S2-E34 - "Galloping Oxen" - Emperor Kangxi’s Jesuit Mapmakers in Taiwan

Between the late 1600s and mid-1800s, there was no Western
presence on Taiwan. There were, however, a couple of special
Western visitors of whom the wonderfully-named Joseph-Anne-Marie
de Moyriac de Mailla was the most notable. This Jesuit priest was
a hardcore scholar who spent 45 years in China. Emperor Kangxi
gave de Mailla and fellow Jesuits a mission: "Go map my empire...
including Taiwan!" This is the story of what the esteemed Jesuit
priest saw when he visited Formosa in 1714.