Scenes from Dutch Formosa

Staging Taiwan's Colonial Past

Edited by Llyn Scott

2014, 346 pages • illustrated

ISBN 978-1-937385-28-6 Paper $35.00
ISBN 978-1-937385-29-3 Cloth $75.00

With an international cast of contributors, and beautifully illustrated, Scenes from Dutch Formosa brings together a variety of genres and historical essays to contextualize the Dutch Formosan colonial era between 1625 and 1663 for an audience of postcolonial studies, culture studies, and performance studies readers. The collection examines diverse Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Taiwanese dramatic-dialogic interpretations of the Dutch East India Company's (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie) presence in Taiwan. Introductory and concluding essays set the global stage with a scholarly sweep on the role of Dutch Formosa in an ongoing international drama of diplomacy.

Llyn Scott is Associate Professor, Department of English, Aletheia University, Taiwan, where she teaches speech, Western drama, and performing arts and directs English-language theater productions. Currently, she is researching popular performance works based on early Taiwanese history and culture.