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Wikipedia: Taiwan/History - English
URL: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Taiwan/History

Taiwan's aboriginal peoples, who originated in Austronesia? and southern China, have lived on Taiwan for 12,000 to 15,000 years. Significant migration to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland began as early as A.D. 500.

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Taiwan's Colonialisation - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/apapadimos/Taiwan_Colonisation.htm

Taiwan history commencing with the Dutch in Taiwan and finishing with the Japanese.

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Taiwan Women Web--A History of Taiwan Women's Movement - English
URL: http://taiwan.yam.org.tw/womenweb/action_e.htm

Early in the 50's and 60's, there were already several women organizations such as YWCA and Women's Association in Taiwan. However, the major purpose of these organizations were to assist the elderly and the disabilities, and, most of all, to function as a communicative channel for their members.

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History Taiwan - English
URL: http://www.regit.com/regitour/taiwan/about/history.htm

History Little is know about Taiwan’s earliest history, however archaelogists believe Taiwan’s link with mainland China is at least 10,000 years old. The archaelogists have identified four stages of prehistoric tool development that match those of the mainland.

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Bibliography of Taiwan Independence Movement - English
URL: http://www.usc.edu/dept/TSA/ti-books.html

Research Material on Taiwan Independence Movement.

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Women's Feb. 28; History of Taiwan - English
URL: http://www.uta.edu/accounting/faculty/tsay/feb28wom.htm

In the February 28 political massacre, many men sacrificed their lives. Thus the stories and history have been focused on these men.

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The February 28 Holocaust - English
URL: http://www.uta.edu/accounting/faculty/tsay/feb28hd.htm

On February 28, 1947, about two thousand people gathered in front of the Bureau of Monoply in Taipei to protest the brutal beating on a woman cigarette peddler and the killing of a bystander by the police on the previous evening.

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The History of Taiwan - English
URL: http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/Papers/CityOfSadness/behind1.html

Taiwan, originally named "Tapanga" by the aborigines, is an island initially inhabited by nine ethnic groups of aborigines belonging to Malayo-Polynesian system. The island was later renamed "Formosa" by the Portuguese. Since the 6th century, Chinese have emigrated to the island.

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The True History of Taiwan - English
URL: http://www.taiwannation.com.tw/english.htm

Taiwan was known as Yizhou (barbarian ¡¦s island) or Liuqiu (Okinawa) in antiquities. Many historical records and annals documented the development of Taiwan by the Chinese people in earlier periods.

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History of Taiwan Cosmopolis - English
URL: http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo5/htaiwan.htm

A short history of Taiwan. From Chiang Kai-shek's KMT with its Leninist structures to the democratisation under Lee Teng-hui.

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History of Taiwan - English
URL: http://www.worldrover.com/history/taiwan_history.html

Taiwan's aboriginal peoples, who originated in Austronesia and southern China, have lived on Taiwan for 12,000 to 15,000 years. Significant migration to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland began as early as A.D. 500. Dutch traders first claimed the island in 1624 as a base for Dutch commerce with Japan and the China coast.

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Taiwan's Holocaust Remembered - English
URL: http://www.taiwandc.org/228-intr.htm

The date "February 28" is etched into the hearts and minds of the Taiwanese people like the word "Holocaust" in the history of the Jewish people. On that day, 50 years ago in 1947, an incident took place in Taipei, which led to the massive slaughter of thousands of Taiwanese at the hands of Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese troops.

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History of Taiwan - English
URL: http://www.inform.umd.edu/Student/Campus_Activities/StudentOrg/tsa/History.html

Links.

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Institute of Taiwan History, Preparatory Office - English
URL: http://www.sinica.edu.tw/as/intro/ith.html

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The establishment of the Institute of Taiwan History's Preparatory Office in June 1993 marked the culmination of a long formatory process. In 1986, Professor K.C. Chang and others, intending to encourage research on Taiwan history, brought together scholars from the Institute of History and Philology, Institute of Ethnology, Institute of Modern History, and Sun Yat-Sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy, to plan for the Taiwan History Field Research Project.

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World History Archives: History of Taiwan - English
URL: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55/index-c.html

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Taiwan History - English
URL: http://taiwanresources.com/info/history/

The Taiwan Timeline. Photos & Pictures. Crazy Cat. The Dutch Expedition for Recovering Formosa, 1663-1664.

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Taiwan's 400 years of history - English
URL: http://www.taiwandc.org/history.htm

On the following pages we will take you on a walk through the history of Taiwan. Originally Taiwan was settled by people of Malay-Polynesian descent, who settled in the low-lying coastal plains. They were the ancestors of the present-day aborigine groups.

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