#262 - Qing 7: Triple-Colonization

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

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Though the Japanese bow out of the race for Taiwan with the establishment of the Sakoku "Closed Country" laws, the Spanish set up shot on the northern shore in an effort to stymie Dutch efforts at Ft. Zeelandia in the south. Of course you realize this means war. And surely the Chinese must be around here somewhere, right? Also, there will be rice... and sugar. Time Period Covered: ~1630-1643 CE Major Historical Figures: Dutch East India Co./ Ft. Zeelandia: Governor Hans Putmans Iberian Union/Santissama Trinidad /Manila: King Philip II Luis Perez Dasmariñas, Governor of Manila Hurtado de Corcuera, Governor-General of the Philippines Ming Dynasty: Zheng Zhilong Other: Yan Siqi Aboriginal Factions: Taparri Kimaurri Mattau Soulang Baccluan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0	Episode 262, triple colonization.
0:52.0	We last left off on the contentious island of Taiwan. Triple colonization.
0:52.8	We last left off on the contentious island of Taiwan in the 1630s, with the Dutch seemingly firmly ensconced
0:58.7	on the southern coast within their Fort Zelandia.
1:02.6	Though they'd continue to be forced to deal with the restless native villages
1:05.7	and their own small-scale politics,
1:07.7	what truly concerned them was far larger in scale.
1:11.0	Namely, the Great Game ongoing all around the island and its surrounding sea passages,
1:16.7	and who would ultimately control such a valuable trade hub, the Dutch, the Spanish, or the Japanese.
1:23.0	Now as you recall, that question had been somewhat simplified as of 1639,
1:27.5	but with Japan's self-imposed withdrawal
1:29.5	into its period of closed-door isolationism
1:32.0	that would last for the subsequent two centuries.
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