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The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The sudden appearance of a culture based on agriculture around 3000 BC is believed to reflect the arrival of the ancestors of today's Taiwanese indigenous peoples. [ 3 ]
History of. Taiwan portal. v. t. e. As a result of the surrender and occupation of Japan at the end of World War II, the islands of Taiwan and Penghu were placed under the governance of the Republic of China (ROC), [note 1] ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT), on 25 October 1945. Following the February 28 massacre in 1947, martial law was declared in ...
The tradition of colonial studies during the period of Japanese rule can be divided into the early, middle and later periods. The early period was mainly about survey reports on the whole island of Taiwan, setting a milestone in writing Taiwanese history, for example, Taketoshi and Saburo's Journal of the Ruling of Taiwan (1905) and Goto Shinpei's investigation of old habits; The middle period ...
Tāi-thiat-thè. Following their defeat in the Chinese Civil War, on December 7, 1949, the remnants of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC), alongside many refugees, retreated to the island of Taiwan (Formosa). The exodus is sometimes called the Great Retreat (Chinese : 大撤退) in Taiwan. The Nationalist Kuomintang party ...
Taiwan's 400 Year History: The Origins and Continuing Development of the Taiwanese Society and People ( Chinese: 台灣人四百年史; pinyin: Táiwān Rén Sìbǎi Nián Shǐ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân-lâng 400 Nî Sú; lit. 'Taiwanese people's 400-year history') is a book about the people's history of Taiwan, written by Su Beng, one of the ...
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is an island country in East Asia. The island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, makes up 99% of the land area of the territories under ROC control. The main island is 35,808 square kilometres (13,826 sq mi) and lies some 180 kilometres (112 mi) across the Taiwan Strait from the southeastern ...
Taiwan under Japanese rule. The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became an annexed territory of the Empire of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War. The consequent Republic of Formosa resistance movement on ...
Standard Mandarin. Hanyu Pinyin. Táiwān Dìlǐ Zhōngxīn. Wade–Giles. T’ai-wan Ti-li Chung-hsin. Geographic center of Taiwan is the center point of Taiwan Island. It is located at Mount Hutou (t 虎 頭 山, s 虎 头 山, Hutoushan, "Tiger Head Mountain") in the township of Puli in Nantou County, Taiwan.