History buffs take note. This was published today.
“The Life of Dr. James L. Maxwell” by Rev. Joshua Pan. Not sure of the publisher.
400 pages with 400 photos and illustrations, many of them previously unpublished.
Maxwell, who Pan credits with bringing Western medicine to southern Taiwan and with introducing modern print technology to Taiwan by imprting a printing press from Edinburgh, practiced, taught and preached all over the south and is described as being to southern Taiwan what MacKay was to northern Taiwan. However, there has been relatively little published about him. The book is in Chinese.
Thanks Sandman,
This buff history lover will be heading down to the bookstore for a copy.
I can’t read all those strange native scriblings but I can enjoy the pictures. And I’ll get one of servant girls to translate parts of it.
Maxwell was also a friend of WA Pickering and accompanied him into the mountains to meet the Tsou People. Maxwell died in a shipwreck.
Doesn’t this perpetuatethe myth that Taiwan is somehow part of China?
Wouldn’t it be better if the book were written in Taiwanese?
P.S. Of course, I am no language expert myself, but . . . . . . . .
The language of the colonizer… I guess you’d have to develop the best form of Taiwanese writing first. Big debate on that. Oh well, Josh Pan is a pretty cool guy, a bit too energetic, but I’m sure he has woven a good tale. J. Pan is heavily involved in the re-emergence of the ping pu identity .