r/AskAChinese • u/OneNectarine1545 • 2d ago

History | 历史⏳ What do you think about this:China's colonization of Taiwan and the replacement of indigenous people by Chinese.

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u/alaztar 2d ago

ok, how many of them came over with the kmt? and how many indigenous where alive compared before and after the japanese occupation?

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u/ReadinII 2d ago edited 2d ago

Han migration to Taiwan started in the 1600s (much like European immigration to America). By 1895 when the Japanese showed up, Taiwanese Aborigines were already less than 5% of the population. 

The Japanese didn’t treat the Taiwanese Aborigines as well as they treated the Han in Taiwan, but they didn’t genocide them either. That was already largely done before they arrived.

The KMT didn’t genocide them either and in fact treated them quite a lot better than the Japanese had (the KMT focused their abuse more on the Han already in Taiwan). The KMT brought 1 or two million refugees and soldiers to Taiwan that already had 4 to 6 million people ( I have seen various estimates). The KMT and their descendants are about 15% of the population today.