W G Goddard
Biographic Data
| ID | 560317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W G Goddard |
| GIVEN NAMES | W G |
| FAMILY NAME | Goddard |
| SIGNATURE | GODDARD W G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaii System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Formosa: A Study in Chinese History
Formosa
Captain China and his Corsairs
Wan San-ho, better known as Admiral Cheng Ho, an honorific borrowed from the days of Chou, was the most travelled of the seafaring Chinese of the time. He had led no less than seven expeditions to the South Seas, and had voyaged as far as the Somali coast of East Africa and Ormuz on the Persian Gulf. Returning from an official visit to Siam, a typhoon had driven his junks out of their course as far east as south Formosa. There he was taken ill an…
Postscript
Such has been the transformation of Formosa. A former Japanese slave colony has in the space of a few years become a prosperous island, its people enjoying personal, political, and economic freedom, without parallel elsewhere among the Chinese people, with a standard of living higher than ever previously known in Chinese history, and, as regards land ownership, a condition unequalled in any other part of the world, in East or West. A Chinese prov…
The Japanese Occupation
Formosa was now a Japanese colony, after 212 years as part of the Chinese Empire. After the first ten years of Japanese occupation, the Japanese historian, Yosaburo Takekoshi, published his account of the position in Formosa: When Formosa first came into our possession, and we, Japanese, commenced to colonize it, we were ourselves anxious as to what the result would be. As it was our first attempt, we naturally made some mistakes; but, notwithsta…
Formosa: A Study in Chinese History
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Formosa
Captain China and his Corsairs
Wan San-ho, better known as Admiral Cheng Ho, an honorific borrowed from the days of Chou, was the most travelled of the seafaring Chinese of the time. He had led no less than seven expeditions to the South Seas, and had voyaged as far as the Somali coast of East Africa and Ormuz on the Persian Gulf. Returning from an official visit to Siam, a typhoon had driven his junks out of their course as far east as south Formosa. There he was taken ill an…
Postscript
Such has been the transformation of Formosa. A former Japanese slave colony has in the space of a few years become a prosperous island, its people enjoying personal, political, and economic freedom, without parallel elsewhere among the Chinese people, with a standard of living higher than ever previously known in Chinese history, and, as regards land ownership, a condition unequalled in any other part of the world, in East or West. A Chinese prov…
The Japanese Occupation
Formosa was now a Japanese colony, after 212 years as part of the Chinese Empire. After the first ten years of Japanese occupation, the Japanese historian, Yosaburo Takekoshi, published his account of the position in Formosa: When Formosa first came into our possession, and we, Japanese, commenced to colonize it, we were ourselves anxious as to what the result would be. As it was our first attempt, we naturally made some mistakes; but, notwithsta…
Formosa: A Study in Chinese History
Formosa: A Study in Chinese History
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