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The Dutch put up a good fight... but a traitor seals their fate. Here's the end of the story of how the Dutch lost Taiwan.
Cover image: Painting of Fort Zeelandia in 1635, from The National Archives, The Hague, Netherlands - Wikimedia Commons
Below: A map showing the areas of China and Taiwan controlled by Koxinga and his son at different times during their Ming Dynasty holdout kingdom (Pic source unknown)
Below: A drawing of a Ming-era junk. These were the type of ships Koxinga invaded Formosa with. (Image via: Peter Mundy - The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia 1608-1667)
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Check our very first episode, the story of a very white man who showed up in London in 1703... and claimed to be from Formosa. Or try a foodie episode from Season 3. Or, for those who want some harder-core history, hear the tale of the Lockheed U-2 pilot Wang Hsi-chueh 王錫爵, who became famous for defecting to the PRC by hijacking China Airlines Flight 334 on May 3, 1986.
