China's Island Frontier
Until the seventeenth century, Professor Knapp reminds us, Taiwan lay obscure off the southeast coast of China-an island cloaked in anonymity and inhabited principally by aborigines. Then, rather abruptly, the island was thrust into the maelstrom of European commercial expansion in East Asia, which...
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| description | Until the seventeenth century, Professor Knapp reminds us, Taiwan lay obscure off the southeast coast of China-an island cloaked in anonymity and inhabited principally by aborigines. Then, rather abruptly, the island was thrust into the maelstrom of European commercial expansion in East Asia, which in its wake drew Chinese peasant pioneers across the straits to Taiwan. This is the story, told from many viewpoints, of how Taiwan was transformed over a period of three centuries from a raw frontier to a stable entity with social and economic patterns similar to those found along the coastal mainland of southeastern China. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1144292024-04-02T22:13:13Z China's Island Frontier Knapp, Ronald G. History Political Science thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTM Maritime history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism Until the seventeenth century, Professor Knapp reminds us, Taiwan lay obscure off the southeast coast of China-an island cloaked in anonymity and inhabited principally by aborigines. Then, rather abruptly, the island was thrust into the maelstrom of European commercial expansion in East Asia, which in its wake drew Chinese peasant pioneers across the straits to Taiwan. This is the story, told from many viewpoints, of how Taiwan was transformed over a period of three centuries from a raw frontier to a stable entity with social and economic patterns similar to those found along the coastal mainland of southeastern China. 2023-10-05T10:05:35Z 2023-10-05T10:05:35Z 1980 book ONIX_20231005_9780824880040_209 9780824880040 9780824807054 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/114429 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv9zckx5 University of Hawai'i Press 10.2307/j.ctv9zckx5 10.2307/j.ctv9zckx5 e44031ed-f19b-493a-b6b0-2a6d8788d971 cf5a2a63-c2ca-4fe5-a7be-a78cffe9e87f 9780824880040 9780824807054 [...] open access |
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