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

by Tonio Andrade and Athena Dixon

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 sugar for export on world markets. This book examines this remarkable transformation. Drawing primarily on Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese sources, it argues that, paradoxically, it was Europeans who started...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023112855X
• ISBN13: 9780231128551
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher