How Taiwan became Chinese : Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century /
Andrade, Tonio.
New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press,
c2008.
Series statement from jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-290).
Taiwan on the eve of colonization -- A scramble for influence -- Pax Hollandica -- La Isla Hermosa: the rise of the spanish colony in northern Taiwan -- The fall of Sanish Taiwan -- The birth of co-colonization -- The challenges of a Chinese frontier -- "The only bees on formosa that give honey" -- Lord and vassal: company rule over the aborigines -- The beginning of the end -- The fall of Dutch Taiwan -- Conclusion.