Frontier Taiwan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frontier Taiwan write by Michelle Yeh. This book was released on 2001-04-05. Frontier Taiwan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of modern Taiwanese poetry parallels and tells the story of this transformation from periphery to frontier. Containing translations of nearly 400 poems from 50 poets spanning the entire twentieth century, this anthology reveals Taiwan in a broad spectrum of themes, forms, and styles: from lyrical meditation to political satire, haiku to concrete poetry, surrealism to postmodernism. The in-depth introduction outlines the development of modern poetry in the unique historical and cultural context of Taiwan. Comprehensive in both depth and scope, Frontier Taiwan beautifully captures the achievements of the nation's modern poetic traditions.
Taiwan: China's Last Frontier
Taiwan: China's Last Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taiwan: China's Last Frontier write by S. Long. This book was released on 1991-01-31. Taiwan: China's Last Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
China's Island Frontier
China's Island Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Island Frontier write by Ronald G. Knapp. This book was released on 2019-03-31. China's Island Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800
Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800 write by John Robert Shepherd. This book was released on 1993. Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Stanford University Press classic.
China's Last Imperial Frontier
China's Last Imperial Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Last Imperial Frontier write by Xiuyu Wang. This book was released on 2011-11-28. China's Last Imperial Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China's Last Imperial Frontier explores imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last decades of the Qing. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against indigenous chieftaincies and Buddhist monasteries in the east Tibetan region seeking to replace native authorities with state bureaucrats by redrawing the politically diverse frontier into a system of Chinese-style counties. Historically, at all the strategic frontier locations, the state had been for the most part outstripped by local institutions in political, military, and ideological strengths. With perceived threats from the Anglo-Russian “Great Game” accentuating Qing vulnerability in Tibet, the Sichuan government took advantage of the frontier crisis by encroaching upon local and Lhasa domains in Kham. Even though the Kham campaign was portrayed in Qing official discourse as a part of the nationwide reforms of “New Policies” (xinzheng) and administrative regularization (gaitu guiliu), its progress on the ground was influenced by the dynamics of interregional relations, including Sichuan’s competition with central Tibet, power struggles among Qing frontier officials, and varied Khampa responses to the new regime. The growing regionalism intensified the resistance of local forces to imperial authority. Despite the uneven results of the late Qing campaign, it had come to serve as an important source of sovereignty claims and policy inspirations for the subsequent governments.
