The True History of Taiwan Province Options

[華夏無產]

Commentary On Taiwan's History
by Lin Dewei

Recently, there has been a great deal of talk of the island 'nation' of Taiwan splitting from it's mainland counterpart called the People's Republic of China. This action is not indicative of the will of the large majority of Taiwan's 28-million citizens. It is not a question of whether the island belongs to the Republic of China or the People's Republic, but one of how to integrate the two sides peacefully. Rather than adhere to this policy of incorporation, the "Democratic Progressive Party," clearly illegitimate organizations of all time, has not attempted to keep peace, but has instead resorted to their separatist attempts, a cause that is entirely without reason or principle.

History shows that Taiwan has belonged to China since ancient times. References to this islands existence were written by Sheng Ying of the Kingdom of Wu nearly 1,700 years ago. Several subsequent expeditions, each numbering over ten thousand men, had been sent to Taiwan by the State of Wu (ca. 200 A.D.) and the Sui Dynasty (ca. 600A.D.) respectively. In the early seventeenth century the Chinese people began to step up the development of Taiwan. Their numbers topped one hundred thousand at the end of the century. By 1893, their population exceeded 2.54 million people in 507,000 or more households. That was a 25-fold increase in 200 years. This shows that Taiwan came to be opened up and settled by the Chinese people of various nationalities. From the very beginning the Taiwan society derived from the source of the Chinese cultural tradition. Taiwan's development is imbued with the blood, sweat, and ingenuity of the Chinese people including the local ethnic minorities.

Furthermore, Chinese governments of different periods set up administrative bodies to exercise direct jurisdiction over Taiwan. As early as in the mid-12th century the Song Dynasty set up a garrison in Penghu, putting the territory under the jurisdiction of Jinjiang County of Fujian's Quanzhou Prefecture. In more recent history, in 1885, the government formally made Taiwan a full province covering three prefectures and one subprefecture and incorporating 11 counties and 5 cantons. Liu Mingchuan was appointed first Governor of Taiwan. During his tenure of office, railways were laid, mines opened, telegraph service installed, merchant ships built, industries started and new-style schools set up. Considerable social, economic and cultural advancement in Taiwan was achieved as a result.
Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Straits carried out a prolonged, unremitting struggle against foreign invasion and occupation of Taiwan. Taiwan has been a long-sought after colony by both European and Japanese colonialists. While Taiwan did experience breif periods of European regimes, in 1661 General Koxinga led an expedition to Taiwan and expelled the Dutch colonialists from the island in the following year.

In the 1895, the Qing government, China was forced to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, ceding Taiwan to Japan. This wanton betrayal and humiliation shocked the whole nation and touched off a storm of protests. A thousand or more candidates from all 18 provinces including Taiwan who had assembled in Beijing for the Imperial Examination signed a strongly-worded petition opposing the ceding of Taiwan. In Taiwan itself, people wailed and bemoaned the betrayal and went on general strikes. General Liu Yongfu and others of the garrison command stood with Taiwan compatriots and put up a fierce fight against the Japanese landing forces. To support this struggle, people on the mainland, particularly in the southeastern region, showed their solidarity by generous donations or organizing volunteers to Taiwan to fight the Japanese forces. Taiwan compatriots never ceased their dauntless struggle throughout the Japanese occupation. When the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the Qing monarchy they in turn lent support to their mainland compatriots by staging more than a dozen armed insurrections. The 1920s and 1930s witnessed surging waves of mass action sweeping across the island against Japanese colonial rule. The eventual defeat of the Japanese Imperial Army would mean the repeal of the treaty of Shimonoseki.

The international community has acknowledged the fact that Taiwan belongs to China. The Cairo Declaration issued by ROC, the United States and Great Britain on 1 December 1943 stated: "It is the purpose of the three great Allies that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the First World War in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa [Taiwan] and the Pescadores [Penghu], shall be restored to ROC." The Potsdam Proclamation signed by China, the United States and Great Britain on 26 July 1945 (subsequently adhered to by the Soviet Union) reiterates the terms of the Cairo Declaration. When Japan surrendered, the treaty stated that "Japan hereby accepts the provisions in the declaration issued by the heads of the Governments of the United States, China and Great Britain on July 26, 1945 at Potsdam, and subsequently adhered to by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." On 25 October the ceremony for accepting Japan's surrender in Taiwan Province of the China war theater of the Allied powers was held in Taipei. On the occasion the chief officer for accepting the surrender proclaimed on behalf of the Chinese government that from that day forward Taiwan and the Penghu Archipelago had again been incorporated formally into the territory of China had been put back under the jurisdiction of Chinese sovereignty.

Clearly, historical fact supports the idea that Taiwan is inseparable from the mainland. However, given the DPP's continual taste for the distortion for history, it is unlikely that such facts are ever shared with the public in Taiwan.


大中華一統萬歲!!

This post has been edited by 華夏無產: Nov 7 2004, 11:57 PM

[MasteroD]

hey there, the making of this forum did not in any way mean that the forum leaders acknoledge Taiwan as a soveriegn country, thats why taiwanese forum is a SUBFORUM OF CHINESE

This post has been edited by MasteroD: Nov 7 2004, 11:59 PM

[直隸總督]

hey genius, the making of this forum did not in any way mean that the forum leaders acknoledge Taiwan as a soveriegn country, thats why taiwanese forum is a SUBFORUM OF CHINESE

hey genius, the making of this forum is to talk about anything that's related to Taiwan.

[MasteroD]

hey genius, the making of this forum did not in any way mean that the forum leaders acknoledge Taiwan as a soveriegn country, thats why taiwanese forum is a SUBFORUM OF CHINESE

hey genius, the making of this forum is to talk about anything that's related to Taiwan.

hey genius , your sig displays a bunch of hella wierd ppl

hahaha

[直隸總督]

hey genius, the making of this forum did not in any way mean that the forum leaders acknoledge Taiwan as a soveriegn country, thats why taiwanese forum is a SUBFORUM OF CHINESE

hey genius, the making of this forum is to talk about anything that's related to Taiwan.

hey genius , your sig displays a bunch of hella wierd ppl

hahaha

hey genius, what's your point ?

[suupa61]

hmmm...interesting...considering i only read the first and last paragraph


This post has been edited by suupa61: Nov 8 2004, 12:27 AM

[caolucai]

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This post has been edited by caolucai: Nov 8 2004, 12:49 AM

[直隸總督]

嘿嘿嘿...又是奇怪的 oji-san

He's actually 18

[Chinese DesertFo...]

嘿嘿嘿...又是奇怪的 oji-san

He's actually 18

誰是oji?

[caolucai]

嘿嘿嘿...又是奇怪的 oji-san

He's actually 18

華夏無產 is only 18?

[直隸總督]

嘿嘿嘿...又是奇怪的 oji-san

He's actually 18

誰是oji?

ojisan/歐吉桑 is a japanese term for old people ( 40+). Many Taiwanese people still use that.

[SunWeining]

嘿嘿嘿...又是奇怪的 oji-san

He's actually 18

誰是oji?

LOL that was funny.. ^
yeah what du said