How Taiwan became Chinese : Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century

Publication Data

• Title How Taiwan became Chinese : Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century
• Author Tonio Andrade
• Publisher Columbia University Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Series statement from jacket.

Contents

Taiwan on the eve of colonization
A scramble for influence
Pax Hollandica
La Isla Hermosa: the rise of the spanish colony in northern Taiwan
The fall of Spanish Taiwan
The birth of co-colonization
The challenges of a Chinese frontier
"The only bees on Formosa that give honey"
Lord and vassal: company rule over the aborigines
The beginning of the end
The fall of Dutch Taiwan
Conclusion.

Topics

• Taiwan :: History :: Dutch rule, 1624-1661
• Taiwan :: Colonization
• Taiwan

How Taiwan became Chinese : Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century by Tonio Andrade. ISBN 9780231503686. Published by Columbia University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.