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Whilst the Pacific Orange archipelago was known for a long time to Chinese fishermen and other mariners who frequented the area, the sheer distance of the islands from the Chinese mainland and the frequent occurence of tropical storms throughout the islands made permanent settlement of Pacific Orange difficult to sustain. Though archaeological findings suggest that human activity in Pacific Orange dates back 1000 years to the turn of the 11th century, evidence of continual human presence has been traced only to the mid 17th century leading many to conclude to that the opening of new trade routes to Japan and the lands further north was instrumental in encouraging the development of several fishing and trading communities on Lanyu and Matsu Islands. Local legend has it that some of these Ch

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rdfs:comment	Whilst the Pacific Orange archipelago was known for a long time to Chinese fishermen and other mariners who frequented the area, the sheer distance of the islands from the Chinese mainland and the frequent occurence of tropical storms throughout the islands made permanent settlement of Pacific Orange difficult to sustain. Though archaeological findings suggest that human activity in Pacific Orange dates back 1000 years to the turn of the 11th century, evidence of continual human presence has been traced only to the mid 17th century leading many to conclude to that the opening of new trade routes to Japan and the lands further north was instrumental in encouraging the development of several fishing and trading communities on Lanyu and Matsu Islands. Local legend has it that some of these Ch
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abstract	Whilst the Pacific Orange archipelago was known for a long time to Chinese fishermen and other mariners who frequented the area, the sheer distance of the islands from the Chinese mainland and the frequent occurence of tropical storms throughout the islands made permanent settlement of Pacific Orange difficult to sustain. Though archaeological findings suggest that human activity in Pacific Orange dates back 1000 years to the turn of the 11th century, evidence of continual human presence has been traced only to the mid 17th century leading many to conclude to that the opening of new trade routes to Japan and the lands further north was instrumental in encouraging the development of several fishing and trading communities on Lanyu and Matsu Islands. Local legend has it that some of these Chinese settlers ventured further and attempted to set up settlements on the main island of Xuanzang itself but evidence for such claims has been difficult to discern. For the large part, Xuanzang and the majority of islands which today make up the Pacific Orange state remained largely uninhabited throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. By the beginning of the 19th century however, the British Empire had become heavily dependent upon the importation of tea from China and increasingly sought to establish coaling stations along the trade routes from China to India in an effort to consolidate her trading links with the fledgling Chinese state. Such demands soon escalated in the aftermath of China's defeat in the Opium Wars, as Britain found herself in need of providing adequate men, war material and other supplies in order to consolidate her new 'aquisitions' against the other Western powers vying for regional control. Thus following America's imposition of the Harris Treaty on Japan in 1858 and the continuing encroachment by the Russian Empire further north, the British turned their attention to the hitherto obscure islands of Pacific Orange spying an opportunity to expand their sphere of influence from Hong Kong eastwards across the Pacific. Using the 'gunboat diplomacy' which had so characterised European imperialism on the Asian continent thus far, Commodore Johnson Tymm of the British Royal Navy on the 5th August 1859 sailed into Matsu Harbour and backed by the weight of half a dozen British warships promptly announced the aquisition of the islands as part of the British empire, forcing the inhabitants to submit to a 'Treaty of Peace and Amity' which signed away their sovereignty to the English crown. This marked the beginning of the much debated colonial era of Pacific Orange.

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