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HST303 L15 T
China, Japan & East Asia in World History - Lecture 15: Taiwan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| After the Chinese mainland became communist, Taiwan continued to call itself the_____ _____ _____. | Republic of China |
| Taiwan as the Republic of China still used the original _____ _____ beginning in 1912 with the founding of the Republic. | republican calendar |
| Taiwan as the Republic of China used the _____ _____ as the national flag. | republican flag |
| Historically, Taiwan had been inhabited by various aboriginal tribes, who today only make up about __% of the population. | 2 |
| The _____ _____ _____ were very difficult to navigate. | Straits of Taiwan |
| The Island of Taiwan had a lot of very challenging terrain, which made it not very desirable for _____ _____ from the mainland. | early settlers |
| The _____ briefly maintained an outpost on Taiwan from 1624 – 1662. | Dutch |
| The Dutch were driven out by Chinese _____. | pirates |
| In 1683 the _____ dynasty defeated the pirates, and Taiwan became part of the Chinese empire for the first time. | Qing |
| Most immigrants to Taiwan then came from the adjacent _____ province. They spoke the Southern Min dialect, which is now known as Taiwanese, and today they make up about ¾ of Taiwan’s population. | Fujinan |
| Hakka Chinese immigrants from southern _____ province make up about 10% of the population. The dialect they speak is also called Hakka. | Guangdong |
| After China was defeated in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895, _____ took over Taiwan as a colony. | Japan |
| After WWII, Taiwan was returned to _____. | China |
| In 1949 Chiang Kai-Sheck and about 2 million republican _____ set up camp in Taiwan. | refugees |
| Until ____ Taiwan/the Republic did not officially recognize the PRC. | 1990 |
| Since both the PRC and the Republic of China on Taiwan claimed to be the _____ _____ _____ of China, other countries could only recognize one or the other, and most eventually chose the PRC. | sole legal government |
| The U.S. switched its recognition from Taiwan to the PRC in ____. | 1979 |
| This left the Republic of China on Taiwan at least formally _____ isolated, but they had many informal relationships with the rest of the world and countries that officially recognized the PRC. | diplomatically |
| Taiwan became one of the so-called “East-Asian _____ _____”. | economic miracles |
| The government introduced the New Taiwan Dollar (NT) and took measures to control _____ and to put an end to black marketeering. | inflation |
| Inflation went down from __% in 1949 to 8.8% in 1952. | 3000 |
| Taiwan’s way to _____ success was quite different from, for example, the Japanese way. | economic |
| Most of Taiwan’s economy was based on small, independent, often _____-_____ firms, most with fewer than 50 employees. | family-run |
| Taiwan’s small firms began to focus mainly on _____ _____. | information technology |
| Taiwan’s small firms outsourced much of the _____ process to cheaper-labor factories in the PRC. | manufacturing |
| Taiwan became the major source of _____ _____ in the PRC after Hong Kong was returned to the PRC in 1997. | foreign investment |
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