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Formosa
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 16, 2021, 3:17 am
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OLD CONTENT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Formosa#Background
[quote]The Dutch East India Company tried to use military force
to make China open up a port in Fujian to trade and demanded
that China expel the Portuguese, whom the Dutch were fighting in
the Dutch–Portuguese War, from Macau. The Dutch raided Chinese
shipping after 1618 and took junks hostage in an unsuccessful
attempt to get China to meet their demands.[4][5][6]
In 1622, after another unsuccessful Dutch attack on Macau (trade
post of Portugal from 1557), the fleet sailed to the Pescadores,
this time intentionally, and proceeded to set up a base there at
Makung. They built a fort there with forced labour recruited
from the local Chinese population. Their oversight was
reportedly so severe and rations so short that 1,300 of the
1,500 Chinese enslaved died in the process of construction.[7]
The same year a ship named the Golden Lion (Dutch: Gouden Leeuw)
was wrecked at Lamey just off the southwest coast of Formosa;
the survivors were slaughtered by the native inhabitants.[8] The
following year, 1623, Dutch traders in search of an Asian base
first arrived on the island, intending to use the island as a
station for Dutch commerce with Japan and the coastal areas of
China.
The Dutch demanded that China open up ports in Fujian to Dutch
trade. China refused, warning the Dutch that the Pescadores were
Chinese territory. The Chinese Governor of Fujian (Fukien),
Shang Zhouzuo (Shang Chou-tso), demanded that the Dutch withdraw
from the Pescadores to Formosa, where the Chinese would permit
them to engage in trade. This led to a war between the Dutch and
China between 1622-1624 which ended with the Chinese being
successful in making the Dutch abandon the Pescadores and
withdraw to Formosa.[9][10] The Dutch threatened that China
would face Dutch raids on Chinese ports and shipping unless the
Chinese allowed trading on the Pescadores and that China not
trade with Manila but only with the Dutch in Batavia and Siam
and Cambodia. However, the Dutch found out that, unlike tiny
Southeast Asian Kingdoms, China could not be bullied or
intimidated by them. After Shang ordered them to withdraw to
Formosa on 19 September 1622, the Dutch raided Amoy on October
and November.[11] The Dutch intended to "induce the Chinese to
trade by force or from fear." by raiding Fujian and Chinese
shipping from the Pescadores.[12] Long artillery batteries were
erected at Amoy in March 1622 by Colonel Li-kung-hwa as a
defence against the Dutch.[13]
...
Early years (1624–1625)[edit]
Taiwan's southwest was already home to a Chinese population
numbering close to 15,000 before 1623 when the Dutch first
came.[20]
On deciding to set up in Taiwan and in common with standard
practice at the time, the Dutch built a defensive fort to act as
a base of operations. This was built on the sandy peninsula of
Tayouan[21] (now part of mainland Taiwan, in current-day Anping
District). This temporary fort was replaced four years later by
the more substantial Fort Zeelandia.[22]
Growing control, pacification of the aborigines
(1626–1636)[edit]
The first order of business was to punish villages that had
violently opposed the Dutch and unite the aborigines in
allegiance with the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The first
punitive expedition was against the villages of Bakloan and
Mattau, north of Saccam near Tayowan. The Mattau campaign was
easier than expected, and the tribe submitted after having their
village razed by fire. The campaign also served as a threat to
other villages from Tirosen (Chiayi) to Longkiau
(Hengchun).[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamey_Island_massacre#Punitive_expedition_
campaigns
[quote]Putmans was determined to assault Lamey as soon as
possible, at one stage requesting that the warriors of Mattau
assist them in punishing the islanders.[2] The first expedition
arrived in 1633, led by Claes Bruijn and consisting of 250 Dutch
soldiers, forty Han Chinese pirates and 250 Aboriginal
Formosans.[1] It met with little success, but they did manage to
find evidence of the murdered crew of the Beverwijck, including
coins, copper from the ship's galley and a Dutch hat.[1] They
also learned that a large cave on the island was used by the
natives as a refuge in times of trouble.
In 1636, a larger expedition under Jan Jurriansz van Lingga
landed on the island, this time chasing the Lameyans into the
cave. The Dutch and their allies proceeded to block up all the
entrances, leaving small holes where pans of burning pitch and
sulphur were placed. Some of the trapped Lameyans managed to
crawl out of the holes, where they were captured by the Dutch
force. On May 4, after the poisonous fumes had been constantly
produced for eight days (during which the cries of those inside
could be clearly heard), the cave grew still and the entrances
were unblocked. When soldiers entered to investigate, they found
the corpses of around 300 men, women and children who had been
suffocated by the fumes.[1]
...
The captured men of the island were put to work as slaves in
both Taiwan and Batavia. The women and children were put up in
the homes of Dutch people in Taiwan as servants; some later
became wives for Dutch men.[1][/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_pacification_campaign_on_Formosa
[quote]By this stage, relations with the other villages had also
deteriorated to the extent that even Sinkan, previously thought
to be tightly bound to the Dutch, was plotting rebellion. The
missionary Robert Junius, who lived among the natives, wrote
that "rebels in Sinkan have conspired against our state . . .
and [are planning] to murder and beat to death the missionaries
and soldiers in Sinkan."[20] The governor in Tayouan moved
quickly to quell the uprising, sending eighty soldiers to the
village and arresting some of the key conspirators.[21] With
potential disaster averted in Sinkan, the Dutch were further
encouraged by the news that Mattau and Soulang, their principal
enemies, were being ravaged by smallpox, whereas Sinkan, now
back under Dutch control, was spared the disease – this being
viewed as a divine sign that the Dutch were righteous.[22]
On 22 November 1635, the newly arrived forces set out for
Bakloan, headed by Governor Putmans. Junius joined him with a
group of native warriors from Sinkan, who had been persuaded to
take part by the clergyman in order to further good relations
between themselves and the VOC.[23] The plan was initially to
rest there for the night, before attacking Mattau the next
morning, but the Dutch forces received word that the Mattau
villagers had learned of their approach and planned to flee.[23]
They therefore decided to press on and attack that evening,
succeeding in surprising the Mattau warriors and subduing the
village without a fight.[24] The Dutch summarily executed 26 men
of the village, before setting fire to the houses and returning
to Bakloan.[24]
...
After the victory over Mattau the governor decided to make use
of the soldiers to cow other recalcitrant villages, starting
with Taccariang, who had previously killed both VOC employees
and Sinkan villagers. The villagers first fought with the
Sinkanders who were acting as a vanguard, but on receiving a
volley from the Dutch musketeers the Taccariang warriors turned
and fled. The VOC forces entered the village unopposed, and
burnt it to the ground.[30] From Taccariang they moved on to
Soulang, where they arrested warriors who had participated in
the 1629 massacre of sixty Dutch soldiers and torched their
houses.[31] The last stop on the campaign trail was Tevorang,
which had previously sheltered wanted men from other villages.
This time the governor decided to use diplomacy, offering gifts
and assurances of friendship, with the consequences of
resistance left implicit. The Tevorangans took the hint, and
offered no opposition to Dutch rule.[31]
...
In 1629, the third governor of Dutch Formosa, Pieter Nuyts,
dispatched 63 Dutch soldiers to Mattau with the excuse of
"arresting Chinese pirates". The effort was impeded by the local
indigenous Taivoan people, as they had been resentful at the
Dutch colonists who invaded and slaughtered many of their
people. On the way back, the 63 Dutch soldiers were drowned by
the indigenous people of Mattau, resulting in the retaliation of
Pieter Nuyts and later the Mattau Incident
(麻豆社事件) in 1635.[38]
On November 23, 1635, Nuyts led 500 Dutch soldiers and 500
Siraya soldiers from Sinckan to assail Mattau, killing 26 tribal
people and burning all the buildings in Mattau. On December 18,
Mattau surrendered and signed the Mattau Act
(麻豆條約) with the Dutch governor. In
this act, Mattau agreed to grant all the land inherited or
controlled and all the properties owned by the people of Mattau
to the Dutch.[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Huaiyi_rebellion
[quote]The revolt was led by Guo Huaiyi (Chinese:
郭懷一; 1603–1652), a sugarcane farmer and
militia leader originally from Quanzhou known to the Dutch by
the name Gouqua Faijit,[1] or Gouqua Faet.[2] After his planning
for an insurrection on 17 September 1652 was leaked to the Dutch
authorities,[3] he decided to waste no time in attacking Fort
Provintia, which at the time was only surrounded by a bamboo
wall. On the night of 7 September the rebels, mostly
peasants-farmers armed with bamboo spears, stormed the fort.[1]
The following morning a company of 120 Dutch musketeers came to
the rescue of their trapped countrymen, firing steadily into the
besieging rebel forces and breaking them.[1] Governor Nicolas
Verburg On 11 September the Dutch learned that the rebels had
massed just north of the principal Dutch settlement of Tayouan.
Sending a large force of Dutch soldiers and aboriginal warriors,
they met the rebels that day in battle and emerged victorious,
mainly due to the superior weaponry of the Europeans.[4]
Multiple Aboriginal villages in frontier areas rebelled against
the Dutch in the 1650s due to oppression like when the Dutch
ordered aboriginal women for sex, deer pelts, and rice be given
to them from aborigines in the Taipei basin in Wu-lao-wan
village which sparked a rebellion in December 1652 at the same
time as the Chinese rebellion. The Wu-lao-wan beheaded two Dutch
translators, and in a subsequent fight with 30 Wu-lao-wan two
Dutch people died, but after an embargo of salt and iron the
Wu-lao-wan were forced to sue for peace in February
1653.[5][/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosan_sika_deer
[quote]The VOC, operating from the port of Taoyuan (modern-day
Anping, Tainan) in southwestern Taiwan, established a trading
post whose main business was the export of sika skins to Europe.
During the six decades of Dutch activity two to four million
sika skins were exported to Europe.[1][2][/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Formosa
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 16, 2021, 3:17 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
And now the uplifting part of the story:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Zeelandia
[quote]The Siege of Fort Zeelandia of 1661–1662 ended the Dutch
East India Company's rule over Taiwan and began the Kingdom of
Tungning's rule over the island.
...
On 23 March 1661, Koxinga's fleet set sail from Jinmen with
hundreds of junks of various sizes, with roughly 25,000 soldiers
and sailors aboard. They arrived at Penghu the next day. On 30
March, a small garrison was left at Penghu while the main body
of the fleet left and arrived at Tayoan on April 2. On Baxemboy
Island in the Bay of Taiwan, unrelated to the siege, 2,000
Chinese attacked 240 Dutch musketeers, routing them.[12] After
passing through a shallow waterway unknown to the Dutch, they
landed at the bay of Lakjemuyse [zh].[13] Four Dutch ships
attacked the Chinese junks and destroyed several but one of
their own squadron was burnt by fire boats. The rest escaped
from the harbor, two to return, while the third sailed for
Batavia, not reaching her destination until after some fifty
days owing to the south monsoon. No further opposition was for
the time encountered. The remainder of Koxinga's men were safely
landed and built earthworks overlooking the plain.
...
"Koxinga was abundantly provided with cannons and ammunition . .
He had also two companies of 'Black-boys,' many of whom had been
Dutch slaves and had learned the use of the rifle and
musket-arms. These caused much harm during the war in Formosa."
On April 4, Valentyn surrendered to Koxinga's army after it laid
siege to Fort Provintia. The rapid assault had caught Valentyn
unprepared since he was under the impression that the fort was
under the protection of Fort Zeelandia. On April 7, Koxinga's
army surrounded Fort Zeelandia, sending the captured Dutch
priest Antonius Hambroek as emissary demanding the garrison's
surrender. However, Hambroek urged the garrison to resist
instead of surrender and was executed after returning to
Koxinga's camp. Koxinga ordered his artillery to advance and
used 28 cannons to bombard the fort.[21] Koxinga's fleet then
began a massive bombardment; troops on the ground attempted to
storm the fort, but were repulsed with considerable losses.
Koxinga then changed his tactics and laid siege to the fort.
On the 28th of May, news of the siege reached Jakarta, and the
Dutch East India Company dispatched a fleet of 10 ships and 700
sailors to relieve the fort. On July 5, the relief force arrived
and engaged in small scale confrontations with Koxinga's fleet.
On July 23, the two sides gave major battle as the Dutch fleet
attempted to break Koxinga's blockade. After a brief engagement,
the Dutch fleet was forced to retreat with two ships sunk, three
smaller vessels captured, and 130 casualties. A second,
ultimately unsuccessful attempt at relief was mounted in
October. The Chinese lured Dutch ships into a trap with a false
withdrawal and massacred the crew on board the Dutch ships and
used pikes to kill those who jumped overboard. The Chinese
caught Dutch grenades in nets and threw them back at the
Dutch.[22]
...
In the following December, deserting German mercenaries brought
Koxinga word of low morale among the garrison, and he launched a
major assault on the fort, which was ultimately repelled.[25] In
January 1662, a German sergeant named Hans Jurgen Radis defected
to give Koxinga critical advice on how to capture the fortress
from a redoubt whose strategic importance had gone hitherto
unnoticed by the Chinese forces. Koxinga followed his advice and
the Dutch redoubt fell within a day.
...
Torture was used by both sides in the war. One Dutch physician
carried out a vivisection on a Chinese prisoner.[29] The Chinese
amputated the genitals, noses, ears, and limbs of Dutch
prisoners while they were still alive and sent back the
mutilated corpses and prisoners to the Dutch.[30] Chinese rebels
had earlier cut the genitals, eyes, ears and noses of Dutch
people in the Guo Huaiyi rebellion.[31] The mouths of Dutch
soldiers were filled with their amputated genitals by the
Chinese who also slammed nails into their bodies, and amputated
their noses, legs and arms and sent the bodies of these Dutch
soldiers back to the fort.[32]
...
The Taiwanese aboriginal tribes, who were previously allied with
the Dutch against the Chinese during the Guo Huaiyi Rebellion in
1652, turned against the Dutch during the siege. They defected
to Koxinga's Chinese forces.[33] The aboriginals (Formosans) of
Sincan defected to Koxinga after he offered them amnesty. They
proceeded to work for the Chinese in executing captured
Dutchmen. On 17 May 1661, the frontier aboriginals in the
mountains and plains also surrendered and defected to the
Chinese. They celebrated their freedom from compulsory education
under the Dutch rule by hunting down Dutch colonists and
beheading them, while destroying their Christian school
textbooks.[34] Koxinga formulated a plan to give oxen, farming
tools, and teach farming techniques to the Taiwan Aboriginals.
He gave them Ming gowns and caps, provided feasts for chieftains
and gifted tobacco to Aboriginals who were gathered in crowds to
meet and welcome him as he visited their villages after he
defeated the Dutch.[35][/quote]
What makes this episode especially cool is that it was a
multiethnic anti-colonialist coalition - Chinese (Koxinga's
mother was Japanese), Tungning aboriginal and VOC-imported
"black" slaves - against their common Dutch colonizer.
Additionally, even some German mercenaries came to sympathize
with and assist the anti-colonialist forces. And, unlike the
Dutch who treated the locals as "non-whites", Koxinga saw the
Tungning aboriginals as fellow Ming folk. This is a good
historical example to learn from, as is Koxinga's personality:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koxinga
[quote]Koxinga, importantly, was mentally unstable, known to
have a vicious temper and tendency towards ordering executions.
...
Koxinga suffered from "depressive insanity" and mental illness
according to Dr. Li Yengyue.[/quote]
Furthermore, Koxinga demonstrates by his subsequent actions that
he also cared about opposing colonialists elsewhere:
[quote]In 1662, Koxinga's forces raided several towns in the
Philippines. Koxinga's chief adviser was an Italian friar named
Vittorio Riccio, whom he sent to Manila to demand tribute from
the colonial government of the Spanish East Indies, threatening
to attack the city if his demands were not met.[40] The Spanish
refused to pay the tribute and reinforced the garrisons around
Manila, but the planned attack never took place due to Koxinga's
sudden death in that year after expelling the Dutch on
Taiwan.[41]
Koxinga's threat to invade the islands and expel the Spanish was
an important factor in the Spanish failure to conquer the Muslim
Moro people in Mindanao. The threat of Chinese invasion forced
the Spanish to withdraw their forces to Manila, leaving some
troops in Jolo and by Lake Lanao to engage the Moro in
protracted conflict, while their fort on Zamboanga in Mindanao
was immediately evacuated following Koxinga's threats. The
Spanish were also forced to permanently abandon their colony in
the Maluku Islands (Moluccas) and withdraw their soldiers from
there to Manila.
Tonio Andrade judged that Koxinga would most likely have been
able to defeat the Spanish if the threatened invasion had taken
place.[42][/quote]
Sadly, Koxinga died too young. If he had lived, what is now the
"Philippines" might have become part of fledgling Kingdom of
Tungning:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Tungning
[quote]Koxinga instituted a tuntian policy in which soldiers
served the dual role of farmer when not assigned active duty in
a guard battalion. No effort was spared to ensure the successful
implementation of this policy to develop Taiwan into a
self-sufficient island, and a series of land and taxation
policies were established to encourage the expansion and
cultivation of fertile lands for increased food production
capabilities.[8] Lands held by the Dutch were immediately
reclaimed and ownership distributed amongst Koxinga's trusted
staff and relatives to be rented out to peasant farmers, whilst
properly developing other farmlands in the south and the
claiming, clearing, cultivating and of Aborigine lands to the
east was also aggressively pursued.[3] To further encourage
expansion into new farmlands, a policy of varying taxation was
implemented wherein fertile land newly claimed for the Zheng
regime would be taxed at a much lower rate than those reclaimed
from the Dutch, considered "official land".[8][/quote]
At least Koxinga's troops also contributed in Albazin:
[quote]Troops who specialized at fighting with rattan shields
and swords (Tengpaiying) 藤牌营 were
recommended to the Kangxi Emperor. Kangxi was impressed by a
demonstration of their techniques and ordered 500 of them to
reinforce the siege of Albazin against the Russians, under Ho
Yu, a former Koxinga follower, and Lin Hsing-chu, a former
General of Wu. Attacking from the water using only the rattan
shields and swords, these troops cut down Russian forces
traveling by rafts on the river, without suffering a single
casualty.[13][14][15][16][/quote]
but that's another story. Koxinga's routing of the Dutch alone
is inspiring enough:
[quote]Koxinga is worshiped as a god in coastal
China[clarification needed], especially Fujian, by overseas
Chinese in Southeast Asia and in Taiwan.[66] There is a temple
dedicated to Koxinga and his mother in Tainan City, Taiwan. The
National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, one of the most
prestigious universities in Taiwan, is named after him.
...
Tokugawa Japan imported books from Qing China including works on
the Zheng family. The Qing built a shrine to commemorate Koxinga
to counteract the Japanese and French in Taiwan in the 19th
century.[68] Zheng Juzhong's books Zheng Chenggong zhuan was
imported to Japan and reprinted in 1771.[69][70]
The play The Battles of Coxinga was written by Chikamatsu
Monzaemon in Japan in the 18th century, first performed in
Kyoto.[71][72] A 2001 film titled The Sino-Dutch War 1661
starred Vincent Zhao as Koxinga.[73] The film was renamed
Kokusenya Kassen after the aforementioned play and released in
Japan in 2002.
...
Koxinga is regarded as a hero in the People's Republic of China,
Taiwan, and Japan, but historical narratives regarding Koxinga
frequently differ in explaining his motives and affiliation.
Japan treats him as a native son and emphasized his maternal
link to Japan in propaganda during the Japanese occupation of
Taiwan.[74] The People's Republic of China considers Koxinga a
national hero for driving the imperialist Dutch away from Taiwan
and establishing ethnic Chinese rule over the island.[74] On
mainland China, Koxinga is honoured as the "Conqueror of Taiwan,
Great Rebel-Quelling General"[75] a military hero who brought
Taiwan back within the Han Chinese sphere of influence through
expanded economic, trade and cultural exchanges. In China,
Koxinga is honoured without the religious overtones found in
Taiwan.[76][clarification needed]
The Republic of China, which withdrew to Taiwan after losing the
Chinese Civil War, regards Koxinga as a patriot who also
retreated to Taiwan and used it as a base to launch
counterattacks against the Qing dynasty of mainland China. In
Taiwan, Koxinga is honored as the island’s most respected saint
for expelling the Dutch and seen as the original ancestor of a
free Taiwan, and is known as Kaishan Shengwang, or "the Sage
King who Opened up Taiwan"[76] and as "The Yanping Prince",[77]
referring to the Kingdom of Tungning, which he established in
modern-day Tainan.[/quote]
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Re: Formosa
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 16, 2021, 3:21 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
The Kingdom of Middag was a wholly indigenous polity that
resisted both Dutch colonial rule AND Koxinga's invasive force.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Middag
"In 1662, Ming loyalist Koxinga and his followers laid siege to
the Dutch outpost, and eventually established the Kingdom of
Tungning. Under the terms of the surrender, Koxinga took over
all the Dutch leases. On a constant war footing, and denied
maritime trade by the hostile Dutch-Qing alliance, the Kingdom
of Tungning intensively exploited these lands to feed their vast
army. This resulted in a number of brutally suppressed
rebellions by the indigenous population and a gradual weakening
of Middag.[1]"
Doesn't sound like a national liberator to me. It's unlikely he
would've seen the indigenous as equals.
Here are a number of descendants from the Middag tribes letting
us know Koxinga's true colors.
www.facebook.com/CTPIYA/videos/816705171794269/
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"The Kingdom of Middag was a wholly indigenous polity that
resisted both Dutch colonial rule AND Koxinga's invasive force."
Really? From your own first link:
[quote]After the Dutch conquered the Spanish colony in northern
Taiwan in 1642, they sought to establish control of the western
plains between the new possessions and their base at Tayouan
(modern Tainan). After a brief but destructive campaign, Pieter
Boon was able to subdue the tribes in this area in 1645.
Kamachat Aslamie, ruler of Middag, was given a cane as a symbol
of his local rule under Dutch overlordship.[/quote]
Sounds more like a colonial bootlicker to me. Koxinga was
perfectly justified in showing no respect for Middag, which, by
holding onto its (Dutch-approved) throne instead of surrendering
to Tungning, was in effect continuing to recognize Dutch
overlordship.
"It's unlikely he would've seen the indigenous as equals."
Repost:
[quote]The aboriginals (Formosans) of Sincan defected to Koxinga
after he offered them amnesty. They proceeded to work for the
Chinese in executing captured Dutchmen. On 17 May 1661, the
frontier aboriginals in the mountains and plains also
surrendered and defected to the Chinese. They celebrated their
freedom from compulsory education under the Dutch rule by
hunting down Dutch colonists and beheading them, while
destroying their Christian school textbooks.[34] Koxinga
formulated a plan to give oxen, farming tools, and teach farming
techniques to the Taiwan Aboriginals. He gave them Ming gowns
and caps, provided feasts for chieftains and gifted tobacco to
Aboriginals who were gathered in crowds to meet and welcome him
as he visited their villages after he defeated the
Dutch.[35][/quote]
"Here are a number of descendants from the Middag tribes letting
us know Koxinga's true colors."
Next you will ask the Kurds to let us know Saddam Hussein's true
colours.
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/kurds/
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Re: Turanian diffusion
By: antihellenistic Date: June 5, 2023, 2:06 am
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If you don't have time, read the words which given by red-color
bold
[quote]Racial harmony isn’t based on mercy but on equilibrium of
strength and power. Taiwan today is a 99% Han Chinese island.
But before 1683 it was mostly inhabited by Austronesians. In
1683 the Qing Empire conquered Taiwan, to consolidate its
control over the island, Qing organized mass immigration of Han
people from Fujian province to Taiwan. Guess what happened when
the early modern age Han met the Stone Age Austronesians? The
Han first dehumanized the Austronesians, calling them
生番 wild animals to justify the ensuing bloody mass
murder of the Taiwan aboriginals. Then the Han started hunting
down these Austronesians as trophies. They even boiled their
bones into medicated plasters to cure joint pain. Eventually the
Han almost completely wiped out the aboriginal Austronesians,
turning Taiwan into a 99% Han Island. You’ve never heard about
this exactly because this was probably the most thoroughly done
genocide in the history of mankind. Nobody is complaining about
muh 6 gorillion because they are all dead. The Han are not nice
people either. They will turn into the bloodiest murderers if
they meet a people 3 civilizational generations behind. Stone
Age people were not people, practically, when they met their
nemesis conquistadors.[/quote]
HTML https://twitter.com/Xongkuro/status/1665602527377719302
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Re: Formosa
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 5, 2023, 2:19 am
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Of course his description of events is inaccurate. In reality:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taiwan#Qing_dynasty_(1683%E2%80%931895)
[quote] At the conference in Fujian to determine Taiwan's
future, some officials from the central government advocated for
transporting all of Taiwan's inhabitants to the mainland and
abandoning the island.[165]
...
Shi argued that to abandon Taiwan would leave it open to other
enemies such as criminals, adventurers, and the Dutch. He
assured that defending Taiwan would not be cost exorbitant and
would only take 10,000 men, while garrisoned forces on the South
China coast could be reduced.
...
The overwhelmingly male migrants had few prospects in war-weary
Fujian and thus married locally, resulting in the idiom "has
Tangshan[a] father, no Tangshan mother" (Chinese:
有唐山公，無唐山
媽;
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ū Tn̂g-soaⁿ kong, bô
Tn̂g-soaⁿ má).[182][183] Marrying aboriginal women
was prohibited in 1737 on the grounds that it interfered in
aboriginal life and was used by settlers as a means to claim
aboriginal land.[184][185]
...
The Qing did little to administer the aborigines and rarely
tried to subjugate or impose cultural change upon them.
...
The Qianlong administration forbade enticing aborigines to
submit due to fear of conflict.[/quote]
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