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China s Island Frontier
Author | : Ronald G. Knapp |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2019-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824880040 |
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Until the seventeenth century, Professor Knapp reminds us, Taiwan lay obscure off the southeast coast of China-an island cloaked in anonymity and inhabited principally by aborigines. Then, rather abruptly, the island was thrust into the maelstrom of European commercial expansion in East Asia, which in its wake drew Chinese peasant pioneers across the straits to Taiwan. This is the story, told from many viewpoints, of how Taiwan was transformed over a period of three centuries from a raw frontier to a stable entity with social and economic patterns similar to those found along the coastal mainland of southeastern China.
Taiwan China s Last Frontier
Author | : S. Long |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1991-01-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230377394 |
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Taiwan has been described as a ticking time bomb. For all the fratricidal strife that has scarred Chinese politics since 1949, Peking's leaders have never wavered from their commitment to reunification with Taiwan. There, 20 million people have witnessed one of the great economic miracles of the post-war era. But their government is founded on a constitution that claims legitimacy over all of China. In this provocative study, Simon Long looks at the historical background to China's claim to sovereignty, and at the roots of Taiwan's economic triumphs.
Water Frontier
Author | : Nola Cooke,Tana Li |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0742530833 |
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This innovative book rethinks the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century history of coastal and riverine southwest Indochina, the 'water frontier' of the title. It repositions old state-centered histories to reveal the region as a single, multiethnic economic zone knit together by the itineraries of junk traders and by the activities of many southern Chinese, settlers, sojourners, and merchants, whose local significance it explores. In so doing, it pioneers a new, nationally-neutral way of perceiving this dynamic region.
Asian Borderlands
Author | : Charles Patterson Giersch |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674021711 |
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With comparative frontier history and pioneering use of indigenous sources, Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest. He focuses on the Tai domains of the Yunnan frontier on the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.
Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier 1600 1800
Author | : John Robert Shepherd |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804720665 |
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Taiwan s Imagined Geography
Author | : Emma Jinhua Teng |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781684173938 |
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"Until 300 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a “land beyond the seas,” a “ball of mud” inhabited by “naked and tattooed savages.” The incorporation of this island into the Qing empire in the seventeenth century and its evolution into a province by the late nineteenth century involved not only a reconsideration of imperial geography but also a reconceptualization of the Chinese domain. The annexation of Taiwan was only one incident in the much larger phenomenon of Qing expansionism into frontier areas that resulted in a doubling of the area controlled from Beijing and the creation of a multi-ethnic polity. The author argues that travelers’ accounts and pictures of frontiers such as Taiwan led to a change in the imagined geography of the empire. In representing distant lands and ethnically diverse peoples of the frontiers to audiences in China proper, these works transformed places once considered non-Chinese into familiar parts of the empire and thereby helped to naturalize Qing expansionism. By viewing Taiwan–China relations as a product of the history of Qing expansionism, the author contributes to our understanding of current political events in the region."
The Consolidation of the South China Frontier
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Author | : George V. H. Moseley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0608158453 |
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