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Author : James Wheeler Davidson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Island of Formosa, Past and Present written by James Wheeler Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
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Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Academy and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Manthorpe
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 125012641X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Forbidden Nation written by Jonathan Manthorpe and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 400 years, Taiwan has suffered at the hands of multiple colonial powers, but it has now entered the decade when its independence will be won or lost. At the heart of Taiwan's story is the curse of geography that placed the island on the strategic cusp between the Far East and Southeast Asia and made it the guardian of some of the world's most lucrative trade routes. It is the story of the dogged determination of a courageous people to overcome every obstacle thrown in their path. Forbidden Nation tells the dramatic story of the island, its people, and what brought them to this moment when their future will be decided.
Author : Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315485168
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Other Taiwan, 1945-92 written by Murray A. Rubinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the effects of the socio-economic post-war transformation on Taiwan's political system, environment, religious structures, the relationships between the sexes and the different ethnic populations. A complex revisionist portrait of the country emerges.
Author : Christopher Howe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226354866
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy written by Christopher Howe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many in the West, the emergence of Japan as an economic superpower has been as surprising as it has been sudden. After its defeat in World War II, Japan hardly appeared a candidate to lead industrialized nations in productivity and technological innovation, and the "Japanese miracle" is often explained as the result of U.S. aid and protection in the postwar years. In The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy, Christopher Howe locates the sources of Japan's current commercial and financial strength in events tnat occurred well before 1945. In this revisionist account, Howe traces the history of Japanese trade over four centuries to show that the Japanese mastery of trade with the outside world began as long ago as the sixteenth century, with Japan's first contact with European trading partners. Although profitable, this early contact was so destabilizing that the Japanese leadership soon restricted foreign trade mainly to Asian partners. From the early seventeenth to the middle of the nineteenth centuries, Japan developed in relative isolation. Though secluded from the scientific and economic revolutions in the West, Japan proved adept at finding novel solutions to its own problems, and its economy grew in size, diversity, and technological and institutional sophistication. By the nineteenth century, when contacts with the West were reestablished. Japan had developed a remarkable capacity to absorb foreign technologies and to adapt and create new institutions, while retaining significant elements of its traditional system of values. Most importantly, Japan's long-standing reliance on its own ingenuity to solve problems continued to flourish. This tradition, born of necessity, is the most important foundation for Japan's current position as a world economic power.
Author : George H. Kerr
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824880900
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Formosa written by George H. Kerr and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peking ceded Formosa to Japan in 1895, whereupon Japan became the first Asian power in modern times to possess a colony, and the island became a testing ground for imperial policies. For two centuries the Formosan Chinese had resisted authority imposed upon them by inefficient continental Chinese. Now, Tokyo extended to insular Formosa many organizing, modernizing measures characterizing Japan's own vigorous Meiji Revolution. During the next fifty years, as living standards rose to approach those of Japan proper, early leaderless Formosan resistance to alien rule developed into organized appeals for effective representation in local government and at Tokyo. With reversion to continental Chinese control at the end of World War II, Formosans expected to conserve and enhance gains made during the Japanese era. Bitter disappointment promptly led again to rebellious relations with the continent. The author, long resident in Formosa and exclusively concerned with Formosan affairs while in government service during and after World War II, is well qualified to comment upon Formosa's history and prospects. He concludes that the Japanese era left an ineradicable mark upon the island people, an understanding of which will illuminate developments when Peking later undertakes the formidable task of converting Formosa into a fully disciplined and integrated province of the People's Republic of China.
Author : Hosea Ballou Morse
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Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The International Relations of the Chineese Empire written by Hosea Ballou Morse and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hosea Ballou Morse
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Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The International Relations of the Chinese Empire written by Hosea Ballou Morse and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Wachman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563243998
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Taiwan written by Alan Wachman and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1994 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wachman, an English teacher in Taipei from 1980 until about 1990, draws on his own perceptions and on interviews with government and business leaders conducted in the early 1990s to explore the "national identity" of a country that was created out of a refugee camp. He also discusses changes in society and government, prospects for democracy, and the impending reintegration with China. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Alan M. Wachman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315286955
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization written by Alan M. Wachman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan has become a democracy despite the inability of its political elite to agree on the national identity of the state. This is a study of the history of democratisation in the light of the national identity problem, based on interviews with leading figures in the KMT and opposition parties.
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Total Pages : 1266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Special Consular Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John F Copper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429974221
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Taiwan written by John F Copper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly revised and updated edition of Taiwan: Nation-State or Province?, John F. Copper examines Taiwan's geography and history, society and culture, economy, political system, and foreign and security policies in the context of Taiwan's uncertain political status as either a sovereign nation or a province of the People's Republic of China. Copper argues that Taiwan's very rapid and successful democratization suggests Taiwan should be independent and separate from China, while economic links between Taiwan and China indicate the opposite. New to the sixth edition is enhanced coverage of the issues of immigration; the impact of having the world's lowest birthrate; China's economic and military rise and America's decline; Taiwan's relations with China, the United States, and Japan; and the KMT's (Nationalist Party) return to power. The new edition will also examine the implications of the 2012 presidential election. A selected bibliography guides students in further research.
Author : Shih-Shan Henry Tsai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317465164
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Maritime Taiwan written by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers from around the world. Unlike China, with its long tradition of keeping foreigners out, Taiwan has a long history of interaction, both hostile and friendly, with other seafaring nations near and far. "Maritime Taiwan" captures the full drama and details of this remarkable history. It's filled with fascinating stories of foreign adventurers and echoes the bitter songs of Taiwan's aboriginal population, confronted by the convergence of different maritime cultures and values on the island.Here are accounts of the legendary pirate Koxinga, the Chinese junk trade, the mighty Dutch East India Company, British opium traders and Scottish tea merchants, Jesuit priests and Presbyterian missionaries, A French fleet commander, a Japanese colonial administrator, an American aid official, and many more. Here too is an extraordinary view of Taiwan over the centuries, as its distinct identity, culture, and values were shaped by its unique history. Today, with a population of only 23 million, Taiwan is the world's nineteenth largest economy, a vibrant, relatively free society on the strategic route between China and Southeast Asia. Maritime Taiwan also discusses the significant impact of American military, economic, educational, and technological aid on Taiwan's developments and addresses the island's continued importance in maintaining the U.S. hegemony in East Asia.
Author : Edwin Munsell Bliss
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Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Missionary Enterprise written by Edwin Munsell Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107139848
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Dictators and their Secret Police written by Sheena Chestnut Greitens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens' lives.
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Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
