Casting about for my next reading project

The fall semester is going to start soon, so I'm busy preparing my three classes (two sections of first-year writing for multilingual students and one section of business writing for multilingual students), but I'm also interested in getting into another book. I finally (FINALLY!) finished John Robert Shepherd's Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800, which I see I mentioned starting in June of 2021(!). 

As you can imagine, I've forgotten a lot of the details in the book (of which there are many). As I wrote in a text back in May to someone more well-read in Taiwan history than I am, "My main takeaway so far is that it doesn't seem at all that the Qing were ignoring Taiwan the way the popular imagination seems to have it. (Not to say that their governing was super effective.)" That's still my main conclusion--obviously the Qing didn't control most of Taiwan; Paul Barclay's book Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874–1945 explains Qing rule in terms of "multicentric legal pluralism" (p. 17), where "heterogeneous communities and ranked status groups stood in differentiated legal relationships to the apical center of authority in Beijing. Implicit in the notion of multicentric legal pluralism is the possibility that sovereignty can be graded, and even diminished, at the margins of a polity" (p. 17). This accounts for the Qing's initial response to, for instance, Japanese protests in the aftermath of the Mudan village incident of 1871 in which Paiwanese villagers killed 54 Okinawan survivors of a shipwreck in southern Taiwan. But, getting back to Shepherd, I think his book shows that the Qing did not "neglect" the parts of Taiwan over which they ruled. 

Shepherd's book is almost 30 years old, though, so I would like to read something more recent that might supplement my knowledge. I started to read Barclay's book a while back, so that's one possibility, though its focus is mostly on the Japanese period. University of Washington professor James Lin also asks students in his graduate survey of Taiwan studies to read Tonio Andrade's How Taiwan Became Chinese, though that seems to end with the fall of the Dutch colony. I could reread Emma Teng's Taiwan's Imagined Geography, though I think I'd rather spend my time reading something new. Any recommendations?

[Update, Aug. 19: I ended up choosing Lien Heng (1978-1936): Taiwan's Search for Identity and Tradition, by Shu-hui Wu (mainly because it was within reach...). So far it's interesting reading, though there are a couple of details that have puzzled me. Maybe I'll write more about that when I finish the book.]