ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores pre-modern local space in the context of a frontier settlement. It explains how the attitudes towards the island, its inhabitants, and place of origin would lead to the subsequent formation of factions is vital to understanding how the narrative of the petition is closely married to the formation of an urban class in Taiwan. Arriving after the signing of treaties at the end of the opium wars the foreign community idealized space with concepts of domesticity within designated extraterritorial zones. The book discusses the integration of the foreign space with local space to form a community representative of an urban modern space. By understanding interconnected community as separate it has been possible to view notions of resistance, capitulation, and occupation differently.
