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This is a timeline of Taiwanese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Taiwan and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Taiwan and History of the Republic of China. See also the list of rulers of Taiwan
"The Eyes of the Era Photographer Chang Chao-tang," Taiwan Panorama, January 2003 "Image and Representation: Special Photo Collections of Taiwan during Japanese Colonial Era," Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, November 28, 2012 "Images of colonial Taiwan are available free online," Duke University Libraries blog, October 1, 2009
In the Late Pleistocene, sea levels were about 140 metres (460 ft) lower than at present, exposing the floor of the shallow Taiwan Strait as a land bridge. [6] A concentration of vertebrate fossils has been found in the channel between the Penghu Islands and Taiwan, including a partial jawbone designated Penghu 1, apparently belonging to a previously unknown species of genus Homo, dated ...
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Wood carving has a long history on Taiwan. After the deforestation of much of Taiwan’s camphor forests a local industry emerged of excavating and then carving the remaining tree stumps. [29] The town of Sanyi, Miaoli is the current center of the Taiwanese wood carving industry. Many of the wood carvers in Sanyi are concentrated on Shuimei ...
However, over the course of three centuries of Han Chinese migrations to Taiwan, the distinctive cultures gradually disappeared, creating an integrated cultural blend. The 1620s saw a major turning point in Taiwan's cultural history due to the introduction of the Sinckan Manuscripts. The written language was brought to Taiwan by Dutch ...
The National Museum of Taiwan History (NMTH; traditional Chinese: 國立臺灣歷史博物館; simplified Chinese: 国立台湾历史博物馆; pinyin: Guólì Táiwān Lìshǐ Bówùguǎn) is a museum in Annan District, Tainan, Taiwan, covering the history of the island nation of Taiwan and its associated islands.
Prior to the Japanese colonial period, the histories of Taiwan were written by Taiwanese in the traditional Chinese historiographical style, mostly continuing the Qing government's habit of compiling the local chronicles, but after the cession of Taiwan in the Yi-Wei, these Taiwanese literati turned to a Taiwan-based writing structure, of which Lian Heng's General History of Taiwan is an example.