How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century by Tonio Andrade

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

Tonio Andrade

300 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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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...

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