One of the most intriguing world figures of the seventeenth century, the warlord and Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong (commonly known as Koxinga) changed the course of East Asian history; without him, Taiwan might well have remained a Dutch colony into the 1940s. Koxinga statue in the Koxinga Shrine, Tainan (photo courtesy of Bernard Gagnon) The […]
Author Archives: John Grant Ross
I feel forced to put out the print version of You Don’t Know China under the name of “John Grant Ross” rather than the simpler “John Ross” I used for the e-book edition. Here’s why. It was bad enough when I saw the Goodreads’ biography entry for Formosan Odyssey asserting that I was a dead, […]