Ohh...so you chose to stay awhile! Hey, do you have any idea what you're doing in here? Well, I tell you what, me too (LOL). But I want to go on anyway cause it's a compromise - we both are already here now and I can't bear to disappoint you while you're here. I also guess that if you were curious enough to have clicked your mouse button once more to get to this page, then I bet you somewhat, somehow, would like to know some stuff about Taiwan for whatever purpose you may have in mind. Well if that is the case, let's just go for it.
Taiwan is a beautiful island home to over twenty million Chinese of various ethnic and provincial backgrounds. Taiwan was a protectorate of the Chinese Empire in 1206 and became a separate province of China in 1885.
The Dutch invaded Taiwan in 1624 and remained as colonists for 37 years. The Spanish invaded Taiwan in 1626, but were driven out by the Dutch in 1642. Taiwan was restored to Mainland China rule in the Ming dynasty (1661) after the victory war by General Cheng, Cheng-Kung. Japanese occupied Taiwan from 1895 until the end of World War II in 1945.
The Republic of China (ROC) was established in 1911.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founding father, created a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people'" to replace the Ching dynasty. The nationalist government moved to Taiwan in 1949 and took effective jurisdiction over Taiwan, and the offshore island of Kinmen, Matsu and Penghu. It is in these areas the ROC has successfully demonstrated democracy and the free economy.
