From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Sep 06 2003 - 18:04:33 MDT
> From: Damien Broderick
>... Yes, another beautiful theory slain by an ugly
fact.
--- Spike <spike66@comcast.net> wrote:
>... I meant free to *make money* which
> Taiwan was under martial law.
I knew very little about Taiwan's history, so I
googled up a short selection.
Did you know for example, that Taiwan was a Japanese
colony from 1895-1945, and only returned to Chinese
control in Oct 1945? I didn't. Much happened in
those fifty years to create differences between these
two chinas. Those fifty years, and the fifty since,
bear on the current situaton, no?
Check it out.
Taiwan Under the Japanese (1895 - 1945)
http://www.geocities.com/apapadimos/Taiwan_Pages/Taiwan_History_4.htm
Best,Jeff Davis
"We're a band of higher primates stuck on the surface
of an atmosphere-hazed dirtball. I can associate with
that. I certainly can't identify with which patch of
the dirtball I currently happen to be on, and which
monkey tribe happens to reside therein.
Only by taking the big view we can make it a common
dream, and then a reality. It's worth it."
Eugen Leitl
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