Taiwan's imagined geography : Chinese colonial travel writing and pictures, 1683-1895 / Emma Jinhua...
Taiwan's imagined geography : Chinese colonial travel writing and pictures, 1683-1895 / Emma Jinhua...
Taiwan's imagined geography : Chinese colonial travel writing and pictures, 1683-1895 / Emma Jinhua Teng.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N915.124/1
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 370 p. , [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. An island beyond the seas enters the map -- 2. Taiwan as a living museum : savagery and tropes of anachronism -- 3. A hidden jade in a ball of mud : landscape and colonial rhetoric -- 4. Debating difference : racial and ethnical discourses -- 5. The raw and the cooked : classifying Taiwan's land...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2004.
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"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. Tai...
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Taiwan's imagined geography : Chinese colonial travel writing and pictures, 1683-1895 / Emma Jinhua Teng.
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Chinese colonial travel writing and pictures, 1683-1895.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 230.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N915.124/1
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74VK2l4P3JDO
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ISBN
0674014510 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780674014510 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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915.1249043
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991018198139702626
