Libro: Rebel Island: the incredible history of Taiwan

The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its ‘Asian Tiger’ economic miracle ? and the looming threat of invasion by China.

Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a ‘ball of mud’, Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller than Indiana. It is the last surviving enclave of the Republic of China, a lost colony of Japan, and claimed by Beijing as a rogue province ? merely the latest chapters in its long history as a refuge for pirat