Comments on: The First Formosan in Europe http://savageminds.org/2006/04/12/the-first-formosan-in-europe/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:28:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://savageminds.org/2006/04/12/the-first-formosan-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-5066 Ryan Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:15:39 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=450#comment-5066 Hello, I came across this interesting story via Michael Turton's site and was really intrigued. I run a bilingual magazine on the East Coast of Taiwan called highway 11. It's small, and it doesn't make any money, but we continue to grow. Our focus has been on all things East Coast. Restaurants, sites, music and culture. The peice above really interests me and I wonder whether you would allow me to translate and publish it in an upcoming issue. I understand if you don't but I thought it was worth the try. You or I would have to shorten it somewhat since the entirety of the article is a bit too long for the magazine, but it's just too interesting to pass up. Let me know, Ryan Hello,

I came across this interesting story via Michael Turton’s site and was really intrigued.

I run a bilingual magazine on the East Coast of Taiwan called highway 11. It’s small, and it doesn’t make any money, but we continue to grow.

Our focus has been on all things East Coast. Restaurants, sites, music and culture. The peice above really interests me and I wonder whether you would allow me to translate and publish it in an upcoming issue. I understand if you don’t but I thought it was worth the try.

You or I would have to shorten it somewhat since the entirety of the article is a bit too long for the magazine, but it’s just too interesting to pass up.

Let me know,

Ryan

]]> By: Michael Turton http://savageminds.org/2006/04/12/the-first-formosan-in-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-5064 Michael Turton Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:10:59 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=450#comment-5064 One important hoax-as-orientalizing, in fact a pile of such hoaxes, is the career of con artist and forger Edmund Backhouse, who nearly got himself a position at Oxford with the forged Chinshan Diary of the Boxer Rebellion. One thinks also of the way Mormon claims about archaeology and history, including the "reformed Egyptian" that Joseph Smith was supposed to have tranlated, are also an Orientalist project... Great post, as always. Michael One important hoax-as-orientalizing, in fact a pile of such hoaxes, is the career of con artist and forger Edmund Backhouse, who nearly got himself a position at Oxford with the forged Chinshan Diary of the Boxer Rebellion.

One thinks also of the way Mormon claims about archaeology and history, including the “reformed Egyptian” that Joseph Smith was supposed to have tranlated, are also an Orientalist project…

Great post, as always.

Michael

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