ABSTRACT
This book explores Taiwan's development from its beginnings as a political entity to a home for a Mingloyalist regime, to its centuries as a Ch'ing prefecture and province, to its half-century as a Japanese possession, and to fifty years as the home of the Kuomintang-controlled Republic of China.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|39 pages
Up the Mountains and Out to the Sea
The Expansion of the Fukienese in the Late Ming Period
chapter 4|23 pages
The Seventeenth-Century Transformation
Taiwan Under the Dutch and the Cheng Regime
chapter 6|30 pages
From Landlords to Local Strongmen
The Transformation of Local Elites in Mid-Ch’ing Taiwan, 1780–1862
chapter 10|45 pages
Between Assimilation and Independence
Taiwanese Political Aspirations Under Nationalist Chinese Rule, 1945–1948
chapter 16|45 pages
Political Taiwanization and Pragmatic Diplomacy
The Eras of Chiang Ching-kuo and Lee Teng-hui, 1971–1994
