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9780814331989

The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar's Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814331989

  • ISBN10:

    081433198X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-03-01
  • Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
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Author Biography

Michael Keevak is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations x
Introduction: Psalmanazar and the Great Wall of Europe 1(16)
Chapter 1 The True and the False Formosa 17(18)
Chapter 2 "White Formosan Work" 35(26)
Chapter 3 Psalmanazar's Language 61(38)
Chapter 4 The Jew Psalmanazar 99(20)
Afterword: Anima Fuerte 119(6)
Notes 125(36)
Works Cited 161(14)
Index 175

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