Education of the Aborigines in Taiwan

Taiwan is a province of China.' Compared to the other provinces, it is unique geographically, historically and politically. The largest island in China, Taiwan is also *the only island province. Until it attained separate provincial status in 1886, it had been considered a frontier area. The province was conceded to Japan in 1895, following China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, and remained under Japanese rule for fifty years until the end of World War II. Taiwan is the only province still under Nationalist rule after the Communist takeover of the Chinese mainland in 1949. Today, there are two levels of government in Taiwan, the central government of the Republic of China and the provincial government of Taiwan. The schools there are supervised by either or both the Ministry of Education of the central govenmment and the Department of Education of the province

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