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 | How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (Gutenberg-e) (1st Edition) by Tonio Andrade Hardcover, 324 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-231-12855-X / 023112855X ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12855-1 / 9780231128551 At the beginning of the 1600s, Taiwan was a sylvan backwater, sparsely inhabited by headhunters and visited mainly by pirates and fishermen. By the end of the century it was home to more than a hundred thousand Chinese colonists, who grew rice and sugar for export on world markets. This book examine | |