This attractively bound (but super-expensive!) book made its way to me from Lahore, and unwrapping it from its tight multilayered plastic covering reminded me of when Kasper Gutman was tearing the layers of newspaper off the Maltese Falcon.
Fortunately, I can confidently declare that it's not a fake, and I'm looking forward to reading it. The Dutch encounter with Taiwan is particularly interesting to me for its rhetorical dimensions, and Joby's book appears to address at least one side of it by discussing what rhetorical techniques Dutch and Spanish missionaries used to persuade (or coerce?) the Indigenous Austronesians in seventeenth-century Taiwan to adopt (or was it adapt?) Christianity.
But first I need to get back to work...
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