This book explores Taiwan's development from its formal beginnings as a political entity to a home for a Ming-loyalist regime, to a Ch'ing prefecture and province, to its half-century as a Japanese possession, and to fifty years as the home of the Kuomintang-controlled Republic of China.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-12-15
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:929 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:576
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780765614940

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Innehållsförteckning

1. The Shaping of Taiwan's Landscapes 2. The Politics of Taiwan Aboriginal Origins 3. Up the Mountains and Out to the Sea: The Expansion of the Fukienese in the Late Ming Period 4. The Seventeenth-Century Transformation: Taiwan under the Dutch and the Cheng Regime 5. The Island Frontier of the Ch'ing, 1684–1780 6. From Landlords to Local Strongmen: The Transformation of Local Elites in Mid–Ch'ing Taiwan 1780–1862 7. From Treaty Ports to Provincial Status, 1860–1894 8. Taiwan Under Japanese Rule, 1895–1945: The Vicissitudes of Colonialism 9. Taiwanese New Literature and the Colonial Context: A Historical Survey 10. Between Assimilation and Independence: Taiwanese Political Aspirations Under Nationalist Chinese Rule, 1945–1948 11. A Bastion Created, a Regime Reformed, an Economy Reengineered, 1949–1970 12. Identity and Social Change in Taiwanese Religion 13. Taiwan's Socioeconomic Modernization, 1971–1996 14. Literature in Post–1949 Taiwan, 1950 to 1980s 15. Aboriginal Self–Government: Taiwan's Uncompleted Agenda 16. Political Taiwanization and Pragmatic Diplomacy: The Eras of Chiang Ching-kuo and Lee Teng-hui, 1971–1994 17. Taiwan Enters Troubled Waters: The Elective Presidencies of Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian 18. Contributors