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

Emma Jinhua Teng

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

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Emma Jinhua Teng

400 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history literary travel

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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...

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