China's Island Frontier: Studies in the Historical Geography of Taiwan
| dc.contributor.author | Knapp, Ronald G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-05T20:06:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-06-05T20:06:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1980 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9780824880057 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/62865 | |
| dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | |
| dc.subject | HISTORY / Asia / China | |
| dc.title | China's Island Frontier: Studies in the Historical Geography of Taiwan | |
| dc.type | book | |
| dcterms.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. | |
| dcterms.extent | 327 Pages | |
| dcterms.language | eng | |
| dcterms.publisher | Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press | |
| dcterms.type | text |