Preface to the Expanded Edition
1. The Shaping of Taiwan’s Landscapes
2. The Politics of Taiwan Aboriginal Origins
3. Up the Mountains and Out to the Sea
4. The Seventeenth-Century Transformation
5. The Island Frontier of the Ch’ing, 1684–1780
6. From Landlords to Local Strongmen
7. From Treaty Ports to Provincial Status, 1860–1894
8. Taiwan Under Japanese Rule, 1895–1945
9. Taiwanese New Literature and the Colonial Context
10. Between Assimilation and Independence
11. A Bastion Created, A Regime Reformed, An Economy Reengineered, 1949–1970
12. Identity and Social Change in Taiwanese Religion
13. Taiwan’s Socioeconomic Modernization, 1971–1996
14. Literature in Post-1949 Taiwan, 1950 to 1980s
15. Aboriginal Self-Government
16. Political Taiwanization and Pragmatic Diplomacy
17. Taiwan Enters Troubled Waters