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西方列強(qiáng)利用中國在 1894年甲1戰(zhàn)爭失敗后的 局面，紛紛在中國強(qiáng)租港灣、 劃分勢(shì)力范圍，使中國處于 被列強(qiáng)瓜分的狀態(tài)。列強(qiáng)不 僅對(duì)中國經(jīng)濟(jì)掠奪，在政治 上也深度干預(yù)，這使慈德太 后'難以按照自己的意愿進(jìn)行 廢帝改立°列強(qiáng)的欺凌引來 了民眾日趨激烈的反抗，令 統(tǒng)治者“剿撫兩難”

Western powers took advantage of China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, going so far as to carve China up by forcing it to lease its territories and occupying zones of influence. Economic exploitation and political intervention by these powers made it impossible for Empress Dowager Cixi to enthrone a new emperor as she wished. Meanwhile, the ordinary people were bullied so badly by the Western powers that they rose up to fight, putting the rulers into a dilemma in which they needed to choose between “suppressing” and “compromising”.

義和團(tuán) ' 的蔓延，讓生 活在中國的西方人感到了威 脅。1900年5月，西方列強(qiáng) 的海軍在天津附近的大沽口 舉行軍事演習(xí)，向中國政府 施加壓力。6月在北京，則爆 發(fā)了義和團(tuán)與外國使館之間 的武裝沖突。6月17日，外 國海軍攻占大沽口炮臺(tái)。義 和團(tuán)與清軍盡管進(jìn)行了英勇 的抵抗，卻無力打敗擁有現(xiàn) 代化武器的列強(qiáng)軍隊(duì)，8月 15 日,由英、法、德、美、日、 俄、奧、意等八國聯(lián)合派遣 的遠(yuǎn)征軍'攻入北京，慈禧太 后挾光緒皇帝倉皇出逃：

As the Boxer Rebellion gained ground, Western expatriates in China felt threatened. In May 1900, Western powers flexed their military muscles, launching a naval exercise off Dagu Port near Tianjin, which was followed by an armed conflict between the Boxers and foreign diplomatic missions in June in Beijing. On June 17, foreign navies captured the Dagu Forts. Despite fierce fighting, the Boxers and government troops were unable to defeat the Western forces equipped with modern weapons. The allied expeditionary force of Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Japan, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Italy swept into Beijing on August 15, 1900, and Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled in panic.

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臺(tái)灣'自古即屬于中國。 大量的史書和文獻(xiàn)記載了中 國人民早期開發(fā)臺(tái)灣的情景 距今1700多年以前， 時(shí)吳人沈瑩的《臨海水土志》 等對(duì)此就有所著述，它們是 世界上記述臺(tái)灣最早的文字。

Taiwan has belonged to China since ancient times. Many historical annals and records documented the development of Taiwan by the Chinese people in earlier periods. References can be found, among others, in Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer compiled more than 1700 years ago by Shen Ying of the State of Wu during the period of the Three Kingdoms. This was the world’s earliest written account of Taiwan.

公元三世紀(jì)和七世紀(jì)， 三國孫吳政權(quán)和隋朝政府都 曾先后派萬余人去臺(tái)「進(jìn)入 17世紀(jì)之后，中國人民在臺(tái) 灣的開拓規(guī)模越來越大° 17 世紀(jì)末，大陸赴臺(tái)開拓者超 過10萬人，至公元1893年（清 光渚19年）時(shí)，總數(shù)達(dá)到 50.7萬余戶，254萬余人，是 200年前的25倍。

Several expeditions, each numbering over 10,000 people, were sent to Taiwan by the State of Wu in the third century A.D. and the Sui Dynasty in the seventh century A.D. respectively. In the early 17th century, the Chinese people stepped up the development of Taiwan. The number of pioneers from the mainland topped 100,000 at the end of century. By 1893 ( the 19th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), their population exceeded 2.54 million people in more than 507,000 households. That was a 24-fold increase in 200 years.

他們簞路藍(lán)縷，披荊斬 棘，大大加速了臺(tái)灣整體開 發(fā)的進(jìn)程’這一史實(shí)說明， 臺(tái)灣和中國其他省區(qū)一樣， 同為中國各族人民所開拓所 定居臺(tái)灣社會(huì)的發(fā)展始終 延續(xù)著中華文化的傳統(tǒng)， 使在日本侵占的50年間， 一情況也沒有改變。

Thanks to the determined efforts and hard toil of the pioneers, the development of the island as a whole greatly accelerated. This historical how Taiwan, like the other parts of China, came to be opened up and settled by the Chinese people of various ethnic groups. Since the very beginning, Taiwan society has developed in keeping with Chinese cultural traditions. This did not change even during the half a century of Japanese occupation.

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