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Enterprise and Society 2009 10(4):868-870; doi:10.1093/es/khp060
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Tonio Andrade. How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century
Tonio Andrade. How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xix + 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-12855-1, $60.00 (cloth); 978-0-231-50368-6 (e-book)
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As Taiwan tends to be overshadowed by its powerful Asian neighbors, China and Japan, its historiography has also been dominated by China- or Japan-centric perspectives. Tonio Andrade's How Taiwan Became Chinese, however, considers the history of Taiwan before it became embroiled in the tug-of-war between China and Japan in the early twentieth century. Andrade describes Taiwan in the seventeenth century as a land populated by aborigines who hunted deer to meet their own needs and engaged in small-scale trade with the outside world. The lack of interest
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