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	EH.Net Encyclopedia: The Economic History of Taiwan
		Under the rule of Koxinga and his heirs (1661-1683), Chinese settlement continued to spread in southern Taiwan.
		Taiwan's exports changed little, but the Tainan harbor lost importance as a center of international trade, as much of this trade now passed through Xiamen (Amoy), a port across the strait in Fujian that was also under the control of Koxinga and his heirs.
		Taiwan's postwar industrialization is usually attributed to (1) the decline in land per capita, (2) the change in export markets and (3) government policy.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/olds.taiwan.economic.history (2523 words)

	Taiwan under Dutch rule - Definition, explanation
		Dutch traders, in search of an Asian base first claimed the island in 1624 as a base for Dutch commerce with Japan and the Chinese coast.
		The Dutch originally sought to use their castle Fort Zeelandia at Tayowan as a trading base between Japan and China, but soon realized the potential of the huge deer populations that roamed in herds of thousands along the alluvial plains of Taiwan's western regions.
		In 1661, a naval fleet led by the Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong (Cheng Ch'eng-kung in Wade-Giles, known in the West as Koxinga), arrived in Taiwan to oust the Dutch from Zeelandia.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/ta/taiwan_under_dutch_rule.php (602 words)

	Chinese Business Site - Taiwan's History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Dutch built their settlement at Fort Orange in Taiwan, which was later to become known as Fort Zeelandia (or Anping in Chinese), located in the present city of Tainan in southern Taiwan.
		Dutch control in Taiwan was now almost complete, but continuous rebellions by local Chinese proved later on to be the seeds of the eventual destruction Dutch rule there.
		Chinese resentment to Dutch rule led to two particularly serious rebellions in 1640 and 1652, both of which were crushed with great force with the help of the indigenous aboriginal population, who were treated far better than the Chinese migrants.
	www.china-biz.org /Taiwan_Pages/Taiwan_History_2.htm (1175 words)

	History of Taiwan
		Significant migration to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland began as early as A.D. Dutch traders first claimed the island in 1624 as a base for Dutch commerce with Japan and the China coast.
		Dutch colonists administered the island and its predominantly aboriginal population until 1661.
		The first major influx of migrants from the Chinese mainland came during the Dutch period, sparked by the political and economic chaos on the China coast during the Manchu invasion and the end of the Ming Dynasty.
	www.historyofnations.net /asia/taiwan.html (954 words)

	Taiwan Tours \| Taiwan Tour Guide \| iExplore.com
		Taiwan might have been known as one of the ‘tiger’ economies of Asia, but few people, until recently at least, thought of this small island off the southeast coast of China as a potential tourist destination.
		Taiwan certainly has plenty to offer, from truly unique scenery to exciting sporting activities and colorful festivals, not to mention the most varied Chinese food on earth (Taipei is a gourmet’s paradise, boasting cuisine from every region of China).
		Taiwan (China) is the main island of a group of 86 islands.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Taiwan/Overview (605 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Taiwan
		Han Chinese began settling in the Pescadores in the 1200s, but Taiwan's hostile tribes and its lack of the trade resources valued in that era rendered it unattractive to all but "occasional adventurers or fishermen engaging in barter"?title=until the sixteenth century.
		Migrants mostly of Southern Fujian continued to enter Taiwan as renters of the large plots of aboriginal lands under contracts that usually involved marriage, while the border between taxpaying lands and "savage"?title=lands shifted eastward, with some aborigines 'Sinicizing' while others retreated into the mountains.
		The ensuing military occupation of Taiwan was however conducted on behalf of the "conqueror"?title=and "principal occupying power,"?title=which was/is the United States.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Taiwan (5538 words)

	Taiwan History. Taiwan Under the Dutch.
		The Dutch built their settlement at Fort Orange in Taiwan, which was later to become known as Fort Zeelandia (or Anping in Chinese), located in the present city of Tainan in southern Taiwan.
		The Dutch were very pleased with this compromise agreement, and not to be satisfied with just a trading post, they soon converted Taiwan into a full-blown colony similar to their empire in the Dutch East Indies.
		Chinese resentment to Dutch rule led to two particularly serious rebellions in 1640 and 1652, both of which were crushed with great force with the help of the indigenous aboriginal population, who were treated far better than the Chinese migrants.
	www.geocities.com /apapadimos/Taiwan_Pages/Taiwan_History_2.htm (1191 words)

	Taiwan (04/07)
		Although Taiwan enjoyed sustained economic growth, full employment, and low inflation for many years, in 2001, the combination of the slowing global economy, weaknesses in parts of the financial sector, and sagging consumer and business confidence in the government's economic policymaking resulted in the first recession since 1952.
		Taiwan is the United States' ninth-largest trading partner; Taiwan's two-way trade with the United States amounted to $57 billion in 2005 and rose 7.6% to $62 billion in 2006.
		Taiwan's armed forces were reduced as part of a reform initiative from 1997 to 2001, going from about 450,000 to 385,000, with further reductions since then bringing the total force level down to just under 300,000.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35855.htm (6869 words)

	A short history of Taiwan (Republic of China)
		Taiwan's aboriginal peoples, who originated in Austronesia and southern China, live on Taiwan for 12,000 to 15,000 years.
		Significant migration to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland began as early as 500.
		Chiang Kai-shek dies in 1975 and is succceeded by Yen Chia-kan in 1975 and Chiang Ching-kuo in 1978.
	www.electionworld.org /history/taiwan.htm (373 words)

	Dutch East India Company Summary
		Dutch colonial possessions, with the Dutch East India Company possessions marked in a paler green, surrounding the Indian Ocean plus Saint Helena in the mid-Atlantic.
		The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company") was established on March 20, 1602, when the Estates-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia.
		Under the first 358 share holders, were many small entrepreneurs, who dared to take the risk.
	www.bookrags.com /Dutch_East_India_Company (1974 words)

	Milestones in Taiwan's history
		In 1662 Dutch were defeated by a Chinese pirate, Cheng Cheng-kung (Koxinga), a loyalist of the old Ming dynasty, who himself was on the run from the newly established Ching dynasty.
		It wasn't until 1887, that the Manchu Imperial authorities decided to declare Taiwan to be a "province" of their Empire: they wanted to outmaneuver the Japanese, who were expanding their influence to the South.
		However, it wasn't until 1991 that the KMT claim to rule all of China was dropped, and that aging Nationalist Chinese legislators -- elected on the mainland in 1947 -- were sent into retirement.
	www.taiwandc.org /hst-1624.htm (1932 words)

	FSM: History of Formosa in a Nutshell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Dutch then drove the Spaniards off and put the entire island of Taiwan under their rule, with Batavia (in Java, Indonesia today) as the headquarters of their military and commercial operations in the Far East.
		Under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the outlying, 'savage' island of Taiwan was ceded to Japan in perpetuity by the Manchus as part of the postwar settlement package.
		As a result, Taiwan was occupied and ruled by a Chinese military government on behalf of the Allies after WWII even though Taiwan in fact had been liberated by American forces in the Pacific Theater of War.
	hometown.aol.com /xpus/FSM-Hist.html (1839 words)

	History of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was colonised by the Dutch in the 17th century, followed by an influx of Han Chinese immigrants from areas of Fujian and Guangdong of China, across the Taiwan Strait.
		The KMT ruled Taiwan as a single-party state for forty years, until democratic reforms came were mandated during the final year of authoritarian rule under Chiang Ching-kuo.
		Today's Taiwan's aboriginal peoples are classified as belonging to the Austronesian ethno-linguistic group of people, a linguistic group that stretches as far west as Madagascar, to Easter Island and even as far as Chile in the east and to New Zealand in the south with Taiwan as the northern most point.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Taiwan (7084 words)

	Taiwan travel guide - Wikitravel
		Taiwan [1], whose official name is the Republic of China (ROC), is an island of about 36,000 square kilometers located off the coast of southeastern China, southwest of Okinawa and north of the Philippines.
		Taiwan's second largest city, Kaohsiung, and oldest city, Tainan, are located in the south of the island.
		Taiwan's new high speed rail system similar to the Shinkansen in Japan is currently under construction with completion scheduled for early 2007.
	wikitravel.org /en/Taiwan (9286 words)

	Introduction to Taiwan-History
		The Dutch landed on the island in the south in 1624 and the Spanish in the north in 1626, but the Dutch drove them out in 1642.
		Taiwan came under the rule of the Qing Empire in 1683, and was ceded to Japan after its defeat in the 1894-95 Sino-Japanese War.
		In consequence, Taiwan was subjected to Japanese colonial rule for 50 years, but was returned to the Republic of China in 1945, after Japanâs defeat in the Second World War.
	www.sinica.edu.tw /~hro/IS/taiwan.shtml (405 words)

	Taiwanese aborigines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwan's Austronesian speakers were formerly distributed over much of the island's rugged central mountain range and were concentrated in villages along the alluvial plains.
		Although the Republic of China on Taiwan was a UN member and signatory to the original UN Charter, four decades of martial law controlled the discourse of culture and politics on Taiwan.
		Pirates, Pelts, and Promises: The Sino-Dutch Colony of Seventeenth-Century Taiwan and the Aboriginal Village of Favorolang.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taiwanese_aborigine (10358 words)

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		Taiwan's total area is 35,981 square kilometers: 394 km in length and 144 km in width.
		Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, its neighbors are China to the west, the Philippines to the south, and Japan to the north.
		Taiwan's government does not recognize the ethnic status of the tribes and our historical position in Taiwan; it has deprived our traditional right to the land and our traditional sovereignty.
	www.cwis.org /fwdp/Eurasia/taiwan.txt (2849 words)

	Taiwan under Dutch rule Information
		The Dutch originally sought to use their castle Fort Zeelandia at Tayowan (Anping) as a trading base between Japan and China, but soon realized the potential of the huge deer populations that roamed in herds of thousands along the alluvial plains of Taiwan's western regions.
		In 1661, a naval fleet of 1000 warships led by the Ming loyalist and pirate Zheng Chenggong (Cheng Ch'eng-kung in Wade-Giles, known in the West as Lord Koxinga), arrived in Taiwan to destroy and oust the Dutch from Zeelandia.
		Lord Koxinga then forced the Dutch Government to sign a peace treaty at Castle Zeelandia on 1 February 1662, and leave Taiwan.
	www.bookrags.com /Taiwan_under_Dutch_rule (724 words)

	Dutch East India Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in old-spelling Dutch, literally "United East Indian Company") was established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia.
		Under the 1,143 tenderers were 39 Germans and no less than 301 Zuid-Nederlanders (roughly present Belgium and Luxemburg, then under Habsburg rule), of whom Isaäc le Maire was the largest subscriber with ƒ85,000.
		In 1600, the Dutch joined forces with the local Hituese (near Ambon) in an anti-Portuguese alliance, in return for which the Dutch were given the sole right to purchase spices from Hitu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company (2400 words)

	Kingdom of Tungning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Koxinga was son of a former pirate who styled himself as a Ming Dynasty loyalist; he hoped to marshal his troops on Taiwan and use it as a base to regain mainland China for the Ming Dynasty.
		Under Qing pressure, Zheng Jing struggled to defend Xiamen, Quemoy and the Pescadores islands, which he had eventually lost over the years, mainly due to his minuscule forces which were insufficient to defend from the Qing.
		The PRC has generally focused on the fact that Koxinga liberated Taiwan from Dutch colonialism for the sake of the fatherland, while de-emphasizing the fact that Koxinga was in fact devoted to overthrowing the mainland government at the time to restore a previous dynasty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Tungning (743 words)

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