Isle of Time
Dutch and Spanish Colonial Taiwan: Maritime Trade, Missionaries, and Indigenous Encounters (1624–1662)

Sea and Fortress

11 Volumes

Vol. 1

The Dutch Arrival

In the late summer of 1624, several colossal armed merchantmen flying the red, white, and blue trico...

Vol. 2

Fort Zeelandia

Following the landing of the Dutch on the Tayouan sandbar in the late summer of 1624, they were conf...

Vol. 3

Spanish Northern Taiwan

In the pale dawn of 1626, as the Pacific monsoons swept across the northeastern cape of Formosa, sev...

Vol. 4

The Hamada Yahee Incident

In the early seventeenth century, Taiwan was not yet the Chinese island that would later be ruled by...

Vol. 5

Indigenous Encounters

Before the colossus of the Age of Sail crashed through Formosa's pristine coastlines, this emerald i...

Vol. 6

The Madou She War

In the early seventeenth century, the southwestern plains of Taiwan were not a unified land ruled by...

Vol. 7

The Sinckan Script

In the early seventeenth century, the plains of Taiwan had no written language....

Vol. 8

The Deer That Built an Empire

If a modern person could travel back to seventeenth-century Taiwan, the most astonishing sight would...

Vol. 9

The Guo Huaiyi Rebellion

In the 1650s, Taiwan entered a period of unprecedented population growth....

Vol. 10

A Map That Changed a Dynasty

In history, some people build dynasties with their own hands....

Vol. 11

The Siege of Fort Zeelandia

On the pale morning of April 30, 1661, as the heavy mists over the Tayouan sea slowly dissolved in t...