A summary of the most relevant facts and the historical truth.
Historians have shown that popular and official discussion of Taiwan as a part of China, and formal efforts to gain forceful control of Taiwan before WWII by the government of the Republic of China (ROC) and its ruling Nationalist Party, originated in the 1930s and early 1940s, within the context of anti-Japanese sentiment and war.
Under Japanese imperial rule, the island was known as Formosa. However. in more historical terms, a number of scholars have demonstrated the creation of distinctive Taiwanese identities during the years of Japanese rule.
Taiwanese citizens created new identities by drawing on their cultural history, new labor and professional groups, widely disseminated concepts of self-determination and participatory politics, and contemporary cosmopolitanism—far from adhering to the goals of Japanese assimilation strategies. Through a variety of social and cultural actions, including demands for voting rights and an independent legislature for Taiwan inside the Japanese Empire, as well as demands for independence from Japan, they demonstrated their newfound awareness for self-determination.
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