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Author : Charles William Le Gendre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789860321272
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Notes of Travel in Formosa written by Charles William Le Gendre and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Ravina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190656093
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book To Stand with the Nations of the World written by Mark Ravina and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around the world, building a powerful and modern Japanese nation with the help of European and American advisors. While revering the Japanese past, the Meiji government boldly embraced the foreign and the new. What explains this paradox? How could Japan's 1868 revolution be both modern and traditional, both xenophobic and cosmopolitan? To Stand with the Nations of the World explains the paradox of the Restoration through the forces of globalization. The Meiji Restoration was part of the global "long nineteenth century" during which ambitious nation states like Japan, Britain, Germany, and the United States challenged the world's great multi-ethnic empires--Ottoman, Qing, Romanov, and Hapsburg. Japan's leaders wanted to celebrate Japanese uniqueness, but they also sought international recognition. Rather than simply mimic world powers like Britain, they sought to make Japan distinctly Japanese in the same way that Britain was distinctly British. Rather than sing "God Save the King," they created a Japanese national anthem with lyrics from ancient poetry, but Western-style music. The Restoration also resonated with Japan's ancient past. In the 600s and 700s, Japan was threatened by the Tang dynasty, a dynasty as powerful as the Roman empire. In order to resist the Tang, Japanese leaders borrowed Tang methods, building a centralized Japanese state on Tang models, and learning continental science and technology. As in the 1800s, Japan co-opted international norms while insisting on Japanese distinctiveness. When confronting globalization in 1800s, Japan looked back to that "ancient globalization" of the 600s and 700s. The ancient past was therefore not remote or distant, but immediate and vital.
Author : Robert Eskildsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811334803
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia written by Robert Eskildsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history of a military expedition the Japanese government sent to southern Taiwan in 1874, in the context of Japan’s subordination to Western powers in the unequal treaty system in East Asia. It argues that events on the ground in Taiwan show the Japanese government intended to establish colonies in southern and eastern Taiwan, and justified its colonial intent based on the argument that a state must spread civilization and political authority to territories where it claimed sovereignty, thereby challenging Chinese authority in East Asia and consolidating its power domestically. The book considers the history of the Taiwan Expedition in the light of how Japanese imperialism began: it emerged as part of the process of consolidating government power after the Meiji Restoration, it derived from Western imperialism, it developed in a dynamic relationship with Western imperialism and it increased Japan’s leverage in its competition for influence in East Asia.
Author : Leonard H. D. Gordon
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739118696
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Confrontation Over Taiwan written by Leonard H. D. Gordon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth Century China and the Powers is a full and detailed account of international relations of Taiwan during the nineteenth century and specifically, the period between 1840 and 1895. During this time the western powers and Japan were engaged in imperialist designs seeking commercial and strategic gain in the South China Sea, which ultimately led to the Japanese colonization of Taiwan. Leonard Gordon, a diplomatic historian of East Asia, closely examines the foreign policies of China, Great Britain, the United States, France, and Japan. Also taking account of historic events on Taiwan and the mainland, Gordon has researched, in addition to the extensive published national records, unpublished archival materials in Taiwan, Japan, the United States, and Great Britain. Providing a context for understanding the current situation in Taiwan, the thorough research and historical analysis of Confrontation over Taiwan make this an essential book for students of East Asian History and International Affairs.
Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317266285
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Treaty Ports in Modern China written by Robert Bickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. Topics covered include land and how it was acquired, the flow of people, good and information, specific individuals and families who typify life in the treaty ports, and technical advances, exploration, and innovation in government.
Author : Ts'ui-jung Liu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137572310
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia written by Ts'ui-jung Liu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.
Author : Paul D. Barclay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520296214
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Outcasts of Empire written by Paul D. Barclay and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : empires and indigenous peoples, global transformation and the limits of international society -- From wet diplomacy to scorched earth : the Taiwan expedition, the Guardline and the Wushe rebellion -- The long durée and the short circuit : gender, language and territory in the making of indigenous Taiwan -- Tangled up in red : textiles, trading posts and ethnic bifurcation in Taiwan -- The geobodies within a geobody : the visual economy of race-making and indigeneity
Author : Evan N. Dawley
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175984
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Becoming Taiwanese written by Evan N. Dawley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan’s modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevailing scholarly focus on Taiwan after 1987, Becoming Taiwanese examines the important first era in the history of Taiwanese identity construction during the early twentieth century, in the place that served as the crucible for the formation of new identities: the northern port city of Jilong (Keelung).Part colonial urban social history, part exploration of the relationship between modern ethnicity and nationalism, Becoming Taiwanese offers new insights into ethnic identity formation. Evan Dawley examines how people from China’s southeastern coast became rooted in Taiwan; how the transfer to Japanese colonial rule established new contexts and relationships that promoted the formation of distinct urban, ethnic, and national identities; and how the so-called retrocession to China replicated earlier patterns and reinforced those same identities. Based on original research in Taiwan and Japan, and focused on the settings and practices of social organizations, religion, and social welfare, as well as the local elites who served as community gatekeepers, Becoming Taiwanese fundamentally challenges our understanding of what it means to be Taiwanese."
Author : Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Dublin Review written by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Eskildsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Foreign Adventurers and the Aborigines of Southern Taiwan, 1867-1874 written by Robert Eskildsen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William B. Cogar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Naval History written by William B. Cogar and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Author : Joshua Samuel Brown
Publisher : Global Directions/Things Asian Press
ISBN 13 : 9781934159705
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Formosa Moon written by Joshua Samuel Brown and published by Global Directions/Things Asian Press. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stephanie, if we're going to get serious I should tell you that Taiwan will always be the other woman." "You mean I have to share you with 23 million other people?" Stephanie has never been to Asia; Portland, Oregon seems to be a metropolis to this small-town girl. Josh has spent years living in Taiwan and plans to make that country his home once again. Several years later, they've packed a few essentials, given away everything else and are on a flight to Taipei. From five-star luxury to a hostel on an island that was once a penal colony, from the chaotic excitement of urban night markets to an isolated mountain village, Josh shows Stephanie the country that has claimed him. Hoping she'll fall in love with Taiwan and choose to live there with him, he's even chosen the place where he plans to propose to her. And then they visit a fortune-teller. Stephanie, plunged into a whirlwind exploration of Taiwan before she's even recovered from jet lag, is an artist faced with a nonstop barrage of sensory overload. She doesn't speak Chinese, she's on a gluten-free diet, and she's firmly rooted in Josh's itinerary, where there's no room for sitting still. Luckily she's a woman with a taste for adventure. Formosa Moon sets the bar for a whole new form of travel writing. Written in two voices, it gives the vivid impressions of a first-time Asia traveler and the deep-rooted knowledge of a man who is returning home. Stephanie's excitement, confusion, and delight combine with Josh's irreverent humor and carefully researched facts to create a travel memoir/travel guide that's cloaked in a quest for home. Josh has already found his but he knows Stephanie needs to find hers in her own way. And then there's that fortune-teller...
Author : Grace Estelle Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Britain and Japan, 1858-1883 written by Grace Estelle Fox and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chiu Hsin-Hui
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900416507X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Colonial 'civilizing Process' in Dutch Formosa written by Chiu Hsin-Hui and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Formosan agency in the encounter with Dutch colonialism and Chinese encroachment, this book reveals a fascinating picture of Taiwan in the early modern era.
Author : John Muir
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597266086
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book John Muir's Last Journey written by John Muir and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a century. Until now. Here edited and published for the first time, John Muir's travel journals from 1911-12, along with his associated correspondence, finally allow us to read in his own words the remarkable story of John Muir's last great journey. Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, John Muir, at the age of seventy-three and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced in this volume allow us to travel with him up the great Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline in the Andes, through southern and central Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and across six oceans and seas in order to reach the rare forests he had so long wished to study. Although this epic journey has received almost no attention from the many commentators on Muir's work, Muir himself considered it among the most important of his life and the fulfillment of a decades-long dream. John Muir's Last Journey provides a rare glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. It also helps us to see John Muir as a different kind of hero, one whose endurance and intellectual curiosity carried him into far fields of adventure even as he aged, and as a private person and family man with genuine affections, ambitions, and fears, not just an iconic representative of American wilderness. With an introduction that sets Muir's trip in the context of his life and work, along with chapter introductions and a wealth of explanatory notes, the book adds important dimensions to our appreciation of one of America's greatest environmentalists. John Muir's Last Journey is a must reading for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature, natural history, and related fields, as well as for naturalists and armchair travelers everywhere.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
