The Great Formosan Impostor
Author | : Frederic J. Foley |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Impostors and imposture |
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Author | : Frederic J. Foley |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Impostors and imposture |
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Author | : Frederic J. Foley (s.j.) |
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Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Michael Keevak |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780814331989 |
The Pretended Asian also traces Psalmanazar's later career as a Grub Street hack writer and how his lifelong refusal to reveal his real identity - even after Europeans stopped believing he was a native of Formosa - may have rendered Psalmanazar a permanent outsider."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Graham Earnshaw |
Publisher | : Earnshaw Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789888422128 |
More than 300 years ago, the island of Taiwan was a topic of hot controversy in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born on the island. He made highly controversial claims about the life and the history of Taiwan, then called Formosa, and his book on the subject was a publishing sensation in London in 1704. His name, George Psalmanazar, was fake, and he never told anyone what his real name was or where he came from. But his Formosan stories of mass killings of young boys, of people living underground, of elephants and camels and gold mines was for a time widely accepted, including even by the Bishop of London who invited Psalmanazar to teach his (fake) Formosan language at Oxford University. This is the story of one of the great frauds in literary history.
Author | : George Psalmanazar |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789888422289 |
"The Formosa Fraud," known for most his life as George Psalmanazar, prepared his memoirs for publication after his death in 1764, but even then he did not directly admit the fraud, and never revealed what his real name was. The Memoirs of "* * * *"--that is, the memoirs of George Psalmanzar--are a crucial part of the story of the deception, and provide a highly entertaining account of his youth in France. His pretense of being a Formosan allowed him to escape rural poverty and live most of his life in the world's great city of the time--London. This book is a companion to The Formosa Fraud, by Graham Earnshaw, which details the stupendous fraud perpetrated by Psalmanazar. He claimed he was born on the island of Formosa (Taiwan) and made up an entire fantasy for the island with a fake history, a fake language and long list of outrageous claims that became the book, A Description of Formosa, which was a publishing sensation in London in 1704. Even the Bishop of London swallowed Psalmanazar's story and invited him to teach his (fake) Formosan language at Oxford University. The Memoirs of "* * * *" provides the background to the story of one of the great frauds in literary history.
Author | : 奇邁可 |
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Release | : 2002 |
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Author | : Kevin Young |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1555979823 |
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon James Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers—from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington, and What Is It?, an African American man Barnum professed was a newly discovered missing link in evolution. Bunk then turns to the hoaxing of history and the ways that forgers, plagiarists, and journalistic fakers invent backstories and falsehoods to sell us lies about themselves and about the world in our own time, from pretend Native Americans Grey Owl and Nasdijj to the deadly imposture of Clark Rockefeller, from the made-up memoirs of James Frey to the identity theft of Rachel Dolezal. In this brilliant and timely work, Young asks what it means to live in a post-factual world of “truthiness” where everything is up for interpretation and everyone is subject to a pervasive cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art.
Author | : George Psalmanazar |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics Trade Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2018-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780353311480 |
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Author | : Peter Mason |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781861891143 |
Examines the history of European representations of non-European peoples.