Taiwan
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Admiral Zheng
American foreign policy
Author_Evan N. Dawley
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Chiang Kai-Shek
China
colonialism
East India Company
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European colonialism
forthcoming
hakka
hoklo
indigenous
Japan
Koxinga
Kuomintang
Ming
Qing
rights
Taiwan Strait
Taiwan straits
World War II
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- ISBN 9781836391784
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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While most English-language histories of Taiwan focus on its geopolitical role, this history centres on the people of Taiwan themselves and explores how they have formed a unique polity, telling the story of the Indigenous Taiwanese, the Hoklo and Hakka who came from China before the twentieth century, Japanese colonialism and the Chinese who arrived after 1945. Historian Evan N. Dawley describes how successive waves of immigration changed Taiwan and how these diverse groups of Indigenous tribes and settlers interacted economically and culturally, creating new Taiwanese identities in the process. Over the last century Taiwan has developed from an authoritarian state to one of the world’s most vibrant democracies and advanced economies. It is a successful independent society, albeit one whose existence remains under a shadow.
Evan N. Dawley is Associate Professor of History at Goucher College, Maryland. He is the author of Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s–1950s (2019).
