The Diaoyu DAO Islands

The Diaoyu 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 IslandsIncludes information from both textual materials and maps that date from the 15th to the 20th century from China, Japan, Ryukyu and EuropePresents professional knowledge and research methods from a wide range of disciplines, such as history and international lawProvides a large number of valuable maps in the author's personal collection that are presented for the first time in English, with concomitant analysis