Formosa betrayed
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. 1st printing. Hardcover. Black dj with red and white text, top textblock red, black clothbound boards with purple and red decorative text. 514 pp. Some bw illustrations of maps. 1st Printing. VG- (Dj has some wear and rips at edges, some pen on first endpage, all else excellent). Item #211857
"On December 1, 1943, in the Cairo Declaration, the United States and Britain blandly and almost absentmindedly pledged themselves to 'restore' to China the island of Formosa. So began the long betrayal of a trusting people. The Formosans regarded the United States as a model of the democracy they hoped to emulate and a friend who would surely help them realize their hope.
China's claim to Formosa rested on the shaky ground that most of the inhabitants were descended from Chinese emigrants who settled there in the seventeenth century. But China did not make the island a province until 1887 and ceded it in perpetuity to Japan eight years later..." - from dustjacket.
OCLC: 242620
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