Word: taiwan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When grasping Japan seized China's island of Formosa (the Beautiful) in 1895 and renamed it Taiwan (Terraced Bay), the Chinese accepted their loss with Oriental calm. In the years that followed they watched their neighbor struggle with Formosan problems of malaria, head-hunting savages, typhoons and earthquakes...