#261 - Qing 6: Taiwan Incognita, Pt. 2

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

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Events on the high seas and islands alike reach a fevered pitch as the Dutch, Japan, China, and Portugal all vie for profit and supremacy over Taiwan and its lucrative trade. Meanwhile - call them what you will (because it's hard to keep track - but the "independent merchants" or "pirate lords" ... sometimes even turned government agents keep looking to exploit every opportunity to enrich themselves while avoiding the noose. Take what you can, give nothin' back! Timeframe Covered: ca. 1600-1639 Major Historical Figures: Dutch East India Company/Batavia/Ft. Zeelandia: Capt. Elie Ripon Pieter Nuyts, Governor of Formosa [1598-1655] Catholic Church: Georgius Candidus [1597-1647] Independent Traders/Pirates of Taiwan: Salvador Diaz of Macau Yan Siqi [d. ~1625] Li Dan "Captain China" [d. ~1625] Li Kuiqi ("Quitsicq") Zhong Bin Liu Xiang Ming China: Chen Di, Ming imperial official [1541-1617] Xu Xinsu ("Simpsou"), merchant-contact "Patrolling Admiral" Zheng Zhilong [1604-1661] Shogunate Japan: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, "The Great Unifier" [1537-1598] Suetsugu Heizo Masanao, merchant-lord [1546-1630] Suetsugu Heizo Masafusa, the scion Taiwan Aboriginal Groups: the Sinkan the Mattau Major Sources Cited: Andrade, Tonio (2005). How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Sevententh Century. Andrade, Tonio (2004). "The Company's Chinese Pirates: How the Dutch East India Company Tried to Lead a Coalition of Pirates to War against China, 1621-1662" in Journal of World History, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Dec., 2004). Clements, Jonathan (2004). Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty. Ripon, Elie [Leonard Blussé & Jaap de Moor, trans.] (2016). Captain Ripon’s Maritime Adventures in the East Indies: The Diary of a Mercenary Soldier, 1617-1627. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:44.0	Episode 261, Taiwan Incognita, part 2.
0:52.0	In his report to the Portia Incognita, Art 2.
0:54.0	In his report to the Portuguese, Salvador Diaz said that there were two Chinese settlements
0:58.6	on Taiwan, each of which was filled with pirates.
1:02.2	He did not go into further detail but he could have because he was in
1:07.0	cahoots with him. Shortly after his escape, the Dutch discovered that Diaz had been the
1:12.1	pirates informant giving them inside
1:15.0	information such as where junks leaving Dayuan might best be captured.
1:19.0	He also collected protection money.
1:22.0	A Chinese merchant named Shushin He also collected protection money.
1:27.7	A Chinese merchant named Shushinsu, who was the company's most important link to the silk markets of southern China, complained to Dutch officials that he'd paid 2,000 tales to Diaz to quote unquote protect his
1:36.3	junks against attack.
1:38.9	Such protection money known as water taxes had deep roots in the Taiwan straits.
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