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1990 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Taiwan
Author : Georg Sørensen
Published in: Democracy, Dictatorship and Development
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Taiwan (the Republic of China) was incorporated in the Chinese empire by the mid-seventeenth century. Before then it had been controlled by the Dutch as one of many stations in Holland’s global network of trade. Sugar and deerskin from the island, produced by the Malayo-Polynesian aborigines or by mainland Chinese brought in by the Dutch, were exported and goods were trans-shipped between China, Japan, and Europe (Gold 1986:23n.).