Original sentence: Despite Taiwan being rumored as the fabled "Island of Dogs," "Island of Women," or any of the other fabled island thought, by Han literati, to lie beyond the seas, Taiwan was officially regarded by Qing Emperor Kangxi as "a ball of mud beyond the pale of civilization" and did not appear on any map of the imperial domain until 1683.It took several more years before the Qing court would recognize Taiwan as part of the Qing realm.Prior to the Qing Dynasty, the Middle Kingdom was conceived as a land bound by mountains, rivers and seas.Supporters of Taiwan Independence do not regard these claims as valid.The "suspicious history" of Taiwan is often cited by Chinese nationalists to support their claim that "Taiwan has belonged to China since antiquity".The act of presenting a map to the emperor was equal to presenting the lands of the empire.The idea of an island as a part of the Middle Kingdom was unfathomable to the Han prior to the Qing frontier expansion effort of the 17th Century.The presence of the Great Wall demonstrates some earlier concepts of "China's" borders in relation to the PRC's current holdings and claims