Ep. 317 | The History of Taiwan (Part 8)
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This Part 8 episode of the History of Taiwan series runs a little longer than usual. About 50 minutes. This time we'll look at the period immediately following the handover of sovereignty in 1945. Needless to say, things didn't go so smoothly and the tone was set for the next several decades on Taiwan. The smash-and-grab events following Retrocession and the infamous 228 Incident are discussed in this episode. It's going to be a long hard slog from here on out. Wishing you all a great rest of the year and a Fab 2023.
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| 0:47.8 | Hey everyone, L'Aslamant Gummari here once again. This is the China History Podcast. |
| 0:52.8 | Taiwan History Part 8 today. How's that for a new nonsense opening? |
| 0:57.8 | For the next, however many episodes it takes, we'll be focusing on Taiwan's history from the past 78 years. |
| 1:05.8 | Last episode, we left off in 1945 following the signing of the surrender document, |
| 1:12.8 | signed between Chen Yi representing the Republic of China and Undo Rikichi of the now greatly diminished empire of Japan. |
| 1:21.8 | So let's pick up today with the rest of 1945, all of 1946, and see how things go with the ROC take over of Taiwan. |
| 1:32.8 | As we saw, per the agreement hammered out at the Cairo conference, November 22nd to 26th, 1943, |
| 1:39.8 | sovereignty over Taiwan was handed over to the Republic of China. |
| 1:44.8 | And if the residents of Taiwan had a problem with the legality of this handover under international law, too bad. |
| 1:51.8 | As early as 1942, Jiang Kai-shek had declared that, |
| 1:56.8 | Formosa, the peskadores, the four northeastern provinces, inner and outer Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet, |
| 2:04.8 | were each a fortress essential for the nation's defense and security. |
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