30 Volumes
In 1683, Qing admiral Shi Lang defeated the remnants of the Zheng dynasty at the Battle of Penghu, b...
In the late seventeenth century along the Fujian and Guangdong coast, deciding whether to cross to T...
By the final years of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, the Qing court was confronting an awkward truth: m...
The Han Chinese settlement of Taiwan's western plains proceeded roughly from south to north, and the...
The broad Changhua plain had deep, rich soil that should by rights have yielded abundant harvests, y...
The Taipei Basin had rich soil, but for most of the Qing era it could not realize its agricultural p...
In the early eighteenth century, southern Taiwan was a land filled with violence, resentment, and de...
Before the tide of Han migration swept across central Taiwan, this fertile plain was already the hom...
The expansion of Han Chinese settlement across Taiwan's plains during the Qing era operated through ...
Qing-era Taiwan earned a reputation as one of the empire's most turbulent frontiers. The folk saying...
In mid-eighteenth-century central Taiwan, the migrants who had braved the deadly Black Ditch crossin...
Beyond the mountains of Taiwan's northeast lay a fertile expanse cradled between the Snow Mountains ...
The Kavalan plain — known in the Qing records as Jiazinanlai, today as Yilan — lay on the other side...
While the Luohanjiao on land battled the Qing with broadswords and blood, the Black Ditch — the stra...
The Fengshan plain south of present-day Kaohsiung had been under continuous Han Chinese cultivation ...
In mid-Qing Taiwan, whether walking the winding alleys of Tainan prefecture or the dusty plains of Z...
In mid-eighteenth-century Taiwan, as the gunpowder smoke of rebellions and ancestral feuds slowly se...
Among the cultural achievements of Qing-era Taiwan, the literary tradition that flourished in Zhudia...
For much of the Qing era, Taiwan was a young society of migrants from every quarter packed in togeth...
Following the Second Opium War, the Treaty of Tianjin (1858) and the Convention of Peking (1860) com...
The opening of Taiwan to foreign residence following the Treaty of Tientsin in 1858 coincided with t...
On a summer day in 1865, James Laidlaw Maxwell — known in Taiwan as Ma Yage — stepped ashore at the ...
In the early spring of 1867, the monsoon winds and ocean currents of the Pacific converged upon the ...
Throughout the Qing period, the relationship between Han settlers and Taiwan's indigenous peoples wa...
The encounter between Taiwan's indigenous peoples and Qing Chinese expansion did not have a single f...
The Mudan Incident of 1874 — in which Japanese forces landed in southern Taiwan on the pretext of pu...
In 1884 a war fought far away over suzerainty and control of Vietnam suddenly washed up on Taiwan's ...
In 1885, in the wake of the Sino-French War — during which French forces blockaded and bombarded Kee...
The final two decades of Qing rule in Taiwan — the period between the inauguration of Liu Mingchuan'...
At the close of the nineteenth century, the Qing Empire stood in the bleak autumn of its decline. Ye...
