Taiwan’s Painful Colonial Legacy
Before Taiwan became a modern democracy, it underwent centuries of often-brutal colonization. Both distant European powers and those close by — the Qing Empire, Japan and Chinese Nationalists — sought to settle, exploit and militarize the island that had been inhabited for millennia. What legacy have centuries of colonialism left for Taiwan and its communities? For answers, #CONNECTED speaks with Daya Dakasi, an Indigenous Tayal scholar at National Chengchi University, and Evan Dawley of Goucher College.
