Crossing the Boundary: The Framing of a Qing Political Community in Frontier Taiwan

In: China report: a journal of East Asian studies = Zhong guo shu yi, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 101-118

Abstract

A frontier is created when a community occupies a territory. From then on the frontier is changed and shaped by the activity and growth of the community, or by the impact of it on another community. History being composed of records of growth, it is the changing of frontiers by the social growth of communities that is of primary importance for the historian.1