"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 lamente...

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1. Verfasser:	Teng, Emma (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Asia Center 2004
Schriftenreihe:	Harvard East Asian monographs 230
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1683-1895 Afbeeldingen (algemeen) Reisbeschrijvingen Écrits de voyageurs chinois - Histoire et critique Travelers' writings, Chinese / History and criticism Chinesen Reisebericht Taiwan - Descriptions et voyages Taiwan / Description and travel Taiwan
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Zusammenfassung:	"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index 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 and natives -- 6. Picturing savagery : visual representations of racial difference -- 7. An island of women : the discourse of gender -- 8. Fashioning Chinese origins : nineteenth-century ethnohistoriography -- 9. "Opening the mountains and pacifying the savages" -- Conclusion : Taiwan as a lost part of "my China" -- Epilogue : on the impossibility of a postcolonial theory of Taiwan -- App. A. Excerpts from Yu Yonghe's Small sea travelogue -- App. B. Excerpts from Ding Shaoyi's Brief record of the eastern ocean
Beschreibung:	xvi, 370 p. , [16] p. of plates ill. (chiefly col.) 24 cm