She is the author of Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing, 1683–1895, from which the present text is drawn. She is currently working on Chinese and Chinese American representations of Eurasian interracialism at the turn of the 20th century. Her publications on this subject include “Eurasian Hybridity in Chinese Utopian Visions: From ‘One World’ to a ‘Society Based on Beauty’ and Beyond,” positions: east asia cultures critique (Volume 14.1, Spring 2006). Posted at Japan Focus on June 14, 2007.