Between a "ROC" and a Hard Place with Xiangyu part 1

Today, we have Taiwanese rapper Xiangxu here to talk to us about the past 100 years of Taiwanese history. <br/><br/>1:00 - What is Taiwan?<br/><br/>4:38 - Dutch East Indies Company&#8217;s role in Taiwan<br/><br/>7:00 - How Japan Annexed Taiwan under the Qing Dynasty.<br/><br/>10:33 - Kominka Movement: Japanesization of Taiwan<br/><br/>15:12 - Chinese Civil War<br/><br/>17:00 - KMT&#8217;s rise to power in Taiwan<br/><br/>18:00 - The Retrocession Process<br/><br/>20:13 - The 228 incident<br/><br/>23:24 - Taiwan&#8217;s Martial Law period which lasted for 37 years<br/><br/>29:33 - KMT&#8217;s White Terror<br/><br/>32:33 - How the US government stopped the PLA from uniting Taiwan<br/><br/>40:18 - &#8220;Almost colonial government&#8221;<br/><br/>48:00 - China and Taiwan and a conundrum <br/><br/>Get full access to Historic.ly at <a href="https://historicly.substack.com/subscribe?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjI3OTU2LCJpYXQiOjE2MjkxNjUzMzAsImV4cCI6MTYzMTc1NzMzMCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTgwNzkiLCJzdWIiOiJjaGVja291dCJ9.Sxu98W7QscBE0qqPnAJ8ygh7s4pTD-bUh5wUUCoNeBA&#38;utm_medium=podcast">historicly.substack.com/subscribe</a>