Internalizing Outside the Boundary

After the Qing Empire had opened routes into the mountains, prefectures and counties were added to the area of the north and beyond the mountains. Taiwan in Maps was drawn up to record the situation "outside of the boundary" as a foundation for controlling the indigenous peoples and exploiting the resources of Taiwan's mountains and forests. At the same time, a major official who had come to Taiwan, Shen Baozhen, issued Proverbs for the Instruction of Peripherals, and Ding Richang collated 21 Bylaws on Pacifying Peripherals and Cultivating the Mountains, forcing indigenous peoples to adopt the Manchurian hairstyle and to change their clothing and customs, thereby attempting to ideologically acculturate and "civilize" Taiwanese indigenous peoples. And when Liu Mingchuan expanded the policy of pacification by force, it accelerated the intrusion into the mountains even more quickly.

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  Copy of a palace memorial on requesting the emperor to stationed a governor to be specifically responsible for Taiwan

  • Presentd by Shen Baozhen(1820-1879), Supervisor of Coastal Defence in Taiwan and the General Management of Affairs Concerning the Various Countries, Pan Wei (1826-1894), Fujian Provincial Administration Commissioners and Assist Management of Taiwan Affairs
  • 11th day of the 12th month of the 13th year of the Tongzhi reign (January 18, 1875), Qing dynasty
  • From the Grand Council's Monthly Memorial Dossiers, vol. 1 for the 12th month of the 13th year of the Tongzhi reign (January-February,1875), Qing dynasty.

  The barbarian pacification strategy included the selection of chiefs, checking the barbarian households, restricting what barbarians could do in terms of work, opening languages, banning vendettas, teaching them how to grow crops, teaching them Taoism, providing them with tea and salt, changing their clothing, schooling barbarians, and changing their customs.

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  Copy of a palace memorial on requesting order to dispatch Lin Weiyuan to Taiwan to assist in reclamation matters

  • 21th day of the 12th month of the 14th year of the Guangxu reign (January 22, 1889), Qing dynasty
  • From the Grand Council's Monthly Memorial Dossiers, the 12th month of the 14th year of the Guangxu reign (January, 1889), Qing dynasty

  Lin Wei-yuan was ordered to help Taipei with the pioneering matter, and he pioneered over 60 thousand acres of wilderness.