How Taiwan became Chinese
Subtitle: Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century
By: Tonio Adrade.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780231128551; 9780231503686
Subjects: Taiwan -- History -- Dutch rule, 1624-1661; Taiwan -- Colonization
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." "How Taiwan Became Chinese examines this remarkable transformation. Drawing primarily on Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese sources, Tonio Andrade argues that, paradoxically, Europeans started the large-scale Chinese colonization of the island, along with the Spanish, who established a base in northern Taiwan, and the Dutch, who ruled a colony from 1628 to 1662. Taiwan, therefore, was the site of a colonial conjuncture, a system Andrade calls co-colonization."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Taiwan on the eve of colonization; title: A scramble for influence; title: Pax Hollandica; title: La Isla Hermosa: the rise of the spanish colony in northern Taiwan; title: The fall of Sanish Taiwan; title: The birth of co-colonization; title: The challenges of a Chinese frontier; title: "The only bees on formosa that give honey"; title: Lord and vassal: Company rule over the aborigines; title: The beginning of the end; title: The fall of Ddutch Taiwan; title: Conclusion.