Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895
by Teng, Emma Jinhua
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Dust Jacket Included
- ISBN 10
- 0674014510
- ISBN 13
- 9780674014510
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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 played a vital role in expressing and producing Chinese ideologies of imperial expansion and race. At the same time, travel writing and images of the frontiers transformed the imagined geography of the Chinese empire itself, as the Qing doubled the empire's territory. By representing distant lands and frontier peoples to audiences in China proper, these works converted places once considered non-Chinese into familiar parts or the empire. They dramatically changed the idea of the geographic and ethnic boundaries of "China" - creating the imagined geography behind PRC conceptions of China's "sovereign territory" and its claims to places like Taiwan and Tibet. This book challenges prevailing preconceptions of the "colonizer" and "colonized" by examining a non-Western imperial power and its representations of colonial "others" and suggests the possibility of meeting points between Western and Chinese colonial discourses. This work further debunks the notion that Taiwan has been a part of China since antiquity by showing how the Taiwan-China relation emerged from the history of Qing colonialism..
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- Bookseller
- Jorge Welsh Books (PT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 750B
- Title
- Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895
- Author
- Teng, Emma Jinhua
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0674014510
- ISBN 13
- 9780674014510
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- taiwan,china,travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian history;
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