Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 by Emma Jinhua Teng

Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Emma Jinhua Teng

400 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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 provi...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...