Name: Taiwanese History in a Rush - Best for Tourists丨Hack It Formosa 001 - Storyteller of Taiwan
Uploaded: 2020-10-10T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 2 min 48 s
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Every day we walk through Taipei with travelers from all over the world.

They either don't know much about Taiwan or often see Taiwan as a mysterious island.

Today we invite seven of our tour guides to play a game - introducing Taiwanese history within three minutes.

Taiwan has been colonized by many different countries.

To begin with, it all started from the word — Formosa.

In 16th century, a bunch of Portuguese sailors passed Taiwan and said "Ilha Formosa."

They came, they saw, but they didn't conquer.

Before that, we already had aboriginal people live in Taiwan for thousands of years.

But thanks to those Portuguese sailors, Taiwan was put on the map.

The first foreign country to come to Taiwan, there were the Dutch in the 17th century.

But sadly for them, here came the Spanish two years later.

Two European countries on one tiny small island.

After 20 years, Spanish was kicked out by Dutch.

And after 20 years, the Dutch was kicked out by Ming dynasty of China.

And after 20 years, the Ming dynasty of China was kicked out by Qing dynasty of China.

It was the longest period in Taiwanese history.

Since that time, so many Chinese immigrants started to move to Taiwan, including my grandfather's grandfather.

So as you all know, Qing dynasty was going downhill, and it was also when Taiwan was invaded by Japanese several times.

So finally in 1895, Japan was the winner between the war of Qing dynasty and Japan.

After WWII, Taiwan was handed back to China, which was under the Republic of China.

However, at that time China was going through the civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists.

The nationalists who were the Republic of China knew that they were going to lose the war so they relocated to Taiwan.

On the other hand, the Communists established the People's Republic of China and stayed in mainland China.

Therefore, since then, there has been two China in the world and it is still an unresolved and controversial issue nowadays.

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