Author Archives: John Ross

About John Ross

John Ross is the author of Formosan Odyssey, an exploration of Taiwan's people and history, and You Don’t Know China, a book that dismantles twenty-two common myths about China.

Taiwan Since 2002: A Difficult Dozen Years

John Ross is the author of Formosan Odyssey, a classic of Taiwan travel and history writing, first published in 2002. In this afterword written for the 2014 second edition, he looks at how Taiwan has…