Yu Yonghe

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Yu Yonghe (

Biography

Yu Yonghe was born before 1650 in the city of Renhe,

Eventually Yu returned to Fuzhou with a memoir of his ten-months journey aboard. The memoir chronicles Yu's life in Taiwan under Qing rule when he was introduced to the unique culture of the island. It subsequently became Small Sea Travel Diaries (title sometimes translated The Small Sea Travel Records or Small Sea Travelogue). As Yu was on a mission of collecting sulfur, his book is also referred to as the Sulfur Extraction Diaries (採硫日記). The book provides first hand account of the most vivid historical records of the period.

When Yu arrived in Taiwan, the island had been under the administration of the Qing dynasty for 13 years. Not only had Yu recorded the developments of the era, he had also taken into account of the administrative structures passed down by the Dutch and Zheng dynasty.

Unlike other primary records left by conquerors and administrators in the seventeenth century, Yu's book reflects the multicultural characteristics of early Taiwan through the eyes of an adventurous and passionate literati.

See also

• History of Taiwan
• Mining in Taiwan

References

• Keliher, Macabe (2003). Out of China : or Yu Yonghe's tale of Formosa : a history of seventeenth century Taiwan. Taipei: SMC Publishing.
  ISBN 9789576386091
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• Keliher, Macabe (2004). Small Sea Travel Diaries: Yu Yonghe's Records of Taiwan. Taipei: SMC Publishing.
  ISBN 9789576386299
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• Mair, Victor H.; Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman; Goldin, Paul R. (2005). "Yu Yonghe, Small Sea Travelogue (Excerpts)". Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 548–561.
  ISBN 9780824827854
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• Teng, Emma Jinhua (2006). Taiwan's Imagined Geography : Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  ISBN 9780674021198
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郁永河

• Yu Yonghe - Oxford Reference
• Tu, Cheng-sheng (2003-03-16). "Ancient diary brings a personal touch to early Ching Formosa". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2014-05-15.