Taiwan's Imagined Geography - Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895

Figures and Color Plates xiii Note on Romanization xvii Dates of Selected Eras xix Introduction 1(33) 1 An Island Beyond the Seas Enters the Map 34(26) 2 Taiwan as a Living Museum: Savagery and Tropes of Anachronism 60(21) 3 A Hidden Jade in a Ball of Mud: Landscape and Colonial Rhetoric 81(20) 4 Debating Difference: Racial and Ethnical Discourses 101(21) 5 The Raw and the Cooked: Classifying Taiwan's Land and Natives 122(27) 6 Picturing Savagery: Visual Representations of Racial Difference 149(24) 7 An Island of Women: The Discourse of Gender 173(21) 8 Fashioning Chinese Origins: Nineteenth-Century Ethnohistoriography 194(15) 9 "Opening the Mountains and Pacifying the Savages" 209(28) Conclusion: Taiwan as a Lost Part of "My China" 237(12) Epilogue: On the Impossibility of a Postcolonial Theory of Taiwan 249(12) Appendixes A Excerpts from Yu Yonghe's Small Sea Travelogue 261(24) B Excerpts from Ding Shaoyi's Brief Record of the Eastern Ocean 285(2) Reference Matter Notes 287(40) Works Cited 327(14) Character List 341(8) Index 349