Taiwan under Japanese rule
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The island of Taiwan, along with the Penghu Islands, became an annexed territory of the Empire of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after t
Saigō with leaders of the Seqalu tribe in Taiwan
Japanese painting of the expedition forces attacking the Mudan tribe, 1874
Painting of Japanese soldiers entering the city of Taipeh (Taipei) in 1895 after the Treaty of Shimonoseki
Insurgents captured during the Seirai-an Temple Incident, 1915
The Republic of China established its governance over Mainland China on 1 January 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and ended China's imperial history.
Taiwan under Japanese rule
…Taiwan ended in October 1945, after Japan surrendered to end World War II in August of that year and the territory was placed under the control of the Republic of China (ROC) by General Order No. 1 from US General Douglas MacArthur. Japan formally renounced its sovereignty over Taiwan in the Treaty of San Francisco…
Yuan Shikai (left) and Sun Yat-sen (right) with flags representing the early republic
Chinese Nationalist Army soldiers during the 1938 Yellow River flood
Nationalist government of Nanjing, which nominally ruled over all of China during 1930s
Beiyang Army troops in the 1920s