Yu Yonghe – Small Sea Travel Diary

This week’s podcast is on one of the earliest documents we have in Taiwanese history, a 1697 journey by Yu Yonghe into the wilds of Taiwan’s north, where he mined sulfur amongst the barbarians. Yu gets off on traveling, and this journey is deep into the heart of Taiwan. In this podcast, I discuss the history of Taiwan along with questions of race and racism in Chinese thought.

Links:

China History Podcast – Episode One of the 15-Part Series on Taiwan’s history.

Chinese Literature Podcast – Qiu Fengjia Episode

Chinese Literature Podcast – One of the Episodes on the Book of Poems

Macabe Keliher’s Translation of Yu Yonghe’s Small Sea Travel Diaries

The Original 1603 Article by Chen Di – Record of the Eastern Barbarians – First Chinese Language Article on Taiwan (in Chinese)