China's Island Frontier

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China's Island Frontier is written by Ronald G. Knapp and published by University of Hawaii Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0824880048 (ISBN 10) and 9780824880040 (ISBN 13).

Until the seventeenth century, Professor Knapp reminds us, Taiwan lay obscure off the southeast coast of China-an island cloaked in anonymity and inhabited principally by aborigines. Then, rather abruptly, the island was thrust into the maelstrom of European commercial expansion in East Asia, which in its wake drew Chinese peasant pioneers across the straits to Taiwan. This is the story, told from many viewpoints, of how Taiwan was transformed over a period of three centuries from a raw frontier to a stable entity with social and economic patterns similar to those found along the coastal mainland of southeastern China.