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Author Chiu, Hsin-hui

Title The colonial 'civilizing process' in Dutch Formosa, 1624-1662 / by Chiu Hsin-hui
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 346 pages) : maps
Series TANAP monographs on the history of Asian-European interaction, 1871-6938 ; v. 10
TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction ; v. 10.
Contents Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on spelling; Glossary; Maps; PART ONE SCOPE AND SCENE; Chapter One: Cross-cultural Encounters, Colonial 'Civilizing Process', and Indigenous Agency; Chapter Two: Glimpses of 'Aboriginal Taiwan'; PART TWO EXPANSION AND ENCOUNTER; Chapter Three: From Strangers to Overlords; Chapter Four: Depopulation and Diaspora; Chapter Five: Expansion for Commodities; Chapter Six: Conquest, Contest, and Connection; PART THREE EMPOWERMENT AND ENTANGLEMENT; Chapter Seven: Embodiment of Power; Chapter Eight: Devouring Prosperity
Summary Studies the encounter between Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples (the Formosans), the Dutch VOC and Chinese settlers between 1624 and 1662. This work shows how Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples shaped their own colonial reality while retreating from 'the Age of Aboriginal Taiwan'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-331) and index
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SUBJECT Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie gnd
Subject HISTORY.
Colonization
Nederlanders.
Koloniale politiek.
Ostindische Compagnie -- niederländische -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
Kulturkontakt -- Naturvölker -- Europäer -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
Naturvölker -- Kulturkontakt -- Europäer -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
Naturvölker -- Taiwan -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
SUBJECT Taiwan -- History -- Dutch rule, 1624-1661. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002005576
Taiwan -- Colonization
Subject Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan.
Taiwan -- Ethnologie.
Chinesen -- Taiwan -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
Taiwan -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047442974
9047442970