Is Aboriginal Formosa A Part Of The Chinese Empire?

Piece from 1874 showing how aboriginal Formosa existed outside the Chinese Empire.
Printed by Loureiro & Co., 39 Kiangsi Road, Shanghai.
Photographs by William Saunders
With 8 maps of Formosa
In the Hui Pao, of the 18th of July last, appeared a violent diatribe against the late action of Japan in Formosa.
This paper, a translation of which we give hereunder, being very apt to mislead the public mind, both native and foreign, it has been thought necessary to present a dispassionate statement of the Formosan question.