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Writing Taiwan’s History in Dutch Literature

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It’s been exactly 400 years since 1624, when the Dutch East India Company landed in Taiwan. People call it the first time Taiwan truly came into contact with the Western world, but most people in the Netherlands today barely know about this history. On this episode of Zoom In Zoom Out, TaiwanPlus reporter Reece Ayers sits down with Dutch author Joyce Bergvelt. They first zoom in on her book “Lord of Formosa,” which dramatizes the Dutch colonists’ expulsion from Taiwan, then zoom out to look at the publishing world’s interest in Taiwan globally.