Taiwan's Imagined Geography : Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 / Emma Jinhua Teng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teng, Emma, author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 230.

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 230

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, Chinese--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, Chinese.

Taiwan--Description and travel.

Taiwan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2004.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

the author contributes to our understanding of current political events in the region.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

An Island Beyond the Seas Enters the Map

Taiwan as a Living Museum Savagery and Tropes of Anachronism

A Hidden jade in a Ball of Mud Landscape and Colonial Rhetoric

Debating Difference Racial and Ethnical Discourses

The Raw and the Cooked

Picturing Savagery Visual Representations of Racial Difference

An Island of Women The Discourse of Gender

Fashioning Chinese Origins Nineteenth-Century Ethnohistoriography

'Opening the Mountains and Pacifying the Savages'

Taiwan as a Lost Part of 'My China'

On the Impossibility of a Postcolonial Theory of Taiwan

Excerpts from Yu Yonghe's Small Sea Travelogue

Excerpts from Ding Shaoyi's Brief Record of the Eastern Ocean

Notes

Works Cited

Character List

Index

Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

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

ISBN:

9781684173938

9780674021198

OCLC:

607897952

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684173938 DOI

Access Restriction:

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