China S Island Frontier

Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824880040

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China's Island Frontier by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

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.

Author : Simon Long
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : China
ISBN : 0312052731

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Taiwan by Simon Long Pdf

Author : S. Long
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230377394

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Taiwan: China's Last Frontier by S. Long Pdf

Taiwan has been described as a ticking time bomb. For all the fratricidal strife that has scarred Chinese politics since 1949, Peking's leaders have never wavered from their commitment to reunification with Taiwan. There, 20 million people have witnessed one of the great economic miracles of the post-war era. But their government is founded on a constitution that claims legitimacy over all of China. In this provocative study, Simon Long looks at the historical background to China's claim to sovereignty, and at the roots of Taiwan's economic triumphs.

Author : Nola Cooke,Tana Li
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742530833

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Water Frontier by Nola Cooke,Tana Li Pdf

This innovative book rethinks the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century history of coastal and riverine southwest Indochina, the 'water frontier' of the title. It repositions old state-centered histories to reveal the region as a single, multiethnic economic zone knit together by the itineraries of junk traders and by the activities of many southern Chinese, settlers, sojourners, and merchants, whose local significance it explores. In so doing, it pioneers a new, nationally-neutral way of perceiving this dynamic region.

Author : Charles Patterson Giersch
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0674021711

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Asian Borderlands by Charles Patterson Giersch Pdf

With comparative frontier history and pioneering use of indigenous sources, Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest. He focuses on the Tai domains of the Yunnan frontier on the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.

Author : John Robert Shepherd
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0804720665

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Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800 by John Robert Shepherd Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : David Tobin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488402

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Securing China's Northwest Frontier by David Tobin Pdf

David Tobin analyses how Chinese nation-building shapes identity and security dynamics between Han and Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Author : Emma Jinhua Teng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173938

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Taiwan’s Imagined Geography by Emma Jinhua Teng Pdf

"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 province by the late nineteenth century involved not only a reconsideration of imperial geography but also a reconceptualization of the Chinese domain. The annexation of Taiwan was only one incident in the much larger phenomenon of Qing expansionism into frontier areas that resulted in a doubling of the area controlled from Beijing and the creation of a multi-ethnic polity. The author argues that travelers’ accounts and pictures of frontiers such as Taiwan led to a change in the imagined geography of the empire. In representing distant lands and ethnically diverse peoples of the frontiers to audiences in China proper, these works transformed places once considered non-Chinese into familiar parts of the empire and thereby helped to naturalize Qing expansionism. By viewing Taiwan–China relations as a product of the history of Qing expansionism, the author contributes to our understanding of current political events in the region."

Author : Victor Zatsepine
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774834124

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Beyond the Amur by Victor Zatsepine Pdf

Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial Russia as the two empires competed for resources. Official histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground caught between rival empires. Zatsepine, by contrast, views it as a unified natural economy populated by Chinese, Russian, Indigenous, Japanese, Korean, Manchu, and Mongol people who crossed the border in search of work or trade and who came together to survive a harsh physical environment. This colourful account of a region and its people highlights the often-overlooked influence of frontier developments on state politics and imperial policies and histories.

Author : Chunming Wu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811640797

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The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China by Chunming Wu Pdf

This open access book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic connectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient Indigenous Bai Yue (百越) in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast China and southeast Asia. In this maritime Frontier of China, historical documents demonstrate the development of the “barbarian” Bai Yue and Island Yi (岛夷) and their cultural interaction with the northern Huaxia (华夏) in early Chinese civilization within the geopolitical order of the “Central State-Four Peripheries Barbarians-Four Seas”. Archaeological typologies of the prehistoric remains reveal a unique cultural tradition dominantly originating from the local Paleolithic age and continuing to early Neolithization across this border region. Further analysis of material culture from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age proves the stability and resilience of the indigenous cultures even with the migratory expansion of Huaxia and Han (汉) from north to south. Ethnographical investigations of aboriginal heritage highlight their native cultural context, seafaring technology and navigation techniques, and their interaction with Austronesian and other foreign maritime ethnicities. In a word, this manuscript presents a new perspective on the unique cultural landscape of indigenous ethnicities in southeast China with thousands of years’ stable tradition, a remarkable maritime orientation and overseas cultural hybridization in the coastal region of southeast China.

Author : Mark Anton Allee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0804722722

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Law and Local Society in Late Imperial China by Mark Anton Allee Pdf

Based on case files, this study explores the social significance of the traditional Chinese legal system, and investigates how people utilized the courts during the course of criminal and civil disputes. The author emphasizes the ways in which law shaped social and economic change and how in turn the legal code and court system were adapted to local realities.

Author : Min Gyo Koo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441962232

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Island Disputes and Maritime Regime Building in East Asia by Min Gyo Koo Pdf

islands has emotional content far beyond any material significance because giving way on the island issue to Japan would be considered as once again compromising the sovereignty over the whole Korean peninsula. For Japan, the Dokdo issue may lack the same degree of strategic and economic values and emotional appeal as the other two territorial disputes that Japan has had with Russia and the two Chinas – namely the Northern Territories/Southern Kurile Islands and the Senkaku Islands, respectively. Nevertheless, fishing resources and the maritime boundary issues became highly salient with the introduction of UNCLOS. Also, the legal, political, and economic issues surrounding Dokdo are all intertwined with Japan’s other territorial disputes to the extent that concessions of sovereignty on any of these island disputes could jeopardize claims or negotiations concerning the rest. South Korea and Japan have forged a deeper diplomatic and economic partn- ship over the past decade. A new spirit of partnership after the landmark joint declaration of 1998 culminated in the successful co-hosting of the World Cup 2002. At the end of 2003 the two neighbors began to negotiate an FTA to further strengthen their already close economic ties. South Korea’s decades-long embargo on Japanese cultural products has now been lifted, while a number of South Korean pop stars are currently sweeping across Japan, creating the so-called “Korean Wave” fever. A pragmatic calculation of national interests would thus suggest cooperative behavior.

Author : Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0765614944

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Taiwan by Murray A. Rubinstein Pdf

This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work is designed in the style of the multi-volume ""Cambridge History of China""

Author : Kyle J. Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840590

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The Frontier Complex by Kyle J. Gardner Pdf

Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.

Author : Naomi Standen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824829834

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Unbounded Loyalty by Naomi Standen Pdf

Unbounded Loyalty investigates how frontiers worked before the modern nation-state was invented. The perspective is that of the people in the borderlands who shifted their allegiance from the post-Tang regimes in North China to the new Liao empire (907–1125). Naomi Standen offers new ways of thinking about borders, loyalty, and identity in premodern China. She takes as her starting point the recognition that, at the time, "China" did not exist as a coherent entity, neither politically nor geographically, neither ethnically nor ideologically. Political borders were not the fixed geographical divisions of the modern world, but a function of relationships between leaders and followers. When local leaders changed allegiance, the borderline moved with them. Cultural identity did not determine people’s actions: Ethnicity did not exist. In this context, she argues, collaboration, resistance, and accommodation were not meaningful concepts, and tenth-century understandings of loyalty were broad and various. Unbounded Loyalty sheds fresh light on the Tang-Song transition by focusing on the much-neglected tenth century and by treating the Liao as the preeminent Tang successor state. It fills several important gaps in scholarship on premodern China as well as uncovering new questions regarding the early modern period. It will be regarded as critically important to all scholars of the Tang, Liao, Five Dynasties, and Song periods and will be read widely by those working on Chinese history from the Han to the Qing.