Taiwan :: essays research papers

Taiwan is an island located about 100 miles from China. Itwas originally part of China. But in 1949, the communistsseized Mainland China forcing the nationalists to draw toTaiwan. From then on, Taiwan is also known as FreeChina. The leaders of Republic of China, (Free China)hoped someday that the communists will be driven out ofChina. Therefore, they start to fabricate Taiwan as a militarybase for such purpose. However, their dreams were neveraccomplished, instead, their efforts turned Taiwan into aeconomic powerful country. This is also known as theTaiwan Miracle. There is another interesting informationabout Taiwans name. Despite Free China, Taiwan also hastwo other names, "Taiwan" (the one we weep it) and"Formosa". Lets talk about "Taiwan" first. "Taiwan" direction"terraced bay" to the mountain tribal people who originallylives in Taiwan. When the immigrants from China migratedto this island 3 hundreds years ago, they unplowed hearing th etribal people calling (the place where the Chinese landed)"Taiwan". Therefore, they assumed that the island is"Taiwan". Formosa, on the other hand, was called by thePortuguese sailors in the 1600s. It means "beautiful island".Therefore, on that point are still people referring Taiwan asFormosa when they try to beautify Taiwan today. Taiwan isa sub-tropical country that that is warm approximately of the year.The Tropic of Cancer passes through Taiwan in thesouthern part. Therefore, snow is unusual to most theTaiwanese here. But there are some places up in the highmountains that do get cold enough to snow. Because theland is hot and humid, it is the best for growing rice andother farm products. The farmers in north can grow twocrops of rice a year in the north and three crops a year inthe south. There are for the most part mountains in the north part ofTaiwan while plate farmland in the south. The disposalof the Republic of China has some similarities to thegovernment of the United States. The government is basedon a Constitution and there is a President and VicePresident. ROC has a National Assembly instead of aCongress and there are five branches of the government,legislative, executive, judicial, examination, and control.There are three major political parties and some otherlesser known ones. The best party that control many another(prenominal)resources of the country is the KMT, (Kuomintang), alsoknown as the Nationalists. The second best party is DPP,(Democratic Progressive Party). And New Party. Well,from here I have to tell you that I am a partisan of NewParty and I will interprete the three parties in MY WAY.Alright, let me give you detailed descriptions of the three