tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post5043985193844029285..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Japan Focus: Taiwan in the Chinese Imagination, 17-19th CenturyMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-74781767779092831862007-06-22T14:12:00.000+08:002007-06-22T14:12:00.000+08:00I'm glad you posted this. We had to read Emma Ten...I'm glad you posted this. We had to read Emma Teng for a seminar last year. She's part of a new-ish wave of Qing historians (Peter Perdue, James Millward, James Hevia) who are trying to 1) get away from a too simplistic Qing=China interpretation and 2) place the events of the Qing within the context of global colonialism and empire. As Teng and others have argued, the Qing Empire was an expansionist empire, whose territory is now claimed, somewhat uneasily, by the PRC and--at one time--also by the ROC. <BR/><BR/>It is not an accident that those territories brought under Qing control through expansion (Xinjiang, the Tibetan Plateau, Tibet) are the places and people giving the current regime such fits.<BR/><BR/>Did western imperialism have destructive and negative consequences for the Qing and the people of what is today China? Absolutely. But this doesn't mean that the Qing themselves were not also actively engaged in their own imperialist agenda, the effects of which still play an important role in the geopolitics of today. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for posting this.Jeremiah Jennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16004730563251915583noreply@blogger.com