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This index lists concepts, topics, and themes. Proper nouns and specific terms can be located by means of the online search feature.

Location information is provided as follows: chapter number followed by paragraph number(s), separated by a colon. So paragraph 1 of chapter 2 would be 2:1. When a locator points to the Introduction or the Conclusion, it takes the form I:8 or C:22.

Please note that block quotations are counted as part of the paragraph. If a paragraph resumes after a block quotation, it, too, is counted as part of a single paragraph, even if the block includes indented paragraphs. Epigraphs and headings are not counted.

aborigines

Age of Commerce, I:36

agriculture

artillery fortress, I:32

Austronesians

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Batavia

bureacratic rule

  • versus charismatic rule, 9:24
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cabessa system

cartography, 4:7

Catholicism

ceremonial

China

Chinese colonies

Chinese massacres

Chinese rebellions

Church Council

Coastal Evacuation Policy, 10:16

co–colonization

colonization

cultural brokers

cultural mediation

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Danshui

  • gold trade, 4:7, 4:9
  • Spanish fortress established in, 4:14
  • sulfur trade, 4:7

deer industry, 7:4–6

deer, Sika

diplomacy race, 3:30–32

disease

Dominicans

  • China, 4:17
  • charitable work on Taiwan, 4:18
  • defiance of Spanish secular authorities, 5:11
  • establish seminary on Taiwan, 4:18
  • historiographical traditions, 5:1, 5:22
  • mission on Taiwan, 4:17–19, 4:21–30

drought, Taiwan, 6:30

Dutch East India Company

Dutch Republic

  • empire, compared to Spanish empire, 6:2
  • first voyages to East Indies, I:28
  • relations with Spain, I:28, 4:2–6
  • trade, I:29

Dutch Revolt, I:28

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Eighty Years War, I:28

empire

entrepreneurs, Chinese, 11:1–3

  • and hoofdgeld collection, 9:41
  • Chinese, role in Cabessa System, 8:10
  • role in development of Taiwan, 6:13, 8:2
  • try to end Zheng trade embargo, 10:36

European colonialism

European exceptionalism, I:36

European expansion, I:4, I:24

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famine, 6:27

Favorolang

fishing, 1:23, 1:26, 2:14

Formosa

Formosan Austronesians

Fujian

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gambling, I:2

  • legalization of, 8:14
  • links to piracy, 8:14

global history, I:4, I:36

globalization, I:37, I:40

Grotius

  • theory of divided sovereignty, 9:9

Guomindang

  • rule over Taiwan, C:27
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Hai Jin

head tax

headhunting, 1:7–16, 2:27, 3:1–3, 3:7, 4:8, 4:14

Hongwu Emperor (Ming), I:7, I:11

hoofdbrief

hoofdgeld, 2:15, 8:3

  • abuses in collection of, 8:9–12
  • and Austronesian agriculture, 9:39
  • and Rebellion of 1652, C:11
  • and revenue farming, 9:41
  • and Zheng trade embargo, 10:33
  • as revenue source, 8:4
  • Batavia considers abrogation of, 8:12
  • collection of, 8:7
  • compared to other colonies, 8:4
  • first collection of, 8:5
  • importance of, 8:8
  • inspections, 8:2
  • number of people taxed, 8:6
  • origins of, 8:4
  • penalties for infringement of, 8:7
  • waived for employees of Chinese entrepreneurs, 8:8

hospital

  • as incentive to Chinese colonization, 6:22

hunting, 7:3–9

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informal empire

Isla Hermosa

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Jakarta

Japan

Jilong

  • as most important port in Taiwan, 4:7
  • gold trade, 4:7, 4:9
  • Spanish fortress in, 4:12
  • sulfur trade, 4:7

judicial system

justice

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Kangxi Emperor (Qing), C:25

kerckenraedt

  • protests against Village Leasehold System, 8:26

Korea

  • Japanese Invasion of 1592, I:23

Koxinga

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laborers

  • Chinese, wages of, 8:8

landdag, 3:31–32

  • see also ceremonial
  • and pax Hollandica, 9:31–33
  • as feudal ritual, 9:14–15
  • as instrument of VOC rule, 9:19
  • as interface between VOC and Austronesians, 9:37
  • as key institution of VOC rule, 9:2
  • as occasion for punishment, 9:22
  • as symbol of feudal rule, 9:9
  • canceled due to fears of Zheng invasion, 11:18
  • compared to Spanish rituals in Northern Taiwan , 4:24
  • description of, 9:14–18
  • eastern, 9:13
  • far–northern, 9:13
  • Favorolang participates in, 7:33
  • feast, 9:17
  • function of, 9:24
  • furthers intervillage peace, 9:31
  • governor's address, 7:34
  • investment of village elders, 9:15–16, 9:27–29
  • northern versus southern, 9:13
  • origins of, 9:11
  • symbols of, 9:11, 9:15, 9:26–29
  • symbols of, survival, 9:35
  • symbols, under Zheng rule, 11:35
  • under Zheng rule, 11:35

locusts

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Macao

  • Dutch assault on, 1622, I:30

Manila

Maritime Prohibition (Ming), I:7, I:10–14, 6:6

Mattau

Melaka

  • Portuguese conquest of, 1511, I:25

migration, Chinese, I:2, 6:4–18, 6:22, C:17–20, C:21–23

Military Revolution, I:32

military

Ming Dynasty, I:6–7

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Pachten

pax Hispanica

pax Hollandica, 3:2, 3:30–32

Philippines

piracy

Portugal

Price Revolution, caused by Chinese silver trade, I:37

property rights

  • as incentive to increase Chinese colonization, 6:24–26
  • given to Chinese settlers, 6:23–26
  • Taiwan compared to China, 6:24
  • Taiwan, establishment of, 6:23–26

protection fees, 2:14

Protestant mission

Protestantism

punishment

  • landdag as occasion for, 9:22
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Qing Dynasty

  • annexes Taiwan, C:25
  • campaigns against Zheng Chenggong, 10:15
  • captures Zheng Taiwan, C:25
  • Coastal Evacuation Policy, 10:16
  • Kangxi Emperor, C:25
  • rule over Taiwan, C:26
  • talks with Zheng Chenggong, 10:13
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Rebellion of 1652, 8:2, 9:38, 9:40, C:11

rebellions, Chinese

Republic of China, rule over Taiwan, C:27

residency permit

residency tax

revenue farming

revenue farming

revenue

  • see also pachten
  • see also taxation
  • see also Village Franchise System
  • see also taxation
  • raised by volunteer contributions from Chinese settlers, 8:3

rice

Ryukyu Islands

  • Japanese invasion of, 1609, I:23
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Sakoku

  • see Japan, Seclusion Policy

Seventeenth Century Crisis, 5:1, 5:4

Sika deer, 1:20–25, 7:3–11

silver

Sinkan

Sino–Dutch colony

Sino–Japanese contact, I:18, I:22, I:30

Siraya, 1:6–19, 3:1–3

  • compared to Northern Formosan Austronesians, 4:8
  • village sizes, 1:18–19

smuggling, I:11–13, I:18, 1:27, 3:4–5, 6:8, 6:12, 7:3, 7:8–13, 8:18–19

  • in Favorolang, 7:27

Southern Ming

sovereignty

Spain

sugar

  • Taiwan, 6:17, 6:19
  • Taiwan, compared to mainland Chinese sugar, 6:17
  • Taiwan, decline of, 11:16
  • Taiwan, difficulties obtaining processing supplies, 6:28
  • Taiwan, establishment of, 6:27–28
  • Taiwan, investments required for, 6:25
  • Taiwan, processing of, 6:27–28
  • Taiwan, yields, 6:27–28
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Taiwan

tax farming

taxation, 2:14, 8:1

  • see also pachten
  • see also tax farming
  • and Chinese, 7:36
  • and economic decline of 1650s, 11:16
  • and revenue farming, 8:15
  • and Zheng trade embargo, 10:25, 10:33–34
  • auctions, cheating, 11:11
  • first attempts, 8:3
  • freedom from as incentive to increase Chinese colonization, 6:22, 8:4
  • hunting license system, 7:10–11
  • illegal tolls, 11:11–13
  • increase in 1640s, 8:3
  • increase of, 8:4, 8:14
  • leased to Chinese entrepreneurs, 9:41
  • of deer products, 7:8–12
  • rice, 8:15–16
  • rice, collection of, 8:16
  • rice, farmers' attempts to avoid, 8:16
  • rice, income from, 8:16
  • thiende, 8:3
  • tribute collected from Austronesians, 9:3–4, 9:30
  • tribute collected from Austronesians, abrogation of, 9:6
  • tribute collected from Austronesians, amounts of, 9:5–6
  • tribute collected from Austronesians, symbolic importance of, 9:5, 9:30
  • volunteer contributions by Chinese settlers, 8:3

thiende

trade

translation, 2:1–3, 2:13, 2:16, 11:2–3, 11:45

Tribute System, I:7, I:9, I:11, I:13, I:18, 11:2, 11:4

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United Provinces of the Netherlands

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Venison

Village Leasehold System, 8:2, 11:1

VOC

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wages

  • of Chinese laborers, 8:8
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Yongle Emperor (Ming), I:8

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Zheng Chenggong

Zheng family, 2:16–26

Zheng He

Zheng Zhilong

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