The Weekend Intelligence: Inside Taiwan's identity struggle

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  The Economist The island of Taiwan is one of those places in the world that's changed hands for centuries.

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  Back in the 17th, it was populated by a mosaic of Malay Polynesian tribes,

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  till the Spanish and the Dutch showed up.

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  Soon, dynastic ructions in China drove members of the old Ming dynasty in.

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  Then, in the 19th, came the Japanese, who got Taiwan as spoils of the Sino-Japanese War.

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  You keeping up here?

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  Okay.

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  Then in the 20th century, revolution in China.

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  No more dynasties.

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  The new central government was under the loose rule of a nationalist party called the Kuomintang.

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  Marxism took root,

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  and the Kuomintang got help from the new Chinese Communist Party to make its loose rule a lot tighter.

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  Taiwan, meanwhile, was handed to the Kuomintang by the Japanese,

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  again as spoils of war in 1945.

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  Long story still long, the nationalists and the communists, they fell out in a big way.

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  In the ensuing civil war,

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  millions of the Kuomintang faithful flooded into Taiwan, their last refuge.

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  Then they set up martial law,

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  violently suppressing local languages and histories, for nearly 40 years.

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  I'm Jason Palmer, this is the Weekend Intelligence,

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