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Until 300 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "land beyond the seas," a "ball of mud" inhabited by "naked and tattooed savages." The incorporation of this island into the Qing empire in the seventeenth century and its evolution into a province by the late nineteenth century involved not only a reconsideration of imperial geography but also a reconceptualization of the Chinese domain. The annexation of Taiwan was only one incident in the much larger phenomenon of Qing expansionism into frontier areas that resulted in a doubling of the area controlled from Beijing and the creation of a multi-ethnic polity. The author argues that travelers' accounts and pictures of frontiers such as Taiwan led to a change in the imagined geography of the empire. In representing distant lands and ethnically diverse peoples of the frontiers to audiences in China proper, these works transformed places once considered non-Chinese into familiar parts of the empire and thereby helped to naturalize Qing expansionism.

By viewing Taiwan-China relations as a product of the history of Qing expansionism, the author contributes to our understanding of current political events in the region.

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An introduction to the geography, history, economy, government, people, and culture of the island republic of Taiwan. ... Read more

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This book analyses patterns in rural China in the late 1980s: patterns of causes of death, of what people ate, what they smoked and drank, what kinds of houses they lived in, what they worked at, their education, and many measurements of their blood (for cholesterol, vitamins, evidence of infectious disease) and urine (for food metabolites and other factors). The variation is examined at the level of counties scattered all over mainland China and Taiwan, representing the extremes of values for deaths from specific cancers; ie the counties with the highest and the lowest rates of lung cancer, or the highest and lowest for liver cancer. Coincidentally, this covers the extremes of many of the other variables, such as the intake of fresh fruits and vegetables, and smoking rates. The analysis that fills the pages is the correlation of all of these patterns, one variable at a time, with all the others. The question it answers is, "How well does the variation among the counties for one variable (eg cholesterol in the blood) correlate with the variation across China in deaths from different diseases (eg heart disease)?".If the correlation is strong, it may mean that the variables are related in some causal sense, although this cannot be assumed. If the correlation is weak, it means that the variation must be caused mainly by other factors. Importantly, if the correlation is weak, it does not necessarily mean that the two variables are not related; for example, a weak correlation between blood cholesterol and deaths from heart disease does not mean that cholesterol is not implicated in heart disease, but that in China other factors are more important. Each variable page is similarly arranged, and there are keys to interpreting each element at the beginning of major sections. The book also includes numerous extra tables in the back that give mean values for many variables. These can be useful as many of these values in China are so different from the much more available and common Western values. We tend to think of the range of Western variables as somehow 'normal', without realizing that in China the mean value may not even be within the generally accepted normal range that we are used to. ... Read more

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Data, Data, Data
Excellent, but expensive (they could have at least made it hard cover) report of the data from "The China Study".There is no real text or discussion.This is the raw data so you can do your own analysis.

It takes a few minutes to get used to the organization but once you understand the system it's not bad to flip around to delve into the details you want.

This is a great reference book.Great data for doing your own studies.This information would be more useful if provided on a CD so it could be electronically extracted and manipulated.Typing it by hand into your own software is tedious and time consuming.

This book is not something that very many people will be interested in. ... Read more

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A study of the Taiwan issue after the Cold War, with the focus on the changes in mainland China's Taiwan policy in the period between Lee Teng-hui's 1995 US tour and his "two-states" theory in 1999. It discusses how the Taiwan Strait crises of 1995 and 1999 started. ... Read more

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This new Routledge Major Work is a four-volume collection which gathers the best and most influential research on the contemporary politics of Taiwan. Although the collected materials are in English, they include contributions from leading Taiwan experts in Europe, the United States, Japan, and Taiwan.

Volumes I (‘Nationalism and National Identity’) and II (‘Democratization, Democratic Consolidation’) address the two key issues that have received the most attention from political scientists working on Taiwan. Gathered here is the best research on competing nation-building projects and national identities, including the ‘Taiwanese versus Chinese’ identity debate. Various explanations for Taiwan’s democratic transition are explored in depth. Other topics include religion and democracy, along with appraisals of Taiwan’s democratic consolidation and its current state.

The scholarship collected in Volume III (‘Consequences of Democratization’) examines the policy implications of democratization while the last volume (‘Party and Local Politics’) focuses on salient issues in Taiwan’s domestic politics. There is a growing literature addressing a broad range of aspects of the island’s political development since the advent of multi-party politics in the late 1980s. Volumes III and IV pay particular attention to the following topics: political corruption; constitutional reform; the creation of a social welfare system; party systems and party politics; political communication and electoral politics; changing patterns in local politics; the development of social movements; and the political impact of the change in ruling parties in 2000.

Politics of Modern Taiwan is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

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Chapters: Time in China, Northeast Coast National Scenic Area, Chianan Canal, List of Volcanoes in Taiwan, Eight Views of Taiwan, Meinong, Kaohsiung, List of National Scenic Areas in Taiwan, Southwest Coast National Scenic Area. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The two political entities currently using "China" as part of their official name, the People's Republic of China (PRC) (including mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau) and the Republic of China (ROC) (commonly referred to as Taiwan) are in the same time zone which is eight hours ahead of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8). Before the founding of PRC in 1949, when the whole Chinese region was governed by ROC, there were five time zones in China. Although all jurisdictions within the region are placed under the same time zone, for historical and political reasons, different jurisdictions keep their own time standard with their own names. Time zones were first set up and made official in China in 1912 under the Republic of China. The country was divided into five time zones, namely GMT+5.5, GMT+6, GMT+7, GMT+8 and GMT+8.5. Before that, time varied, while astrological predictions were conducted according to the time standard based on the locations of then capitals of the imperial dynasties. After the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the Communist Party took over mainland China and established the People's Republic of China. The government of the then ruling Kuomintang (KMT), while retaining control of Taiwan and other minor islands), was relocated to Taipei. The People's Republic of China established one single time zone (UTC+8) for the entirety of its claimed territories, while the Republic of China continued to place the remaining territories of Taiwan under the UTC+8 time zone. In other wo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3224065 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Focus on Geography, published by American Geographical Society on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 4481 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Earthquake hazards in Taiwan--the September 1999 Chichi earthquake.
Author: Engelbert Altenburger
Publication: Focus on Geography (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 48Issue: 2Page: 1(8)

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 626 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895.(Book review)
Author: Murray A. Rubinstein
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 67Issue: 4Page: 784(2)

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Chapters: Shilin Night Market, Nantou City, Hualien County, Ji-An, Hualien, Xiulin, Hualien, Xinzhuang, Taiwan, Ruisui, Hualien, Kenting National Park, Fenglin, Hualien, Wanrong, Hualien, Fuli, Hualien, Guangfu, Hualien, Xincheng, Hualien, Zhuoxi, Hualien, Yuli, Hualien, Gongliao, Taipei, Taitung County, Xindian, County-Controlled City, Yanshui, Tainan, Tainan County, Bali, Taipei, List of Rivers in Taiwan, Sanxia, Taipei, Xizhi, Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, Alian, Kaohsiung, Changhua County, Sun Moon Lake, Fengshan, Taiwan, Fulong Beach, Hejiang Province, Zuoying District, Taichung Airport, Hsinchu County, Cemetery of Zhenghaijun, Fengyuan, Sizihwan, Guishan Island, Kaohsiung County, Zhuoshui River, Nantou County, Magong, Taiwan, Sanyi, Miaoli, Yangmei, Taoyuan, Sanchong, Su-Ao, Yilan, Dajia, Taichung, Xikang, Yunlin County, Miaoli County, Chiayi County, Central Mountain Range, Northeast Coast National Scenic Area, Wulai, Taipei, Lieyu, Kinmen, Tamshui Fisherman's Wharf, Wufeng, Taichung, Yilan City, Dounan, Yunlin, Tucheng, Chengcing Lake, Maokong, Yushan Range, Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery, Tatun Volcano Group, Dajia River, Jincheng, Kinmen, Xinhua, Tainan, Luzhu, Taoyuan, Kinmen Airport, Fengjia Night Market, Yehliu, Toucheng, Yilan, Jiji, Nantou, Puli, Nantou, Gaoping River, Taitung City, Yongkang, Taiwan, Anping District, Xueshan Range, Jiao Lung Waterfall, Chin Pao San, Jhiben Hot Spring, Donggang, Pingtung, Qixing Mountain, Dabajian Mountain, Shitan, Miaoli, Guantian, Tainan, Ape Hill, Changhua City, Huatung Valley, Dali, Taiwan, Chianan Canal, Wuciou, Kinmen, Namaxia Township, Dakeng Scenic Area, Madou, Tainan, Xinying, Cimei, Penghu, Qimei, Penghu, List of Volcanoes in Taiwan, Matsu Beigan Airport, Sanzhi, Taipei, Baoshan, Hsinchu, Taimali, Taitung, Pingxi, Taipei, Pingsi, Taipei, Hengchun, Pingtung, Bashi Channel, Beigang, Yunlin, Ruifang, Taipei, Dadu, Taichung, Lamay Island, Woody Island, South Chi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2094821 ... Read more

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Taiwan. History of Taiwan, Timeline of Taiwanese history, Prehistory of Taiwan, Dutch Formosa, Taiwan under Qing Dynasty rule, Taiwan under Japanese rule, Geography of Taiwan, Energy policy of Taiwan, Demographics of Taiwan, Taiwanese aborigines, Taiwanese people, Languages of Taiwan, Religion in Taiwan, Culture of Taiwan, Political status of Taiwan, Economy of Taiwan, Economic history of Taiwan, Outline of Taiwan ... Read more

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During the mid-1990s, Taiwan witnessed a remarkable proliferation of historical writings and cultural movements pertaining to 'the local'. 'Place (difang)' and 'community (shequ)' became two ubiquitous terms in the lexicon of being Taiwanese.
This book is a critical examination of the socio-historical condition in which the discourse of local diversity emerged and gradually permeated Taiwan's public culture. Interweaving ethnographic sensibility and theoretical insights across disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies and cultural geography the study elucidates the complex relationships between localism, nationalism and globalism. Not only is it a rare type of ethnography in Taiwan studies, this book also enriches our understanding of the increasingly significant field of East Asia (post)modernity. ... Read more

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Ian Neary looks in detail at the history of the introduction of human rights ideas into Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and examines how, and to what effect, state and society have incorporated the specific international standards on childrens'and patients' rights into legal systems and social practice.
This comprehensively researched, accessibly written book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian studies, human rights, sociology and politics. ... Read more