How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeen

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How Taiwan Became Chinese by Tonio Andrade Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Tells how Europeans managed to establish colonies throughout the globe not because of technological superiority but because their states sponsored overseas colonialism whereas Asian states did not. This book shows how European trade, protection, and occupation played a central role in Taiwan s colonization and incorporation by the Chinese empire. Publisher Description At the beginning of the 1600s, Taiwan was a sylvan backwater, sparsely inhabited by headhunters and visited mainly by pirates and fishermen. By the end of the century it was home to more than a hundred thousand Chinese colonists, who grew rice and sugar for export on world markets. This book examines this remarkable transformation. Drawing primarily on Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese sources, it argues that, paradoxically, it was Europeans who started the large scale Chinese colonization of the island: the Spanish, who had a base on northern Taiwan from 1626 to 1642, and, more importantly, the Dutch, who had a colony from 1623 to 1662. The latter enticed people from the coastal province of Fujian to Taiwan with offers of free land, freedom from taxes, and economic subventions, creating a Chinese colony under European rule.Taiwan was thus the site of a colonial conjuncture, a system that the author calls co-colonization. The Dutch relied closely on Chinese colonists for food, entrepreneurs

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2008
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780231128551
• Condition: Fine

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