lecture summary
Main Questions
1. How do we study Taiwan, and what does it mean to study Taiwan?
2. Is Taiwan a place, a people, a society? What is its history?
4. How do we understand the historiography—the history of history writing—of Taiwan? How have various people written about the history of Taiwan in the past?
Key Terms/Figures
Qing Empire (1644-1911); ruled Taiwan 1683-1895
Fujian Province
Opium Wars (1839-1842; 1856-1860); treaty-port system
“Sino-centric” world order
Ryukyu Kingdom (now Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)
Paiwan (group indigenous to southern part of Taiwan)
Gotō Shinpei, head of civilian affairs in Japanese colonial government (Taiwan Government-General) Okamatsu Santarō, legal scholar and head of the Committee for the Investigation of Old Customs