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Title: Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895.(Book review)
Author: Murray A. Rubinstein
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 67Issue: 4Page: 784(2)

Article Type: Book review

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