Leonard Blusse and Natalie Everts, eds. The Formosan Encounter: Notes on Formosa’s Aboriginal Society, A Selection of Documents from Dutch Archival Sources, vols. 1-4, Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, 1999-2000.
The link above is to volume 1. After getting my copy of Christopher Joby's Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan, I decided the next step would be to get this collection. It has the documents in Dutch and English and runs from 1623 to 1668, which is basically the entire period the Dutch governed Taiwan. It has some nice illustrations and maps, too.
I ordered the books from the Southern Materials bookstore in Taiwan; they got the books to the US fairly quickly, but then they languished in customs for about a week before they made their leisurely way to Massachusetts. The great efficiency of the U.S. government and postal system...
Anyway, I'll have to find some time to dip into these after I get all of my other things done. By then, I should be old and grey. (Wait a minute, I'm already old and grey!)
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