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Small Sea Travel Diaries: Yu Yonghe's Records of Taiwan is a direct translation of the diaries and essays composed by Chinese litterateur Yu Yonghe during his travels through Taiwan in the late seventeenth century. When the imperial gunpowder stores exploded in 1696, officials searched frantically for a means to replenish the lost supply. Having heard that the newly acquired territory of Taiwan was rich in sulfur, they dispatched Yu to search, mine and transport theessential mineral. Throughout his journey across the perilous Taiwan Strait and up the miasmal eastern Taiwan coast, Yu kept a diary of all he saw and experienced. Upon his return to China he published this diary along with several essays on history and culture, as the slim but opulent Pihai Jiyou, or Small Sea Travel Diaries.....