Preface / Ng Chiau-tong (黃昭堂)

Preface / Ong Meiri (王明理)

Some Remarks on Changes in Ong Iok-tek’s Recognition

of Indigenous People of Taiwan / Kondo Aya (近藤綾)

Explanatory Note

Preliminary Remarks

Introduction A Stormy Situation Facing Taiwan



Chapter 1 A LAND OF FATEFUL PAST

—In search of a new world

1. Taiwan: How it was so named.

2. Of Pirate Families.

3. Hardships: It all began in the Penghu Islands.

4. Japan’s Ambition.

5. The Tragedy of Indigenes.



Chapter 2 A NEW WORLD YET INCOMPLETE

—Dutch period (1624-1661)

1. Dutch Rule.

2. Footsteps of the Spaniards up North.

3. Transit Trade Boomed.

4. The Indigenes under Control.

5. The Early Honeymoon Period.

6. Taiwanese Society under Dutch Rule.

7. Kuo Huai-i’s Rebellion



Chapter 3 KOXINGA: HIS BRIGHT AND DARK SIDES

—Cheng period (1661-1683)

1. The Cheng: A prototype of the Kuomintang regime.

2. Flight to Taiwan.

3. The Cheng: Its nature.

4. The Cheng: Its inner conflict.

5. Resistance or Truce?

6. The Harshest Demand Ever.



Chapter 4 A PILE OF BLOOD AND SWEAT

—Qing period (1683-1895)

1. “Isolate Dangerous Elements”.

2. Heading for Taiwan in Droves .

3. The Life of the Pioneers.

4. Corrupt and Incompetent Officials of the Qing Court.

5. “Minor Rebellion Every Three Years,

Major Rebellion Every 5 Years”.

6. “Factionalism and Feuding”.

7. Fu-chien’s Colony.

8. Land and People beyond Qing’s Rule.

9. The Taiwan Strait—History’s Watershed .



Chapter 5 NO ONE BUT TAIWANESE

—Republic of Formosa (1895)

1. Forsaken Before You Knew.

2. The Nature of the Republic of Formosa.

3. Qing’s Soldiers and Taiwanese.



Chapter 6 IN THE VORTEX OF MODERNIZATION

—The Japan colonial period (1895-1945)

1. What Did the Japanese Inherit.

2. Successful Colonial Rule.

3. Some Comparisons: Vertical and horizontal.

4. Hopeless Armed Resistance.

5. A Thorough Carrot-and-Stick Policy.

6. Chien Ta-shih and Ch’en Ch’iu-chu.

7. A Superstitious “Conspiracy”.

8. Lin Hsien-t’ang and Overseas Students.

9. Ideals and Realities of the Culture Society.

10. “What’s Wrong about Becoming a Japanese?”.

11. Division in Prosperity.

12. Taiwan Communist Party and its Counterparts

in Japan and China.

13. Criticisms and Evaluations of the

Two Japanese Scholars.

14. Agonizing while Transfiguring.



Chapter 7 ALL-OUT CONFRONTATION WITH THE CHINESE

—Kuomintang period (1945-1963)

1.?? ?Dogs Gone; Pigs Come.

2. The Great 2.28 Rebellion.

3. The League for Re-liberation of Taiwan in Hong Kong.

4. Fleeing to Taiwan.

5. Great Oppression and Wu Kuo-chen’s Downfall.

6. A Refugee Regime; A House of Contradictions.

7. Land Reform in Disguise.

8. The Trick of “Counterattack”.

9. An Ugly Face behind the Mask.

10. Ultimate Struggle.

11. Lei Chen and Opposition Party Movement.

12. Overseas Independence Movements.

13. Between the United States and the Kuomintang Regime.

14. Between Chinese Communists and the Kuomintang.



Chapter 8 FROM 1960’s to 1970’s

—1964~

1. Harassed from Within and Without.

2. The Vietnam War and the Cultural Revolution.

3. The Advance of Japanese Capital in Taiwan.

4. Chiang Ching-kuo and the P’eng Ming-min Incident.

Concluding Chapter Taiwan’s Independence

THE HISTORY OF TAIWAN SINCE 1970 ONWARD / Ong Meiri

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE / SHIMAMURA Yasuharu

CHRONOLOGY

INDEX

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　　Taiwan, O My Homeland

　　Taiwan, O my Homeland,

　　The soil I live and die on,

　　Where ten million of my fellow countrymen

　　With me forever share every joy and grief.

　　Every drop of blood, sweat and tears

　　Shed over the soil had my ancestors,

　　Solely in search of good fortune.

　　Let be past our humiliation-stained past

　　Let us pry open afresh today

　　A wholly new history of our own