Statecraft and political economy on the Taiwan frontier, 1600-1800

The political economy of the Taiwan frontier

The plains aborigines and the earliest stages of Chinese penetration. Aboriginal Taiwan in the early seventeenth century ; The Dutch Era, 1624-1661 ; The Cheng Era, 1661-1683 ; Taxation and administration of the aborigines in the Early Ch'ing

Ch'ing quarantine policies and the spread of Han settlement. Immigration and Han settlement ; Ch'ing administration of the Han ; The fiscal administration of Taiwan

Accommodation through the frontier land-tenure system. The evolution of aborigine land rights ; Han command strife and aborigine military colonies ; The transformation of plains aborigine cultures ; Frontier management, land tenure, and the late imperial state

Appendixes. Village sites of the plains aborigines ; Tax quotas of the plains tribes ; Measures of land and grain ; Measures of governmental presence in eighteenth century China ; Territorial organization of the aborigine military colonies ; Indians and settlers in North America