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Archaeologists have shown that Taiwan and the Penghu Islands had contact with the Chinese mainland and other regions at a fairly early date. The goal of this book, however, is to present a critical overview of relevant evidence from ancient written sources (ca. from the Han to the early Ming period), predominantly organized according to chronology. Much evidence remains controversial to this day, in part because of issues with exact place names, but the aggregate implies that Penghu and Taiwan were acknowledged by the mainland societies, above all in Fujian, and they occasionally even played important roles in the political and military calculations of those societies. We can therefore talk about the origins of "globalization" in Asia long before the appearance of the first Europeans in mainland China. Briefly, the topical focus shifts from the mainland to the insular region with the result that Taiwan is placed within the greater maritime context as an island which sits in the exchange zones between the East and South China Seas. This context was very important in the development of traditional sea-routes, especially the so-called "east route" from Fujian by way of Penghu in the direction of Luzon, the region of the Sulu-Zone between the Philippines and Indonesia, and even further south. This work is intended as an introduction suitable for both historians as well as students

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 - 저자 : Roderich Ptak

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2015년 3월 30일