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Author : Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317459071
This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work is designed in the style of the multi-volume "Cambridge History of China".
Author : Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317459088
This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work is designed in the style of the multi-volume "Cambridge History of China".
Author : Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0765614944
This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work is designed in the style of the multi-volume ""Cambridge History of China""
Author : Wan-yao Chou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Taiwan
ISBN : 9576387841
Author : Denny Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 080144070X
For centuries, various great powers have both exploited and benefited Taiwan, shaping its multiple and frequently contradictory identities. Offering a narrative of the island's political history, the author contends that it is best understood as a continuous struggle for security.
Author : Jonathan Manthorpe
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250126412
For over 400 years, Taiwan has suffered at the hands of multiple colonial powers, but it has now entered the decade when its independence will be won or lost. At the heart of Taiwan's story is the curse of geography that placed the island on the strategic cusp between the Far East and Southeast Asia and made it the guardian of some of the world's most lucrative trade routes. It is the story of the dogged determination of a courageous people to overcome every obstacle thrown in their path. Forbidden Nation tells the dramatic story of the island, its people, and what brought them to this moment when their future will be decided.
Author : Chien-chao Hung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Taiwan
ISBN : 9868663733
Author : Shih-Shan Henry Tsai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317465171
For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers from around the world. Unlike China, with its long tradition of keeping foreigners out, Taiwan has a long history of interaction, both hostile and friendly, with other seafaring nations near and far. "Maritime Taiwan" captures the full drama and details of this remarkable history. It's filled with fascinating stories of foreign adventurers and echoes the bitter songs of Taiwan's aboriginal population, confronted by the convergence of different maritime cultures and values on the island.Here are accounts of the legendary pirate Koxinga, the Chinese junk trade, the mighty Dutch East India Company, British opium traders and Scottish tea merchants, Jesuit priests and Presbyterian missionaries, A French fleet commander, a Japanese colonial administrator, an American aid official, and many more. Here too is an extraordinary view of Taiwan over the centuries, as its distinct identity, culture, and values were shaped by its unique history. Today, with a population of only 23 million, Taiwan is the world's nineteenth largest economy, a vibrant, relatively free society on the strategic route between China and Southeast Asia. Maritime Taiwan also discusses the significant impact of American military, economic, educational, and technological aid on Taiwan's developments and addresses the island's continued importance in maintaining the U.S. hegemony in East Asia.
Author : Kerry Brown,Kalley Wu Tzu Hui
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786995247
‘Fresh and authoritative, written with brio and precision.’ Thomas Plate, author of Yo-Yo Diplomacy ‘An important and timely guide to one of the most dangerous potential flashpoints for future conflict between the West and China.’James Griffiths, author of The Great Firewall of China ‘Brown and Wu Tzu-hui help situate a Taiwan whose “place” in the world is otherwise plagued by uncertainty.’ Benjamin Zawacki, author of Thailand
Author : Gary M. Davison
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275981310
This concise account of Taiwan's history makes a cogent, compelling argument for the right of the Taiwanese people to declare their nation independent, if they so choose. Davison's bold stand—unprecedented from a Western author—challenges the one China notion advanced in the Shanghai Communique of 1972 and states unequivocally that, should independence be proclaimed, it could only be taken away by force if the international community sides with contemporary might over historical right. He argues that the possible conflict could be sufficiently incendiary to induce a major military clash between the United States, the People's Republic of China, and other major powers. Davison lets the facts of Taiwanese history make the case for Taiwan's existence as a unique national entity. A historical overview details the circumstances under which the Qing dynasty made its 17th century claim on the island, the events that led to cession to Japan in 1895, the origins of the Guomindang occupation during the Chinese Civil War, and the dramatic election of March 2000 that brought the Democratic Progressive Party's Chen Shuibian to office, ending Guomindang domination. After centuries of outsider domination, and over a hundred years of disconnection from any government exercising power over all of mainland China, the Taiwanese people are in a position to make a decision for national independence based on solid historical evidence.
Author : Andrew D. Morris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9780520262799
"Morris successfully weaves the intricacies of baseball's history into a compelling narrative while giving us a keen analysis of its larger significance. It is rare to find someone who can pull that off. This is an absorbing and distinguished addition to sports history, to Taiwanese history, and to studies of colonialism and its aftermath."--William Kelly, Yale University "Colonial Project, National Game offers an engaging and penetrating analysis of the culture of baseball in Taiwan, in both its local and global conditions. Morris weaves details into a compelling narrative that is as much about the game on the field as the game being played out in the arenas of ethnicity, nationalism and geopolitics. Morris's study is a model of sophistication and lucidity. He demonstrates that through a perceptive reading of the mundane world of curve balls and player contracts, we can better understand the ideological substructure of the social."--Joseph R. Allen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Author : Chow, Peter C.Y.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800880160
Most colonies became independent countries after the end of World War II, while few of them became modernized even after decades of their independence. Taiwan is one of the few to become a modern state with remarkable achievements in its economic, socio-cultural, and political development. This book addresses the path and trajectory of the emergence of Taiwan from a colony to a modern state in the past century.
Author : Captivating History
Publisher : Ch Publications
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1647480280
The history of Taiwan is astonishing. Politically, Taiwan- was a warlord culture. The Portuguese, when passing by the island in the mid-1540s, called the island "Ilha Formosa," which means "Beautiful Island." Then the Dutch came in the 1620s, searching for a base of operations for the Dutch East India Company.
Author : Steven E. Phillips
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0804744572
Taiwan's relationship with mainland China is one of the most fraught in East Asia, a key issue in the island's domestic politics, and a major obstacle in Sino-American relations. Between Assimilation and Independence explores the roots of this conflict in the immediate postwar period, when the Nationalist government led by Jiang Jieshi took control of the island after fifty years of Japanese rule. It is the first in-depth examination of how the Nationalists consolidated their rule over Taiwan even as they collapsed on the mainland. During the 1945-50 period, the Taiwanese experienced disappointment with Nationalist misrule; struggles over decolonization and the Japanese legacy; a violent uprising and brutal government response; and the chaos surrounding Jiang Jieshi's retreat with his mainlander-dominated authoritarian regime. This book, based on archival materials newly available in Taiwan and the United States, shows how the Taiwanese sought to place the island between independence--becoming a sovereign nation--and assimilation into China as a province.
Author : Hsiao-ting Lin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674969629
Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state, thereby creating the Two Chinas dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day. Hsiao-ting Lin challenges this conventional narrative, showing the many ways the ad hoc creation of this not fully sovereign state was accidental and serendipitous.