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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
230. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- An island beyond the seas enters the map
- Taiwan as a living museum: savagery and tropes of anachronism
- A hidden jade in a ball of mud: landscape and colonial rhetoric
- Debating difference: racial and ethnical discourses
- The raw and the cooked: classifying Taiwan's land and natives
- Picturing savagery: visual representations of racial difference
- An island of women: the discourse of gender
- Fashioning Chinese origins: nineteenth-century ethnohistoriography
- "Opening the mountains and pacifying the savages."