1st Edition
Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan The Spirit of 1895 and the Cession of Formosa to Japan
By Niki Alsford
Copyright 2017
242 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction
1. The Petition: The History Behind a Document
2. 'The Poor in China Just Grab a Bag and Run Over': Han Pioneer Settlement in Formosa from the Seventeenth Century
3. The British Treaty-Port Community
4. 'And There the Twain Shall Meet': The Formation of an Urban Gentry in a Market Town in Northern Taiwan
5. The Spirit of 1895: Occupation, Capitulation, and Resistance
Conclusion
Biography
Niki J.P. Alsford is Reader in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and is Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS.
