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Taiwan's Imagined Geography Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Hardcover - 2004
by Emma Jinhua Teng
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- Title Taiwan's Imagined Geography Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
- Author Emma Jinhua Teng
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge
- Date June 30, 2004
- ISBN 9780674014510
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Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. Hardcover. ex library-very good/Very good. Harvard East Asian Monographs 230. xvi, [6], 370, [11] p. 24 cm. Grey cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Ex library with labels on lower spine and endpapers, ink stamps on text block edges and first pages. Jacket taped to book.
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Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London, 2004 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16 x 23.5 cm; 0.7 kg; 370 pages with a few illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Harvard East Asian Monographs 230.; 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. The author argues that colonial travel writing, ethnographic illustrations, and maps were central to this transformation and that traveler's representations of Taiwan…
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