The present paper,delving into competitive discourses on the issue of sovereignty in relation to Japan's ag-gression against Taiwan,holds that Qing's negotiation,which was against Japan's allegation that China's sovereignty should not be applied to the land of minorities(such as Taiwan)according to arbitrarily se-lected European international law and justified China's management of such land in light of local customs,was a derivative of European discourse on mutual recognition of sovereignty respecting dependent territory and revealed gradual changes leading to the identity of modern Chinese nation-state.
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