Formosa - Law Dictionary Search Results
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An island off the coast of China also called Taiwan It was occupied by Japan from 1895 to 1945 when it was returned to Chinese sovereignty After the Communist revolution which took over the Chinese mainland in 1949 the Nationalist Chinese under Chang Kai Shek retreated to the island of Formosa and established that island as the base of their government being recognized for several years as the de jure possessor of the China seat in the United Nations The capital is Taipei As of 1998 both the Taiwan government and the mainland China government recognized Taiwan as properly a part of China but the island is currently ruled as a de facto independent nation though it does not possess a seat in the United Nations The question of when and under what circumstances the island will be reunited with the mainland government is still unresolved...
Formosan
of pertaining to or characteristic of Formosa or the natives of Formosa as The native Formosan population now forms a minority on their own island...
honeyflower
An erect bushy shrub Lambertia formosa of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar...
Indo do Chinese languages
A family of languages mostly of the isolating type although some are agglutinative spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south...
Japan current
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific called also Kuro Siwo or Black Stream in allusion to the deep blue of its water It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream...
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