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 History :: Society and Culture : RSS Feeds : Gourt
When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of humans, families, and societies.
Knowledge of history is often said to encompass both knowledge of past events and historical thinking skills.
However, in modern academia, history is increasingly classified as a social science, especially when chronology is the focus.
www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Fregional.gourt.com%2FAsia%2FTaiwan%2FSociety-and-Culture%2FHistory.html   (989 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Timeline of Taiwanese history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Taiwanese investors lost their claim to the Japanese bond certificates they possessed and much of the property remains in KMT party hands and has yet to be returned to the public.
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a turbulent time for Taiwanese as many of the people who had originally been oppressed and impoverished by the KMT occupation became members of the Taiwan's new middle class.
This was followed by the "White Terror" in which many thousands of Taiwanese were imprisoned or executed for their real or perceived opposition to the Kuomintang military regime, leaving many native Taiwanese with a deep-seated bitterness to the mainlanders.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Timeline-of-Taiwanese-history   (301 words)

  
 List of themed timelines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timeline is a 2003 film based on the novel.
Timeline of quantum mechanics, molecular physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics
Timelines of History: a collection of timelines by time, country, today in history along with assorted subjects
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline   (415 words)

  
 Timeline of Taiwanese history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1915: Tapani Incident, largest revolt in Taiwanese history; over 10,000 protesters killed by Japanese authorities.
Protests against the PRC were held worldwide, including, but not limited to: Chicago, New York City, Washington DC, Paris, and Sydney.
He is the first Taiwanese president to visit the Vatican.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_Taiwanese_history   (1216 words)

  
 Articles - Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Taiwanese aborigines each also have distinct cultures which are thought to share the common ethnic origins with the Pacific Islanders.
Taiwanese culture also has influenced the West: Bubble tea and milk tea are popular drinks readily available around city centers in Europe, Canada and the United States.
The Taiwanese localization movement continues to be a major driver of Taiwanese culture, as a reaction against both the previous repression by the previously Kuomintang-controlled government and the hostility of the PRC.
www.worldhammock.com /articles/Taiwan   (4244 words)

  
 China, Republic of (Taiwan)
Taiwanese culture has also influenced the west: bubble tea is a popular drink readily available around the city centers or downtown areas in both Europe and in Canada and the United States.
The Taiwanese localization movement continues to be a major driver of Taiwanese culture, both as a reaction against the previous repression of Taiwanese culture by the previously Kuomintang controlled government and against the hostility of the PRC.
A majority of the Taiwanese population are religious believers, most of whom identify themselves as Buddhists or Taoists.
creekin.net /n41-china-republic-of-taiwan-.html   (3083 words)

  
 SOTA-NE - About Taiwan
Its reliance on two sources - neither of which are recent or definitive studies of Taiwanese history - may be responsible for missing facts or nuances.
Taiwanese youths continued to seek better opportunities abroad in higher education, and the exposure to liberal ideas (such as Wilsonian principles of self-determination) not accessible to them in Taiwan's censored press helped along a new political consciousness.
Taiwanese were conscripted as soldiers and laborers both abroad and on Taiwan.
www.freewebs.com /sota-ne/about_taiwan.html   (1990 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: History
History Guide - Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history, maintained at the State and University Library at Göttingen, Germany.
History House - History like you should have learned it.
History News Network - Aspires to put news in historical context by publishing articles written by historians on current events topics.
dmoz.org /Society/History   (705 words)

  
 History of the Republic of China - China History - China
History of the Republic of China - China History - China
Many of the Taiwanese who had formed home rule groups under the Japanese were the victims of 228.
Restrictions on the use of Taiwanese in the broadcast media and in schools were lifted as well.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/History_of_the_Republic_of_China   (5019 words)

  
 www.webstreamhosting.com - History & Culture: Ethnicity, Folklore, Mythology information
Mexico tamaulipas history The State of Tamaulipas is located to the northwest of Mexico, between the parallel 22º 12' 48'' and 27º 40' 47'' of north latitude and the meridian 1º 56' 55'' of length east and 1º 100' 46'' to the west.
History of fort worth texas Fort Worth is on Interstate highways 35W, 20, and 30 and the Clear Fork of the Trinity River in central Tarrant County.
Family History Library Family History Rainey, Clarence W. History of the university of hawaii at manoa This illustration, from Psalm 37 (38) in the Eadwine Psalter, is a good example of a medieval worldview (and, coincidentally, the life experience of a typical graduate student!).
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 Taiwan's 400 years of history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Originally Taiwan was settled by people of Malay-Polynesian descent, who settled in the low-lying coastal plains.
Take a look at the fascinating Takao Club website: fully illustrated explorations into the history and culture of Taiwan (Formosa), with particular focus on Takao (Takow, Kaohsiung).
Also read an article from the New York Times of 29 March 1947 about what happened in Taiwan during those fateful days.
www.taiwandc.org /history.htm   (367 words)

  
 Republic of China - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Another curiousity of the Taiwanese system is due to historical artifact--because Taiwan was previously dominated by strong-man single party politics, real power in the system shifted from one position to another, depending on what position was currently occupied by the leader of the state (Chiang Kai-shek and later his son, Chiang Ching-kuo).
Because Taiwanese were largely excluded from the mainlander dominated government, many went into the business world to find success.
Speaking Taiwanese under the localization movement has become an emblem of expressing Taiwanese identity.
www.voyager.in /Republic_of_China   (5847 words)

  
 USA: Military Timeline (1945-49)
Entire divisions of the KMT defected to the Communists, who were known for their honesty, progess, and justness, as opposed to the extraordinarily corruption within the wealthy KMT.
When the Communists prevailed after 23 devasting years of war, the Kuomintang escaped to Taiwan, killing over 28,000 Taiwanese civilians in their conquest of the island.
The U.S. refused to accept the reality of the Chinese Communist victory, and insisted that the Taiwanese government was the government of all China.
www.marxists.org /history/usa/military/timeline/1945-49.htm   (1799 words)

  
 List of themed timelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Timelines are sequences of related events in chronological order.
Other lists can be found at List of reference tables.
General: List of years in science, Timeline of scientific discoveries, Timeline of scientific experiments, Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_themed_timelines.html   (252 words)

  
 Taiwan at Caribbean Topfunwebsites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It was primarily around that period that Taiwan's Taiwanese aborigine was first joined and intermarried with male traders and seasonal workers from Mainland China.
Speaking Taiwanese under the Taiwan localization movement movement has become an emblem of expressing Taiwanese identity and the language has undergone a resurgence since the early 1990's.
Both some Chinese nationalists and some Taiwanese nationalists see Taiwanese national identity as incompatible with larger China identity, leading one to deny its existence and the other to promote it.
www.topfunwebsites.com /guyana/taiwan.html   (2730 words)

  
 China in the 20th Century
Mao Zedong, although noted in history as one of the greatest revolutionaries, was one of the worst politicians.
She mostly deals with the last 20 years of history including the rise of Deng to power.
It looks at the history of the Taiwanese government and how for the first time the direction that it is going in is unclear.
departments.kings.edu /history/20c/china.html   (6493 words)

  
 Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The KMT (which is pro-unification in the long run) supports the status quo for the indefinite future because unification under the Communist Party is unacceptable to its members.
Records from ancient China indicate that the Chinese might have known of the existence of Taiwan since the Three Kingdoms period (third century); however, this hypothesis has not been validated since each dynasty gives different names for the islands discovered off shore and none of these names can be matched to Taiwan.
About half of the Taiwanese population can be considered religious believers, most of whom identify themselves as Buddhists or Taoists.
www.info-pedia.net /about/taiwan   (1826 words)

  
 Formosa
It is useful as a tool for exploring the materials on this site, but not as a comprehensive timeline of Taiwanese history.
Instructors of world history will find the site useful mainly as a window into the Orientalist mindset that shaped 19th-century European and American views of non-Western peoples.
While it is not difficult to find examples of 19th-century views of non-Western peoples, this is an unusually rich collection, one that includes both texts and images and is readily available.
chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/r/60/whm.html   (578 words)

  
 Timeline of Taiwanese history - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Timeline of Taiwanese history - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
1927: Taiwanese People's Party, Taiwan's first political party, founded.
1941: Segregation of primary schools between Japanese and Taiwanese children ends.
www.music.us /education/T/Timeline-of-Taiwanese-history.htm   (976 words)

  
 Timeline of International Baseball History
Taiwanese teams then win five of the next six titles.
Taiwanese to enter the farm system of a major league team.
He is named MVP of the California League in his first season after hitting.316 with 31 home runs, 123 RBI, and 31 stolen bases.
www.ericenders.com /internationalbb.htm   (2241 words)

  
 Oldman1787's Blog: 03/01/2004 - 03/31/2004
The oldman managed to catch a preliminary briefing from Fred Barnes on FOX_news, and Fred Barnes quite honestly reported that he had left for Iraq feeling quite optimistic about the prospects for success but that once he had gotten there that his assessment and revised opinion was "sobering" regarding the obstacles to success.
Taiwanese independence would also establish a dangerous precedent for other potentially secession-minded areas of the country,...
In his book, The Natural History of the Rich, Conniff writes that executives climbing to the top of corporate ladders exhibit mannerisms that are quite similar to those displayed by silverback gorillas.
oldman1787.blogspot.com /2004_03_01_oldman1787_archive.html   (16081 words)

  
 An interactive timeline? - China History Forum, online chinese history forum
China History Forum is an online chinese history forum, discussion board or community for all who are interested in learning and discussing chinese history from prehistoric till modern times, including chinese art of war, chinese culture topics.
I was thinking that we should put forth an interactive timeline to make the article site more interactive.
I was thinking about the timeline they have on encarta, in which they have timelines with pictures and links to important characters, events, etc etc. I got my inspiration from there.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=588   (400 words)

  
 Keywords » Academic
I had created a timeline on my computer, and was slowly transferring it to the web on my own wiki, but it is simply too big a task for one person.
Lastly, Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, the group of right-wing historians also known as tsukurukai or 新しい歴史教科書を作る会, has just published translations of their infamous textbook for middle-school students titled New History Textbook: Revised Edition (『改訂版 新しい歴史教科書』) in [Note: The following links are all PDF files:] English, Korean, and Chinese (simplified and traditional).
It is a very useful overview of the reforms to the history curriculum that have taken place in Taiwan since the 90s.
keywords.oxus.net /archives/category/academic   (4404 words)

  
 Euroseek.com - Search Results
Description:The sub-ethnic group in Taiwan for which Taiwanese is considered a native language
Description:Main articles: History of Taiwan and Timeline of Taiwanese history...
Description:Information about Taiwanese, a variety of Min Nan Chinese spoken mainly in Taiwan.
www.euroseek.net /query?iflang=uk&query=Taiwanese   (120 words)

  
 Taiwan Timeline - KerimsWiki
This section of the wiki is meant to serve two functions.
It is both a Timeline for students of Taiwanese history, and a historical glossary for students of Chinese.
By providing the Chinese characters for the names of historical figures and events, it is possible to search the English term and find the Chinese equivalent, or vice-versa.
wiki.oxus.net /wiki/Taiwan_Timeline   (191 words)

  
 Federal Bureau of Investigation - Timeline of FBI History
Four of the eleven convicts jumped bail and hid in the communist underground for several years.
FBI Director Hoover, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, authorized official cooperation with reporter Don Whitehead as he wrote a history of the FBI entitled The FBI Story.
Law enforcement officials from across the country could tap this electronic database of criminal histories and other information to identify suspects and learn more about persons arrested.
www.fbi.gov /libref/historic/history/historicdates.htm   (4047 words)

  
 Embassy of Haiti - Key Dates in Haitian History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The corrupt Duvalier dictatorship marks one of the saddest chapters in Haitian history with tens of thousands killed or exiled.
Manigat is ousted by General Namphy four months later and in November General Prosper Avril unseats Namphy.
President Avril, on a trade mission to Taiwan, returns empty-handed after grassroots-based democratic sectors inform Taiwanese authorities that the Haitian nation will not be responsible for any contracts agreed to by Avril.
www.haiti.org /keydate.htm   (1760 words)

  
 Taiwan Timeline
Japan formally surrenders on the deck of the U.S. battleship Missouri, ending World War II.
China protests the passage of the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Voters elect pro-independence candidate Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party, ending more than 50 years of Nationalist rule of Taiwan.
www.infoplease.com /spot/taiwantime1.html   (2018 words)

  
 Timeline & history of available micro heli's - RC Groups
Timeline and history of available micro heli's - RC Groups
- then copied be taiwanese company X under the name XX, they changed this feature for the better.
For new members it would be good to know some history and what models that parts can be swapped on etc.
www.rcgroups.com /forums/showthread.php?postid=1702497   (927 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Timeline; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/?title=Timeline   (526 words)

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