Thread: Chronicle of ROC maps

very interesting stuff, snowhole, thanks.

taiwan's got a lack of color...

6. Another map issued by ROC before 1953. Basically the same with #5. Notice the stamp on Outer Mongolia. It says '经蒙古人民公投，我政府已通知库伦政府同意其独立 (Due to votings of Mongolian citizens, we have notified the Küriye* government that the ROC government agrees its independence)'.

*The name of the Mongolian Capital was later changed to Ulaanbaatar (乌兰巴托).

7. In 1953, Taipei anounced that, due to USSR's betrayal of its commitment that it would not support the Chinese communist government, the ROC government thereby considered the independence of Mongolia 'illegal', and thus took it back on the map (although they did 'accidentally' allow Mongolia into the United Nations in 1961). Meanwhile, notice the western Xinjiang and western Yunnan borders. They had expanded to their maximum areas on the map.

8. A comparison of maps issued by ROC and PRC in 1980s. The image was adopted from then Taiwanese school textbooks.

Originally Posted by astralis

very interesting stuff, snowhole, thanks.

taiwan's got a lack of color...

Taiwan was given to Japan after the first Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895). It was returned after the defeat of Japan in World War Two. But official agreements was made in San Francisco in 1951 (IIRC). Thus in early years of ROC maps Taiwan was not part of Chinese territory.

Edit: misremembered the year, it was 1952. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Treaty

i know that for the other maps, but i was surprised by the first one with the qing. i guess that must have been after 1895. interesting thing is that taiwan really was only noted between 1885-1895 as competition between japan and qing heated up.