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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2012
      November 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139097000
      9781108037723
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139097000
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 392 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, East Asian History, Area Studies, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, East Asian History, Area Studies, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    First published in 1896 and based on extracts from diaries, notes and reports, this work, edited by J. A. Macdonald, tells of the nearly three decades that George Mackay (1844–1901) spent on the island of Formosa (now Taiwan). In 1872 the Canadian Presbyterian priest arrived in northern Taiwan and set up a new missionary station. Within a month of his arrival he had made his first convert, a Chinese named Giam Chheng Hoa. Mackay married a local woman, with whom he had three children, and made numerous trips around the island, founded a hospital and established a college. He also gathered specimens of local fauna and flora that formed the cornerstone of a museum. Mackay offers vivid descriptions of Formosan geography, culture and animal life; his interpretation of the syncretic 'heathenism' of Formosa as a 'dark damning nightmare' is characteristic of the Western viewpoint of his time.

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