Tuesday, December 22, 2020

History of Taiwan - George Mackay

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                                                                  The Ho-be Mackay Hospital in Tamsui The Canadian missionary George Mackay ...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Contact between Dutch and Ainu in Tokugawa Japan

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Dutch-Ainu-Japanese vocabulary There is no evidence of the Dutch having contact with Ainu people  during the Tokugawa period. The Dut...
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Monday, December 16, 2019

A sign of true friendship

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As is well known, the Dutch (and other Europeans) went to Japan from the seventeenth century onwards for the purpose of trade. There w...
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Saturday, September 14, 2019

A recently-discovered translation from Dutch to Siraya

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It's not often in one's career that one comes across a book or manuscript that has lain 'hidden' for several hundred ...
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Saturday, August 3, 2019

Dutch loanwords in Taiwanese Hokkien

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The fort at Baimiwong, near Keelung, established by the Spanish and the Dutch on Taiwan S ome loanwords travel from one langua...
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Saturday, July 27, 2019

Dutch graffiti in Taiwan

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The Dutch East India Company had a trading post in southern Taiwan near modern-day Tainan from 1624 to 1662. They were eventually forced to...
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Sunday, July 21, 2019

Toponyms in Taiwan

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In the early seventeenth century the Dutch East India Company was keen to establish a trading post in China. Together with the English ...
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