Tonio Andrade’s THE LOST COLONY to Princeton University Press

China historian Tonio Andrade’s account of the little known story of the Chinese pirate Zheng Chenggong who led a fleet of ships against the Dutch East India Company’s trading colony on the island of Taiwan. In The Lost Colony: How a Chinese Pirate Defeated Europe’s Greatest Colonial Empire, Andrade reveals a China far different than the inward-looking, xenophobic creation of the Western imagination. The true China, embodies great curiosity, exploration and an appetite for international trade. To Clara Platter at Princeton University Press by Dan O'Connell.