Taiwan's Imagined Geography

Emma J. Teng is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

出版者:Harvard University Asia Center

作者:Emma Jinhua Teng

页数:400

出版时间:2006-3-1

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780674021198

丛书系列:The Harvard East Asian Monographs

图书标签:海外中国研究台湾史清史臺灣史台湾历史近代史邓津华

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.

读后感

summary: typical orientalist thinking in Qing officials' writing about Taiwan (discourse analysis): privation and primitivism (礼失而求诸野...etc.); raw and cooked savages; gendered relation between Han the "savages;" visual representation of the island...

summary: typical orientalist thinking in Qing officials' writing about Taiwan (discourse analysis): privation and primitivism (礼失而求诸野...etc.); raw and cooked savages; gendered relation between Han the "savages;" visual representation of the island...

summary: typical orientalist thinking in Qing officials' writing about Taiwan (discourse analysis): privation and primitivism (礼失而求诸野...etc.); raw and cooked savages; gendered relation between Han the "savages;" visual representation of the island...

summary: typical orientalist thinking in Qing officials' writing about Taiwan (discourse analysis): privation and primitivism (礼失而求诸野...etc.); raw and cooked savages; gendered relation between Han the "savages;" visual representation of the island...

summary: typical orientalist thinking in Qing officials' writing about Taiwan (discourse analysis): privation and primitivism (礼失而求诸野...etc.); raw and cooked savages; gendered relation between Han the "savages;" visual representation of the island...

用户评价

非常清晰有条理，没有复杂的cliche, 就算是有，也解释得很清楚；在运用rhetoric分析问题上，接地气，有理有据，没有过分依赖单纯的文本／文字分析。和Pratt比，感觉Pratt对十八世纪文本的依赖更强导致了失真。唯一的不足，我认为是，作者过分的强调了清朝的殖民统治是如何如何得特殊（Hostler的书里也有类似问题），从而强加运用过多的confusciansim去论证／支持这个论点，在某些方面看来有点牵强。并且，作者没有完全分析到清朝（满）到特殊性，我想清朝对待道家的态度多少还是有点不同。anyway，是本好书！

腾锦华

从旅行志对台湾描述由“野蛮”到“文明”的转向出发，提出了将清朝对台湾的扩张也视为一种imperialism的观点。这个观点否认了imperialism的西方性，也提出了如何重新思考台湾历史和边疆的问题。结尾对现实政治的思考很有趣但细节有待商榷。

特别好。我到了这儿后最喜欢读的作者，语言生动简朴，看得超快的。在race and ethnicity上有非常新颖的视角。主要研究清至民国的区域民族认同及中华民族的建构与演变的问题。20121104

从旅行志对台湾描述由“野蛮”到“文明”的转向出发，提出了将清朝对台湾的扩张也视为一种imperialism的观点。这个观点否认了imperialism的西方性，也提出了如何重新思考台湾历史和边疆的问题。结尾对现实政治的思考很有趣但细节有待商榷。