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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
Harvard University Press, Date: 2004. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2004. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674014510 9780674014510 [US]
ISBN10: 0674014510, ISBN13: 9780674014510, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Hardcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.65 [AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]
ISBN10: 0674014510, ISBN13: 9780674014510, [publisher: Harvard University Asia Center] Hardcover Harvard East Asian Monographs 230. xvi, [6], 370, [11] p. 24 cm. Grey cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Ex library with labels on lower spine and endpapers, ink stamps on text block edges and first pages. Jacket taped to book. [London, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 2004]
Harvard University Asia Center, Date: 2004. Hardcover. ex library-very good/Very good. Harvard East Asian Monographs 230. xvi, [6], 370, [11] p. 24 cm. Grey cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Ex library with labels on lower spine and endpapers, ink stamps on text block edges and first pages. Jacket taped to book. 2004. Harvard University Asia Center ISBN 0674014510 9780674014510 [CA]
ISBN10: 0674014510, ISBN13: 9780674014510, [publisher: Harvard University Asia Center] Hardcover Harvard East Asian Monographs 230. xvi, [6], 370, [11] p. 24 cm. Grey cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Ex library with labels on lower spine and endpapers, ink stamps on text block edges and first pages. Jacket taped to book. [London, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 2004]
Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London, Date: 2004 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16 x 23.5 cm; 0.7 kg; 370 pages with a few illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Harvard East Asian Monographs 230.; Until 350 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "savage island" beyond the pale of Chinese civilization. When the Qing conquered the island in 1683, the court debated the value of colonizing this "ball of mud". Yet, two centuries later, in 1895, Chinese writers lamented the island's cession to Japan as a loss of sacred national territory. Taiwan's trajectory from "savage island" to China's "sovereign territory" is the subject of this book. The author argues that colonial travel writing, ethnographic illustrations, and maps were central to this transformation and that traveler's representations of Taiwan played a vital role in expressing and producing Chinese ideologies of imperial expansion and race. At the same time, travel writing and images of the frontiers transformed the imagined geography of the Chinese empire itself, as the Qing doubled the empire's territory. By representing distant lands and frontier peoples to audiences in China proper, these works converted places once considered non-Chinese into familiar parts or the empire. They dramatically changed the idea ...
ISBN10: 0674014510, ISBN13: 9780674014510, [publisher: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London] Hardcover First Edition English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16 x 23.5 cm; 0.7 kg; 370 pages with a few illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Harvard East Asian Monographs 230.; Until 350 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "savage island" beyond the pale of Chinese civilization. When the Qing conquered the island in 1683, the court debated the value of colonizing this "ball of mud". Yet, two centuries later, in 1895, Chinese writers lamented the island's cession to Japan as a loss of sacred national territory. Taiwan's trajectory from "savage island" to China's "sovereign territory" is the subject of this book. The author argues that colonial travel writing, ethnographic illustrations, and maps were central to this transformation and that traveler's representations of Taiwan played a vital role in expressing and producing Chinese ideologies of imperial expansion and race. At the same time, travel writing and images of the frontiers transformed the imagined geography of the Chinese empire itself, as the Qing doubled the empire's territory. By representing distant lands and frontier peoples to audiences in China proper, these works converted places once considered non-Chinese into familiar parts or the em ...
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