{"id":271,"date":"2007-06-18T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T03:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2007\/06\/taiwan-gained-and-lost\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:02:36","slug":"taiwan-gained-and-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/06\/taiwan-gained-and-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan gained and lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Japan<\/i> (ahem) <i>Focus<\/i> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/products\/details\/2450\">great excerpt<\/a> from MIT&#8217;s Emma J. Teng&#8217;s <i>Taiwan\u2019s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing, 1683\u20131895<\/i> up this week. To be fair, there is a Japan connection towards the end<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1895, only a short time after Taiwan had become an official province of China, the Qing were forced by their defeat in the Sino-Japanese war to cede the island to Japan. The reaction of Chinese elites to the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki demonstrates how far Chinese ideas about Taiwan had come since annexation. Officials and students in China vigorously protested the Treaty, signing declarations condemning what they called the \u201cselling of national territory,\u201d and the \u201csevering of the nation.\u201d Whereas Chinese officials two centuries earlier had protested the annexation of Taiwan as a waste of money, these protesters now declared that Taiwan should not be sold for any price. Pessimists predicted that once this piece of China was lost, the rest would soon fall like dominoes to imperial aggressors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be teaching the Qing portion of the China sequence next semester, so this is currently of great interest to me. I heard a great talk on Korean Buddhist travel literature at ASPAC, too: it&#8217;s a theme!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan (ahem) Focus has a great excerpt from MIT&#8217;s Emma J. Teng&#8217;s Taiwan\u2019s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing, 1683\u20131895 up this week. To be fair, there is a Japan connection towards the end In 1895, only a short time after Taiwan had become an official province of China, the Qing were forced by their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,102,126,63,153,161,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-china-japan","category-general","category-japan","category-qing","category-taiwan","category-web-sites-and-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-4n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}