Kirk A. Denton
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9789888528578
- eISBN:
- 9789888528905
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888528578.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Chapter 2 focuses on the National Museum of Taiwan History (國立台灣歷史博物館) opened in 2011 in the city of Tainan. The first in Taiwan dedicated to telling the story of Taiwan’s development into ...
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Chapter 2 focuses on the National Museum of Taiwan History (國立台灣歷史博物館) opened in 2011 in the city of Tainan. The first in Taiwan dedicated to telling the story of Taiwan’s development into nationhood, the museum centers its narrative around the tropes of inclusiveness, ethnic diversity, immigration, and political pluralism. In the process, it avoids the excesses of a more radical Taiwanese nativism and presents a “consensus” view of the history of the island that de-emphasizes historical traumas, such as inter-ethnic conflict, the horrendous treatment of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples, and the February 28 Incident.Less
Chapter 2 focuses on the National Museum of Taiwan History (國立台灣歷史博物館) opened in 2011 in the city of Tainan. The first in Taiwan dedicated to telling the story of Taiwan’s development into nationhood, the museum centers its narrative around the tropes of inclusiveness, ethnic diversity, immigration, and political pluralism. In the process, it avoids the excesses of a more radical Taiwanese nativism and presents a “consensus” view of the history of the island that de-emphasizes historical traumas, such as inter-ethnic conflict, the horrendous treatment of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples, and the February 28 Incident.
Lung-chu Chen
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190601126
- eISBN:
- 9780190601157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190601126.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Legal History
Chapter 1 reviews the history of Taiwan from its ancient settlers to the military occupation of Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China (ROC) in the mid-1940s and the eventual decision by the United ...
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Chapter 1 reviews the history of Taiwan from its ancient settlers to the military occupation of Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China (ROC) in the mid-1940s and the eventual decision by the United States to end diplomatic recognition in 1979. Contrary to claims by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), China’s control over Taiwan was historically tenuous and short-lived. The chapter describes the sequential colonization by ancient peoples, the European occupations that began in the seventeenth century, the Qing dynasty’s efforts to control the island, the Japanese colonization that began in 1895, and finally the ROC’s military occupation of Taiwan in 1945 on behalf of the Allied Forces, and the Kuomintang (KMT) regime’s exile there after its defeat in the Chinese civil war. The chapter ends with a brief summary of U.S. policy toward Taiwan after World War II, including the adoption of the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979.Less
Chapter 1 reviews the history of Taiwan from its ancient settlers to the military occupation of Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China (ROC) in the mid-1940s and the eventual decision by the United States to end diplomatic recognition in 1979. Contrary to claims by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), China’s control over Taiwan was historically tenuous and short-lived. The chapter describes the sequential colonization by ancient peoples, the European occupations that began in the seventeenth century, the Qing dynasty’s efforts to control the island, the Japanese colonization that began in 1895, and finally the ROC’s military occupation of Taiwan in 1945 on behalf of the Allied Forces, and the Kuomintang (KMT) regime’s exile there after its defeat in the Chinese civil war. The chapter ends with a brief summary of U.S. policy toward Taiwan after World War II, including the adoption of the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979.
