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Major events since the end of World War II

Oct. 1945:
Chiang-Kai-shek's troops occupy Taiwan
Feb. 1947:
"February 28th Incident"
May 1949:
Martial law declared
Apr. 1952:
San Francisco Peace treaty
Feb. 1972:
Shanghai Communiqué
Dec. 1979:
Kaohsiung Incident
Sep. 1986:
DPP founded
July 1987:
Martial Law lifted
Dec. 1992:
First democratic legislative elections
Mar. 1996:
First presidential elections
Mar. 2000:
DPP's Chen Shui-bian wins presidency

For news and events in recent years:
Overview 2006,
Overview 2005,
Overview 2004,
Overview 2003,
Overview 2002,
Overview 2001,
Overview 2000,
Overview 1999,
Overview 1998,
Overview 1997,
or the Overview 1995 - 1996

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History Books & References

Early period through 1895

New books

Formosa under the Dutch, by the Reverend William Campbell. Published by Kegan Paul, Trubner & Co., London, 1903. Republished in 1987 by SMC Publishing, Taipei.

The Island of Formosa, Past and Present, by James W. Davidson. Published by Macmillan & Co., London 1903. Republished in 1988 by SMC Publishing, Taipei.

Taiwan's 400 Year History, The Origins and Continuing Development of the Taiwanese Society and People, by Su Bing. Published by the Taiwanese Cultural Grassroots Association, Washington, 1986.

Taiwan History, by Kiyoshi Ito, edited by Walter Chen (illustrated HTML with commentary)

Out of China, A history of seventeenth-century Taiwan, by Macabe Keliher. SMC Publishing, Taipei, 2003.

Taiwan's Imagined Geography, Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, by Emma Jinhua Teng Published by Harvard Univeristy East Asia Center, Cambridge MA and London, 2004.

Forbidden Nation , A History of Taiwan, by Jonathan Manthorpe. Published by Palgrave MacMillan, New York NY, 2005.

The Spanish Experience in Taiwan, 1626-1642 , The Baroque ending of a Renaissance endeavor, by José Eugenio Borao Mateo. Published by the Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, October 2009.

How Taiwan Became Chinese , Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, by Tonio Andrade. Published by Columbia University Press and Gutenberg-e, New York NY, 2006.


Japanese Period (1895-1945)

Formosa, Licensed Revolution and the Home Rule Movement, 1895-1945, by George H. Kerr. Published by The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1974.

The Chinese Communist Party and the Status of Taiwan, 1928-1943, by Frank Hsiao and Larry R. Sullivan, 1979. Pacific Affairs, 52(3), pp. 446-467.


Post World War II / February 28th 1947 Massacre

Formosa Betrayed, by George H. Kerr. Published by Houghton Miflin Co., New York, 1965. Republished in 1992 by Taiwan Publishing Co., Irvine, CA. (PDF version)

Formosa Calling, An Eyewitness Account of Conditions in Taiwan During the February 28th 1947 Incident, by Allan J. Shackleton. Published by Taiwan Publishing Company and Taiwan Communiqué, Chevy Chase, 1998.

The Politics of Formosan Nationalism, Douglas Mendel, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1970.

Formosa Today, by Mark Mancall. Published by Praeger, 1964.

The Soong Dynasty, by Sterling Seagrave. Published by Harper & Rowe, New York, 1985.

Fires of the Dragon, Politics, Murder, and the Kuomintang, by David E. Kaplan. Published by Atheneum, New York, 1992.


US-China-Taiwan relations (1970s - present)

The Coming Conflict with China, by Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro. Published by Alfred A. Knopff, New York, 1997.

Crisis in the Taiwan Strait, edited by James R. Lilley and Chuck Downs. Published by the National Defense University Press, Washington 1997.

About Face, A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton, by James Mann. Published by Alfred A. Knopff, New York, 1999.

A Great Wall, Six Presidents and China, an Investigative History, by Patrick Tyler. Published by The Century Foundation, New York, 1999.

The New Chinese Empire, and what it means for the United States, by Ross Terrill. Published by Basic Books, New York, 2003.

Beyond Tiananmen, The Politics of U.S.-China Relations, by Robert L. Suettinger. Published by The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 2003.

China Hands, Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage,and Diplomacy in Asia, by James Lilley. Published by Public Affairs, New York NY, 2004.

At Cross Purposes, US-Taiwan Relations since 1942, by Richard C. Bush. Published by M.E. Sharpe, Armonk NY, 2004.

Rethinking "One China" , edited by John J. Tkacik Jr. Published by the Heritage Foundation, Washington DC, 2004.

Thunder from the Silent Zone , Rethinking China, by Paul Monk. Published by Scribe Publications, Australia, 2005.

Untying the knot , Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait, by Richard C. Bush. Published by Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2005.

Reshaping the Taiwan Strait , edited by John J. Tkacik Jr. Published by the Heritage Foundation, Washington DC, 2007.

The China Fantasy: How our leaders explain away Chinese Repression, by James Mann. Published by Viking Press / Penguin Group, New York, NY, 2007. (Reviewd in Taiwan Communiqué no. 112)

Taiwan, The Struggles of a Democracy, by Jerome F. Keating. Published by SMC Publishing Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, 2006. (Reviewd in Taiwan Communiqué no. 110)

Reshaping the Taiwan Strait , edited by John J. Tkacik Jr. Published by the Heritage Foundation, Washington DC, 2007. (Reviewd in Taiwan Communiqué no. 111)

The China Fantasy: How our leaders explain away Chinese Repression, by James Mann. Published by Viking Press / Penguin Group, New York, NY, 2007. (Reviewd in Taiwan Communiqué no. 112)

Legitimacy, Meaning, and Knowledge in the making of Taiwanese identity, by Mark Harrison. Published by Palgrave MacMillan, New York, NY, 2006. (Reviewd in Taiwan Communiqué no. 113)

Taiwan: the threatened democracy, by Bruce Herschensohn. Published by World Ahead Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, 2006.(Reviewd in Taiwan Communiqué no. 115)


Legal status

Formosa, China, and the United Nations, by Lung-chu Chen and Harold D. Lasswell. Published by St. Martin Press, 1967.

Who owns Taiwan: a search for international title, by Lung-chu Chen and W.M. Reisman of The Yale Law School. Yale Law Journal, Volume 81, Number 4, March 1972.

Taiwan's Case for United Nations Membership, by Parris Chang and Kokui Lim. Published in UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Fall/Winter 1996-97.

Taiwan's international status, History and Theory. Vision Taiwan series no. 1. Published by Taiwan Advocates , Taipei, Taiwan, 2005.


Transition to Democracy / Future

A Taste of Freedom, Memoirs of a Formosan Independence Leader , by Peng Ming-min. Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1972.

Taiwan's Future, edited by Yung-hwan Jo. Published by The Union Research Institute for the Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1974.

The Future of Taiwan, a Difference of Opinion. Edited by Victor H. Li. Published by M.E. Sharpe, White Plains, NY, 1980.

Taiwan at the Crossroads, Human Rights, Political Development and Social Change on the Beautiful Island, by Marc J. Cohen. Published by the Asia Resource Center, Washington, 1988.

Let Taiwan be Taiwan, Documents on the International Status of Taiwan, edited with analysis and commentary by Marc J. Cohen and Emma Teng, Center for Taiwan International Relations, Washington, D.C. 1990.

The Unknown Taiwan, by Marc J. Cohen. Published by North American Taiwanese Women's Association, Washington, D.C. 1992.

The Hakka Odyssey, and their Taiwan homeland, by Clyde Kiang. Published by Allegheny Press, Elgin, PA, 1992.

New Taiwan, New China, Taiwan's changing role in the Asia-Pacific region, by Gary Klintworth. Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1995.

Taiwan, a new history, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor. Published by M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 1998.

Island in the Stream, A quick case study of Taiwan's complex history, by April C.J. Lin and Jerome F. Keating. Published by SMC Publishing, Taipei, 2000.

Memories of the Future, National identity issues and the search for a New Taiwan, Stéphane Corcuff, Editor. Published by M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2002.

Taiwan, a political history, by Denny Roy. Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2003.

Is Taiwan Chinese?, a History of Taiwan Nationality by Hsueh Hua-yuan, Tai Pao-tsun and Chow Mei-li. Published by Taiwan Advocates , Taipei, Taiwan, 2005.

Taiwan, The Struggles of a Democracy, by Jerome F. Keating. Published by SMC Publishing Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, 2006.

Legitimacy, Meaning, and Knowledge in the making of Taiwanese identity, by Mark Harrison. Published by Palgrave MacMillan, New York, NY, 2006.

Taiwan: the threatened democracy, by Bruce Herschensohn. Published by World Ahead Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, 2006.(Reviewd in Taiwan Communiqué no. 115)