| Descript |
xvi, 370 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 230
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| Contents |
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: classifying Taiwan's land and natives -- 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." |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-340) and index |
| Subject |
Travelers' writings, Chinese -- History and criticism
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Taiwan -- Description and travel
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| Alt Title |
Chinese colonial travel writing and pictures, 1683-1895 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
0674014510 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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