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 […]
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American Susan Blumberg-Kason is the author of Good Chinese Wife, which recounts her years in a Chinese family as a wife, daughter-in-law, and mother. Susan also contributed the excellent introduction to the Camphor Press edition of Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls. She blogs at susanbkason.com. In the mid-1960s, my mom spent a year in […]