Here are some key periods and dates in the contested island’s history:1600s to 1885: Colonization and Chinese ruleIn the ...

Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison have achieved quite a milestone with Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a ...

Taiwan has endured a long history of colonization. As a trip to the culinary center of Tainan reveals, those outside forces have helped create a... Feast your eyes on Taiwan's distinct food (and ...

China also says that United Nations resolution 2758, passed in 1971, means the world legally recognises Taiwan belongs to China. The resolution states that the People's Republic of China is the only ...

In his inauguration speech last May, Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, evoked the year 1624—when the Dutch East India Company established a fort on the island—as the year that “marked Taiwan’s ...

Defining what is and isn’t a country is a lot more complicated than many people would realize. Take the case of Taiwan. Officially, the U.K. “does not recognise Taiwan” as a country, nor does it ...

Quick question: What anniversary is celebrated on October 25? If you know the answer, congratulations; not many do. It is in fact the end of Japan’s 50-year rule over Taiwan in 1945. At the time, the ...

China has another reason to be annoyed at the United States. Taiwan appeared at the top of a cardboard sign held up by President Donald Trump during his tariff announcement ceremony. The White House ...