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Title China's island frontier : studies in the historical geography of Taiwan / edited by Ronald G. Knapp.

Publication Info. Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii and Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, ©1980.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 296 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Note "Five of the essays ... expanded from papers presented at the 1977 meeting of the Association of American Geographers"--Page [ix].
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-287) and indexes.
Contents Part one : Migration and rural settlement -- From aboriginal island to Chinese frontier : the development of Taiwan before 1683 / Wen-hsiung Hsu -- Cultural contact and the migration of Taiwan's aborigines : a historical perspective / I-shou Wang -- Settlement and frontier land tenure / Ronald G. Knapp -- The Chinese settlement of the I-lan Plain / Cho-yun Hsu -- Frontier social organization and social disorder in Ch'ing Taiwan / Wen-hsiung Hsu -- Sequent occupance and place names / Chiao-min Hsieh -- Part two : Urbanization and economic integration -- Walled cities and towns in Taiwan / Tao-chang Chiang -- Lu-kang : a city and its trading system / Donald R. Deglopper -- The development and structure of transportation networks in Taiwan : 1600-1972 / Yi-rong Ann Hsu, Clifton W. Pannell, James O. Wheeler -- Push car railways and Taiwan's development / Ronald G. Knapp -- Sugar : the sweetener in Taiwan's development / Jack F. Williams.
Note Print version record.
Subject Taiwan -- Historical geography.
Historical geography. (OCoLC)fst00958122
Taiwan. (OCoLC)fst01207854
HISTORY / Asia / General.
Added Author Knapp, Ronald G., 1940-
Association of American Geographers.
Other Form: Print version: China's island frontier. Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii and Research Corp. of the University of Hawaii, ©1980 082480743X (DLC) 80018578 (OCoLC)1014201746
ISBN 9780824880040 (electronic bk.)
0824880048 (electronic bk.)
082480743X
9780824807436
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