Mapping Taiwan's History

Taiwan's History, from the earliest records to modern times.





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4. The English East India Company's Trade in the Western Pacific through Taiwan, 1670 – 1683 by Ryan Edgecombe Holroyd
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13. WaPo: “For decades, no one spoke of Taiwan’s hidden massacre.” Wang. 2017
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15. Nuclear Weapons in the Taiwan Strait Part II. Oct 2020, Gregory Kulacki
16. Richard Nixon. The Life. John A. Farrell. 2017
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18. Professor Explains History of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong | The Great Courses Plus
19. Qing Dynasty. Britannica

0:00 Mapped Intro
2:18 Switching Hands
5:35 Taiwan under Colonial Japan
9:36 Taiwan as part of the Republic of China
12:45 2-2-8
16:11 Taiwan as *the* Republic of China
20:33 A status quo emerges
24:16 Democratization
26:53 Is Taiwan part of China?

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[cwildeman]

I'm Canadian, but I've been living in Taiwan for about 15 years. This video should be required viewing for any foreigner who wants to come here for any length of time. Great work!

[howardchen]

I am Taiwanese, your video is the most detail and accuracy Taiwan history in Youtube.
Thanks for your great job, share and research.

[hybriDcember]

Even as a Taiwanese, I can hardly piece together our island’s history in totality, let alone detailing in a concise, objective fashion. Excellent research here. Subscribe +1

[synapsewu]

OMG, as a Taiwanese, this video actually brought tears to my eyes. In my ( and I believe, the majority of younger Taiwanese) eyes, this is a accurate, fact-based video about the island's history. I'd even suggest the translated version to be included in our high school's curriculum.

[goliathdelaru]

Taiwan Island was part of China long before Manhattan Island was part of USA & even before the existence of USA.

[nnnxxxzzz]

4:37 correction: Qing dynasty didn’t rule the whole Taiwan island, just the west part. The east part was still controlled by the indigenous people.

[jring]

That was great to watch. I'm a US citizen who's been in Taiwan for more than half my life (32/55 years), and it tied together things I hadn't really quite gotten yet. Thank you. And I'm going to make my Taiwanese/American kids (ages 13 and 20) watch it.

[weixingyang]

The awkward part are Kinmen Island and Matsu Islands as they are still officially under Fujian province. Also, technically the civil war between PROC and ROC didn't end yet as there is no ceasefire agreement or treaty between them.

[woolfel]

my maternal grandfather grew up in Taiwan when it was under japanese rule. Taiwanese of that generation didn't consider themselves japanese, they considered themselves Han chinese. For college, my grandfather got a masters in chemistry in Japan, returned to Taiwan and started a company. The relationship and connection between Japan and Taiwan is complex. Taiwan cuisine draws influences from all over Asia and japanese milk bread originated from Taiwan.

I still have lots of family in Taiwan and many in Taiwan hate Chiang Kai Shek. To do justice on this complex subject, it would take dozens of hour long videos.

[DeglintoNisto]

Oh boy, this video will not look good on your social credit score :D

[contperlin]

I'm a Taiwanese and this is by far the best and most accurate video describing Taiwan's history on Youtube. Thank You!!

[cghsieh]

Thank you for this detailed video. As an older Taiwanese who grew up under Chiang's Martial Law, this video brought back many sad and unpleasant memories. My father grew up under the Japanese occupation, and later witnessed the 228 incident. He still remembered the horror including a river turning red due to human bloods. I personally experienced the Formosa Magazine incident. As children, we were punished in school for speaking Taiwanese dialog. We were treated like 2nd class citizens on our own native land.
Taiwanese people have experienced both the Japanese and the Kuomintang occupations, can you blame them longing for an independent country of their own?

[martijnburer]

This channel is gonna blow up someday. Top content man, you can tell it’s very well researched and i respect the effort.

[jasonchen]

I'm from Taiwan but didn't go through their education system (I study in the States). It's so amazing to see a "foreigner" cover my home country's history with such depth and detail. Thank you so much! Learned a lot :)

[pagarb]

I visited Taiwan in 1972, the economy was about to take off, a lot of new businesses were starting up and there was a lot of optimism for the future. One interesting thing was that it was something of a martial state, there were what looked like military police everywhere, they wore US Army summer class A uniforms, had spit-shined boots and wore highly polished helmet liners. They were all very tall, over 6 feet, and very well disciplined. They'd march down the street, their beat might be a mile, when they got to the end they'd do an about-face and march back. Sometimes they'd be in pairs, when two them came towards each other and meet, the higher ranking one would stop, stand at attention, the other would come up, stop, salute then take a position alongside the higher ranking guy and they'd march down the street in step. When their shift was over the relief would show up and there'd be a "changing of the guard", they'd salute and the one taking over the beat would march down the street and the other would head back to the barracks. There was also a very high level of alert to a threat from China, there were occasional battles between F-86's and Mig-15's, the F-86's always won. Knew some guy who flew F-86's and F-101's on recon over China, they were really dangerous missions. The Migs would go high and and try to dive on them, said he'd watch their contrails as they tried to cut off his line of escape, they'd come from different directions trying to converge to a point where they box him in. He'd kick in the after burner and go like hell, pop panels getting out of there, they'd go thru engines in a few hours of doing this. A lot of them didn't come back.

[jingchengyang]

Great video, most people thought that the ROC under the KMT was a very democratic and free nation like a fairy tale, which it is not. Very objective coverage of what has happened!

[TheSilver]

Very interesting video, well detailed history without a pro ROC or pro PRC bias. Thank you!

[manonmojo]

Super impressed - easy to follow, clear visuals, articulate...and I love the care you poured into lights and coloring.
I can feel the craft. Thank you ! Keep up the good, beautiful work

[TheAnna]

I am not sure if you have mentioned the Spanish Formosa. Northern part of Taiwan was colonized by Spanish during 1626 to 1642.
Other than that really great video! Love it.

[FASTREDMR]

A lot of the roads, bridges, building, rails, dams, agriculture canals, educational systems and factories was built and financed by the Japanese government back then. Even today, you could still see those Japanese built infrastructures and culture influence all over Taiwan. My grandfather was sent to Japan for his higher education and my grandmother was migrated from Japan. Before 1960, both my grandparents could only speak Taiwanese and Japanese (like all older Taiwanese in theirs time). KMT change all that, no Taiwanese or Japanese to be spoken in public or school. If you ask most people from Taiwan ( in Taiwan or oversea ) who they are, They will tell you "I'm Taiwanese". Taiwan is a independent country with it unique cultures and people! People often ask me " Are you Chinese, Japanese or Korean?", I will always answer "I'm Taiwanese".