Transitions to modernity in Taiwan : the spirit of 1895 and the cession of Formosa to Japan /
"On 19 April 1895, British Consul Lionel Charles Hopkins, at the northern port of Tamsui, was summoned by Tang Jingsong, the governor of Taiwan, to his yamen in the western district of Taipei. Shortly after his arrival, Hopkins was handed a petition. Signed by a number of Taiwanese 'notabl...
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London ; New York :
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group,
2018.
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| Series: | Routledge research on Taiwan.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- The petition: the history behind a document
- "The poor in China just grab a bag and run over": Han pioneer settlement in Formosa from the seventeenth century
- The British treaty port community
- "And there the twain shall meet": the formation of an urban gentry in a market-town in northern Taiwan
- The spirit of 1895: occupation, capitulation, and resistance
- Conclusion.