China's Island Frontier Studies in the Historical Geography of Taiwan
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...
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Other Authors: | Knapp, Ronald G. (Editor) |
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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University of Hawai'i Press
1980
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