Taiwan Formosa

Author : George H. Kerr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788691550
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formosa Betrayed written by George H. Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formosa Betrayed is the authoritative account of the Kuomintang takeover of Taiwan and the 1947 "228 Incident" in which tens of thousands of Taiwanese people - an entire generation of intellectuals and leaders - were massacred by the new government. Kerr was there, knew Taiwan well, and paints a compelling picture of Taiwan's tragic past.

Author : JOYCE. BERGVELT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788691482
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord of Formosa written by JOYCE. BERGVELT and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1624. In southwestern Taiwan the Dutch establish a trading settlement; in Nagasaki a boy is born who will become immortalized as Ming dynasty loyalist Koxinga. Lord of Formosa tells the intertwined stories of Koxinga and the Dutch colony from their beginnings to their fateful climax in 1662. The year before, as Ming China collapsed in the face of the Manchu conquest, Koxinga retreated across the Taiwan Strait intent on expelling the Dutch. Thus began a nine-month battle for Fort Zeelandia, the single most compelling episode in the history of Taiwan. The first major military clash between China and Europe, it is a tale of determination, courage, and betrayal - a battle of wills between the stubborn Governor Coyett and the brilliant but volatile Koxinga. Although the story has been told in non-fiction works, these have suffered from a lack of sources on Koxinga as the little we know of him comes chiefly from his enemies. While adhering to the historical facts, author Joyce Bergvelt sympathetically and intelligently fleshes out Koxinga. From his loving relationship with his Japanese mother, estrangement from his father (a Chinese merchant pirate), to his struggle with madness, we have the first rounded, intimate portrait of the man. Dutch-born Bergvelt draws on her journalism background, Chinese language and history studies, and time in Taiwan, to create an irresistible panorama of memorable characters caught up in one of the seventeenth century's most fascinating dramas.

Author : Taiwan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Progress of Taiwan (Formosa) for Ten Years 1895-1904 written by Taiwan and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Niki Alsford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315279193
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan written by Niki Alsford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 April 1895, British Consul Lionel Charles Hopkins, at the northern port of Tamsui, was summoned by Tang Jingsong, the governor of Taiwan, to his yamen in the western district of Taipei. Shortly after his arrival, Hopkins was handed a petition. Signed by a number of Taiwanese ‘notables’, the document appealed to the British government to incorporate the island into a protectorate in the wake of an impending Japanese invasion. The British declined. This book addresses the interconnectivity of these two communities, by focusing on the market town of Dadaocheng in northern Taiwan. It seeks to contextualise and examine the establishment of a ‘settler society’ as well as the creation of a sojourning British community, showing how they became a precursor of modernity and ‘middle classism’ there. By uncovering who the signatories of the petition were and what their motivation was to call upon the British consulate to bring the island under its protection, it brings into focus a remarkable period of transition not only for the history of Taiwan but also for the modern history of China. Using 1895 as a year of enquiry, it ultimately challenges the current orthodoxy that modernity in Taiwan was simply a by-product of the Japanese colonial period. As a social and transnational history of the events that took place in Taiwan during 1895, this book will be useful for students of East Asian Studies, Modern Chinese Studies and Asian History.

Author : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taiwan (Formosa) written by United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Alexander Pickering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneering in Formosa written by William Alexander Pickering and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allan J. Shackleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910736449
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formosa Calling written by Allan J. Shackleton and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-hand account of the "228 Incident," a massacre in which somewhere between ten thousand and thirty thousand local leaders and intellectuals in Taiwan were systematically slaughtered by the Nationalist Chinese regime.

Author : William G. Goddard
Publisher : [East Lansing] : Michigan State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formosa written by William G. Goddard and published by [East Lansing] : Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan, China. Historical and general study. Political problems and wars. Successive waves of refugees from the mainland. Governments, economic development and cultural factors. Studies of political leadership. Maps. Bibliography pp. 222 and 223.

Author : James Wheeler Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Island of Formosa, Past and Present written by James Wheeler Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joshua Samuel Brown
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
ISBN 13 : 9780971594081
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vignettes of Taiwan written by Joshua Samuel Brown and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joshua Samuel Brown first stepped out of the passenger terminal at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, he was a stranger in a humid land with insufficient funds, zero job prospects and an over-packed suitcase. Like much else in his life up to that point, his decision to move to Taiwan was based largely on random occurrence and cosmic coincidence. He was twenty-four years old, thousands of miles away from home, and at that moment the happiest man alive. This anthology of short stories, travel essays, photographs, random meditations, and political meanderings grew out of his years on the island formerly known as Formosa.