00:03They called it Ilia Formosa, beautiful island.
00:09But the people who lived here, long before maps and names, called it something else.
00:17Before the flags, before the borders, Taiwan was a node in a vast oceanic world.
00:26A place of languages and stories, some of which the world never bothered to hear.
00:35Then came the outsiders. Each one brought their own version of the truth.
00:39Each tried to rename the island, reshape its soul.
00:43And for 50 years, it worked, at least on the surface.
00:51Until one day, history shattered, and the people of Taiwan were forced to start over, again.
00:58This is not just the story of an island, it's the story of survival, in the space between great powers.
01:05A place that was told to be many things, and finally began telling its story for itself.
01:12Today, Taiwan is a contradiction.
01:15Ancient and modern.
01:17Free and fragile.
01:19Its past erased and rewritten more times than most nations can count.
01:25Who gets to write history?
01:29In this series, we follow Taiwan through 400 years of occupation, resistance, and reinvention.
01:37Not as a subplot of someone else's empire, but as the protagonist of its own story.
01:43This is the story of a place that never fit into anyone's script.
01:47So it started writing its own.
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02:04Amen.
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