Peter B Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 6434085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter B Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG P B |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Dong Hwa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4270-7325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Naming and Re-naming on Formosa
The influence of the Kuroshio Current on place naming on Green Island, Taiwan
Green Island off the southeast coast of Taiwan is located along the Kuroshio Current in the western Pacific Ocean. Before the end of Second World War, a variety of place names for Green Island in different languages implied a connection to the Kuroshio Current. These names include exonyms such as Sanasana, Tabaco Migel, He-sio-t, and Bonfire, which refer to maritime migration from southern ancestral homelands, the Catholic traffic between Japan a…
Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia
It has been forty-one years since Croizier published his milestone research on Koxinga or Zheng Chenggong.1 The name Koxinga never fails to catch the attention of maritime historians of East Asia. The military leader built a name for himself among his European contemporaries as a ruthless pirate who ousted the Dutch East India Company, or the voc, from the island of Formosa (present-day Taiwan)—the first Dutch overseas “territorial republic” (van…
China’s Island Frontier
This paper explores how nationalist narratives from Taiwan grappled with incorporating their ‘island frontier’ into conceptions of a Chinese unitary state. In the post World War II era, after the Chinese Nationalist government-in-exile re-established itself on the island of Taiwan, US-dominated scholarship strategically framed Taiwan as a convenient substitute for the study of China. This framing went hand in hand with the re-sinicization project…
The influence of the Kuroshio Current on place naming on Green Island, Taiwan
Green Island off the southeast coast of Taiwan is located along the Kuroshio Current in the western Pacific Ocean. Before the end of Second World War, a variety of place names for Green Island in different languages implied a connection to the Kuroshio Current. These names include exonyms such as Sanasana, Tabaco Migel, He-sio-t, and Bonfire, which refer to maritime migration from southern ancestral homelands, the Catholic traffic between Japan a…
China’s Island Frontier
This paper explores how nationalist narratives from Taiwan grappled with incorporating their ‘island frontier’ into conceptions of a Chinese unitary state. In the post World War II era, after the Chinese Nationalist government-in-exile re-established itself on the island of Taiwan, US-dominated scholarship strategically framed Taiwan as a convenient substitute for the study of China. This framing went hand in hand with the re-sinicization project…
China’s Island Frontier
This paper explores how nationalist narratives from Taiwan grappled with incorporating their ‘island frontier’ into conceptions of a Chinese unitary state. In the post World War II era, after the Chinese Nationalist government-in-exile re-established itself on the island of Taiwan, US-dominated scholarship strategically framed Taiwan as a convenient substitute for the study of China. This framing went hand in hand with the re-sinicization project…
The influence of the Kuroshio Current on place naming on Green Island, Taiwan
Green Island off the southeast coast of Taiwan is located along the Kuroshio Current in the western Pacific Ocean. Before the end of Second World War, a variety of place names for Green Island in different languages implied a connection to the Kuroshio Current. These names include exonyms such as Sanasana, Tabaco Migel, He-sio-t, and Bonfire, which refer to maritime migration from southern ancestral homelands, the Catholic traffic between Japan a…
Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia
It has been forty-one years since Croizier published his milestone research on Koxinga or Zheng Chenggong.1 The name Koxinga never fails to catch the attention of maritime historians of East Asia. The military leader built a name for himself among his European contemporaries as a ruthless pirate who ousted the Dutch East India Company, or the voc, from the island of Formosa (present-day Taiwan)—the first Dutch overseas “territorial republic” (van…
Naming and Re-naming on Formosa
Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · China (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Nationalism (2 works)