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Alsford, Niki J. P.

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Transitions to modernity in Taiwan : = the spirit of 1895 and the cession of Formosa to Japan /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transitions to modernity in Taiwan :/ Niki J.P. Alsford.
Reminder of title:	the spirit of 1895 and the cession of Formosa to Japan /
Author:	Alsford, Niki J. P.
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge, : c2018.,
Description:	230 p. ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	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.
Subject:	British - Taiwan. -
Subject:	Taiwan - Politics and government - 1895-1945. -
ISBN:	9780367177942

Transitions to modernity in Taiwan : = the spirit of 1895 and the cession of Formosa to Japan /
Alsford, Niki J. P.

Transitions to modernity in Taiwan :the spirit of 1895 and the cession of Formosa to Japan /Niki J.P. Alsford. - Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge,c2018. - 230 p. ;24 cm. - Routledge research on Taiwan ;21. - Routledge research on Taiwan..

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-222) and index.

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.

"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 'notables', the document appealed to the British government to incorporate the island into a protectorate in the wake of an impending Japanese invasion. The British declined. This book addresses the interconnectivity of these two communities, by focusing on the market town of Dadaocheng in northern Taiwan. It seeks to contextualise and examine the establishment of a 'settler society' as well as the creation of a sojourning British community, showing how they became a precursor of modernity and 'middle classism' there. By uncovering who the signatories of the petition were and what their motivation was to call upon the British consulate to bring the island under its protection, it brings into focus a remarkable period of transition not only for the history of Taiwan but also for the modern history of China. Using 1895 as a year of enquiry, it ultimately challenges the current orthodoxy that modernity in Taiwan was simply a by-product of the Japanese colonial period. As a social and transnational history of the events that took place in Taiwan during 1895, this book will be useful for students of East Asian Studies, Modern Chinese Studies and Asian History."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9780367177942GBP38.99

LCCN: 2017005734Subjects--Topical Terms:

3500120
British
--Taiwan.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

530456
Taiwan
--Politics and government--1895-1945.

LC Class. No.: DS799.716 / .A47 2018

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