Hey everyone, welcome back to the China History Podcast,

Laosla Montgomery here bringing you part two of the CHP overview of the history of Taiwan.

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dutch. Links are at the show notes. To quickly recap last episode, we went up higher than Felix

Baumgartner to get a feel for the island's geological formation millions of years ago.

We got the lay of the land and most important saw Taiwan's role in Austronesian civilization

and with that family of languages spoken as far west as Metagascar and as far east as Easter Island.

We closed out the episode looking at a few close encounters that happened between visitors

from the mainland, always embarking from Fujian province, or sometimes from Guangdong.

And we looked at the well-worn stories and interaction that happened when visits across the Taiwan

straight occurred during the three kingdoms era all the way to the late Ming, from 230 to 1602.

And despite everything that had happened over these 13 and a half centuries,

Taiwan remained a pristine island populated by the same people from the same tribes living there,

even before Fushi and the Yellow Emperor, all speaking these many Austronesian languages.

There had been some migration of Chinese from Fujian to Penghu in Taiwan,

but even as late as the 17th century, the Chinese community on Taiwan didn't amount to more than

20,000 or so, and most of those who came from the mainland only stayed on Taiwan from

spring planting to the autumn harvest and the rest of the time was spent back home in Fujian.

We left off with Chundi and his Dongfang Ji, and counters with the eastern barbarians,

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