William George Goddard (1887–1986) was an Australian intellectual, broadcaster, and writer who "spent much of the 1950s and 1960s serving the Nationalist Chinese regime on Taiwan" and wrote books in support of the Chiang Kai-shek regime there.[1] He had "a considerable influence on the ways in which Taiwan was thought about in many parts of the world" through his books, such as Formosa: A Study in Chinese History (1966) some of which were translated into Chinese and Spanish.[1]
Career
editBorn in Newcastle, NSW he worked in China before returning to Australia, becoming a "prominent international affairs commentator in the 1930s" at the Brisbane-area 4BC station,[2] writing The New Order in Asia : An Essay on the Future of Civilisation (1940)[3] and in 1941 giving the Morrison Lecture with the title "The Min Shen. A Study in Chinese Democracy".[4] After the Nationalist retreat to Taiwan, Goddard visited Taipei in 1954, renewing his links with the Kuomintang government. He retired to the United Kingdom in the 1970s, where he died in 1986.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Taylor, Jeremy E. (December 2007). "Taipei's 'Britisher': W.G. Goddard and the promotion of. Nationalist China in the Cold-War Commonwealth" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. 9 (2): 126–46 – via New Zealand Asian Studies Society.
- ^ Bridget Griffen-Foley (225). "Before the parrot: the 'news commentator' on Australian commercial radio". Macquarie University.
- ^ Goddard, W. G (29 August 1940). The new order in Asia; an essay on the future of civilisation. Epworth Press. OCLC 27046411 – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ "The George E. Morrison Lectures in Ethnology - Australian Centre on China in the World - ANU". ciw.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ Taylor, Jeremy E. (19 July 2013). "Being a "Friend of Free China": W. G. Goddard in Nationalist Taiwan". The Chinese Historical Review. 16 (2): 208–227. doi:10.1179/tcr.2009.16.2.208. S2CID 144828502.