EASIA101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Taiwanese Identity, Mainland Chinese, Confucianism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: East Asian Studies
• Course: EASIA101
• Professor: David Quinter

Document Summary

Taiwan: a history of occupations under dutch occupation during the first half of 17th century until 1662 when zheng chenggong (or koxinga; 1624-1662) from the ming seized the island. Taiwan was a access point for the dutch to get products from china and trade them to japan for silver in 1683, taiwan was marked under qing dynasty (1644-1912) map after the. Taiwan was returned to china in 1945 when japan had to give up. In 1945 when japan relinquished the island mainland china such tensions boiled over in the february 28 incident. The government received new of event and called it the feb 29 incident. On march 8 chiang kai shek sent troops all over taiwan to wipe out any suspicious people. Managed to suppress these youth groups on march 13 the fmt initiated an operation to rid taiwan of traitors. many.