China’s Island Frontier: Geographical Ideas on the Continent-based Nationalist Narratives on Taiwan

This paper explores how nationalist narratives from Taiwan grappled with incorporating their ‘island frontier’ into conceptions of a Chinese unitary state. In the post World War II era, after the Chinese Nationalist government-in-exile re-established itself on the island of Taiwan, US-dominated scho...

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Main Author: Peter Kang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Island Studies Journal 2011-04-01
Series:Island Studies Journal
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.250