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Taiwan's imagined geography : Chinese colonial travel writing and pictures, 1683-1895 /

"Until 350 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "savage island" beyond the pale of Chinese civilization. When the Qing conquered the island in 1683, the court debated the value of colonizing this "ball of mud." Yet, two centuries later, in 1895, Chinese writers lamente...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Teng, Emma (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004.
Colección:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 230.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Until 350 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "savage island" beyond the pale of Chinese civilization. When the Qing conquered the island in 1683, the court debated the value of colonizing this "ball of mud." Yet, two centuries later, in 1895, Chinese writers lamented the island's cession to Japan as a loss of sacred national territory. Taiwan's trajectory from "savage island" to China's "sovereign territory" is the subject of this book."--Jacket.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-340) and index.
ISBN:9781684173938
1684173930