2) Taiwan. The World Factbook. 2003
... Background:In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. It reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the...

3) Taiwan. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...Taiwan Island nation in the Pacific Ocean near the mainland of southern China; seat of the Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Taipei. 1 When the Chinese...

4) Taiwan Strait. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Taiwan Strait, Chinese Taiwan haixia, arm of the Pacific Ocean, between China's Fujian coast and Taiwan, linking the East and South China seas. It contains the Pescadores....

5) Taiwan. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...held by the Dutch in the mid-1600s before being seized by Qing dynasty Chinese in 1683. Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895 and regained by China after World War II...

6) Taiwan Strait. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...An arm of the Pacific Ocean between Taiwan and China. It links the East China Sea with the South China Sea....

7) c. The Republic of China (Taiwan, Nationalist China). 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...c. The Republic of China (Taiwan, Nationalist China) (See Dec. 8) 1950 The Nationalist government in Taiwan at last began to introduce some of the reforms it had...

8) Formosa, former name for Taiwan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Formosa, former name for Taiwan, see Taiwan....

9) 1959, Oct. 7. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...undersecretary of state Douglas C. Dillon stated that if the Chinese Communists attacked Taiwan and the offshore islands, they would be risking "total" world war....

10) Taipei. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Taipei, (tiba´) (KEY) , city (1995 est. pop. 2,632,863), N Taiwan, capital of Taiwan and provisional capital of the Republic of China. Taiwan's largest city, it is...