2019/03/31 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Chinese history and philosophy #Economic Zones and Regional Development #Frontier #China #Geography #Archaeology
paper · doi:10.2307/j.ctv9zckx5
openalex publication_date 2019/03/31 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
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.