Formosa. Country of success
Автор книги - Самсон Хохотов. Произведение относится к жанрам научно-популярная литература, публицистика, зарубежная публицистика. Оно опубликовано в 2022 году. Книге не присвоен международный стандартный книжный номер.
Книга является по сути подробнейшим атласом истории и современного становления Тайваня как независимой страны. Также имеется большой раздел по курортным зонам и развлечениям, что отлично поможет сориентироваться в предпочтениях заблаговременно до путешествия. В английском варианте книга является оригиналом. А уже затем переведена на русский язык и издана на этой же площадке. Английский язык этого издания, без ложной скромности, безукоризнен. Корректурой и правкой занимались люди скрупулезные и ответственные. Они истинные англичане голубых кровей с оксфордским образованием. Изначально я не предполагал размещать этот вариант книги на русскоязычных ресурсах, но подумал, что книга может очень пригодиться тем, кто изучает иностранные языки.
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懷著極大的敬意， 向您推薦我的書。
略尽绵薄之力，
幫助國際友人更了解與認識台灣，
對台灣旅遊業的發展作出一點貢獻。
林巴虎
I dedicate this book to my friend Princess Michael of Kent, born Baroness Marie-Christine Anne Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz, who once helped me open a new page in my life.
Geography, Topography, Population and Language
Taiwan is a large island located in the Pacific Ocean near the eastern coast of mainland China. Since 1949, it has been functioning as an independent state, the Republic
of China. The coast of Taiwan is washed by the East China Sea to the North, the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea to the South and the Pacific Ocean to the East.
The island stretches for 394 km north to south, and is approximately 140 km across, giving an area of about 35,834 square kilometres. The length of the coastline is 1566 km. The eastern shores of the main island of Taiwan are steep, while in the west they are mostly flat with gently sloping plains. In the north, there are several (and, according to the latest updated information), dormant volcanoes. The Taiwan Mountains, covered with forests, stretch along the entire island. The highest of these is Mount Yushan at 3952m. In the west, there is a coastal plain and 90% of the island's population lives here. It is known that Aborigines lived in Taiwan about 10,000 years ago while, in contrast, the inhabitants of mainland China only began to settle in masse about 100 years ago. Today, about 10% of Taiwan residents speak the dialects of the Austronesian languages and these repre sent the indigenous population.
These aboriginal languages were once on the brink of extinction however, over the last 30 years or so, the authorities have been carefully preserving all ethnic groups of the population, actively helping them to develop the cultural heritage of their ancestors, and especially their languages.
An example of this is the people of the eastern coast of Taiwan who are called the Gaoshan.
There was a time when only a few living native speakers remained amongst the Gaoshan however the creation of a special Center for the Support of Ethnic Cultures
in 2000 has led to a complete revival of the language and this, in turn, has made it possible to open several radio and TV channels transmitting in the local dialect. Nowadays residents who speak a language belonging to the Austronesian family can easily switch to more widely used dialects while still retaining
