Europeërs, in Die Gewesten, Betrekking Heeft. Franeker: Van Wijnen, 2002.
This book, written by François Valentijn, discusses the different countries that the Dutch East India Company traded with in the Far East. Valentijn spent sixteen years in the East Indies as a minister, and he lived in tropical locales such as Java and Ambon. This book contains more than a thousand illustrations, including the most up-to-date maps of the eighteenth century. [Tami Latta]
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Secondary sources
Andrade, Tonio. How Taiwan became Chinese Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Full text online ebook
---. “The Rise and Fall of Dutch Taiwan, 1624-1662: Cooperative Colonization and the Statist Model of European Expansion.” Journal of World History 17, no. 4 (2006): 429-50.
Tonio tracks the historical development of European control in Taiwan between 1623 and 1662, focusing on the Dutch and Chinese interactions, both with the people and government of Taiwan and with each other. Through an investigation of the cooperation and competition between the Dutch and Chinese colonizers of Taiwan, the text seeks to address larger questions including the role of the colonial movement in the shaping of the modern world. A key theme that runs through the text is that of “co-colonization,” Tonio’s term which references the complex cultural relationship between the Dutch East India Trading Company and wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs, all of whom sought to make a profit from their Taiwanese colonies and operations. Published both in hard copy and in an ebook, the electronic version provides the reader with high quality maps and images that enhance one’s understanding of the material. [Lauren M. Freese]Reviews available for consultation:
Hostetler, Laura. Reviewing How Taiwan became Chinese Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, by Tonio Andrade. American Historical Review 115, no. 1 (February 2010): 204-205.
Van Dyke, Paul. Reviewing How Taiwan became Chinese Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, by Tonio Andrade. Journal of Asian Studies 67, no. 4 (November 2008): 1407-1408.
[Lauren M. Freese]
Blussé, Leonard. “No Boats to China: The Dutch East India Company and the Changing Pattern of the China Sea Trade, 1635--1690.” Modern Asian Studies 30, no. 1 (1996): 51-76.
Campbell, William. Formosa under the Dutch Described from Contemporary Records, with explanatory notes and a bibliography of the island. Taipei: Ch'eng-wen Publishing Company, 1967.
Du, Zhengsheng. Ilha Formosa: The Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century. Taipei: Hwang Chao-sung, 2003. http://www.npm.gov.tw/exhibition/formosa/english/index.htm
Hsin-hui Chiu. 2008. The Colonial 'Civilizing Process' in Dutch Formosa, 1624-1662. Boston: Brill, 2008.
Knappert, L. “Hollandsche pioniers op Formosa.” Nederlands Archief Voor Kerkgeschiedenis 19, no. 1 (1926): 97-121.
Massarella, Derek. “Chinese, Tartars and “Thea” or a Tale of Two Companies: The English East India Company and Taiwan in the late seventeenth century.“ Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3, no. 3 (1993): 393-426.
Shepherd, John Robert. Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Shouqian, Shi and Eveline Oranjie. 福尔摩沙:十七世紀的臺灣, 荷蘭與東亞 (Taipei: National Palace Museum, 2003).
Tsai, Shih-shan Henry. 2009. Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2008.