The Diaoyu Dao Islands

The Diaoyu Dao Islands: A Historical and Legal Study from a Chinese Perspective examines the issue of the Islands in the context of Chinese and Western maritime history, including knowledge and research methods from a wide variety of fields, including linguistics, geography, textual criticism of historical sources, tectonics and the principles of international law that are applied for a holistic and in-depth analysis. In particular, the rigorous analysis of a large number of historical maps is especially valuable as a supplement to the textual sources examined.

• Examines a large number of primary sources relating to the Islands
• Includes information from both textual materials and maps that date from the 15th to the 20th century from China, Japan, Ryukyu and Europe
• Presents professional knowledge and research methods from a wide range of disciplines, such as history and international law
• Provides a large number of valuable maps in the author's personal collection that are presented for the first time in English, with concomitant analysis