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

by Emma Jinhua Teng

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674014510
• ISBN13: 9780674014510
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"