History of Japan's colonial rule over Taiwan for fifty years

Author: Chen Xiaochong
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: From 1895 to 1945, Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule for 50 years. The Japanese colonial authorities established a governorship autocratic regime in Taiwan, built a tight police network, revived the feudal baojia system, controlled Taiwan's economic lifelines, suppressed Chinese culture, and introduced Japanese culture. They attempted to assimilate the Taiwanese people into a distorted form of Japanese. The Taiwanese people suffered from national discrimination, had no political rights, were heavily exploited economically, and were treated as second-class citizens. To resist Japanese colonial rule, the Taiwanese people waged an indomitable struggle until Taiwan was liberated and returned to the embrace of the motherland.