Author: Andrade, Tonio.
Title: How Taiwan became Chinese. Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century.
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, [2009]. XIX,300 pp. Orig. hardcover (gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine), d./j. 8vo. - Two corners with very light shelfwear (very sl. bumped).This work describes how Europeans succeeded in establishing colonies around the world not because of technological superiority, but because their states sponsored overseas colonialism while Asian states did not. This book shows how European trade, protection, and occupation played a central role in the colonization of Taiwan and its incorporation into the Chinese empire. - Text in English.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia China Taiwan V.O.C. Dutch East India Company Etnografie Azië Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie