Fu'ermosha zhi wang : guo xing ye yu Helan dong Yindu gong si de Tai jiang zheng ba / Bei Qiaosi zhu ; Zhang Kunjie yi ; Weng Jiayin shen ding = Lord of Formosa / by Joyce Bergvelt.
福爾摩沙之王 : 國姓爺與荷蘭東印度公司的臺江爭霸 貝喬思著 ; 張焜傑譯 ; 翁佳音審定 = Lord of Formosa / by Joyce Bergvelt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergvelt, Joyce, author.

Contributor:

Zhang, Kunjie, translator.

Weng, Jiayin, editor.

張焜傑, translator.

翁佳音, editor.

Standardized Title:

Lord of Formosa. Chinese

Language:

Chinese

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Zheng, Chenggong, 1624-1662--Fiction.

Zheng, Chenggong.

China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--Fiction.

China.

Taiwan--History--Dutch rule, 1624-1661--Fiction.

Taiwan.

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie--History--17th century--Fiction.

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.

Asia--History--Fiction.

Asia.

Genre:

Chinese language edition (Traditional) -- Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

558 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Chu ban.

初版.

Other Title:

Fuermosha zhi wang

Lord of Formosa

Place of Publication:

Taibei Shi : Qian wei chu ban she, 2023.

臺北市 : 前衛出版社, 2023.

Language Note:

Text in Traditional Chinese, translated from the English.

Summary:

The year is 1624. In southwestern Taiwan the Dutch establish a trading settlement; in Nagasaki a boy is born who will become immortalized as Ming dynasty loyalist Koxinga. Lord of Formosa tells the intertwined stories of Koxinga and the Dutch colony from their beginnings to their fateful climax in 1662. The year before, as Ming China collapsed in the face of the Manchu conquest, Koxinga retreated across the Taiwan Strait intent on expelling the Dutch. Thus began a nine-month battle for Fort Zeelandia, the single most compelling episode in the history of Taiwan. The first major military clash between China and Europe, it is a tale of determination, courage, and betrayal - a battle of wills between the stubborn Governor Coyett and the brilliant but volatile Koxinga. Although the story has been told in non-fiction works, these have suffered from a lack of sources on Koxinga as the little we know of him comes chiefly from his enemies. While adhering to the historical facts, author Joyce Bergvelt sympathetically and intelligently fleshes out Koxinga. From his loving relationship with his Japanese mother, estrangement from his father (a Chinese merchant pirate), to his struggle with madness, we have the first rounded, intimate portrait of the man.

Notes:

Translation of: Lord of Formosa.

ISBN:

9786267076897

626707689X

OCLC:

1397030725