waishengren
waishengren noun: a category of people and their descendants who fled mainland China for Taiwan after 1945 in response to the Nationalists losing the Chinese Civil War; sometimes regarded as an ethnic group.
Noun
waishengren (plural waishengren)
- a category of people and their descendants who fled mainland China for Taiwan after 1945 in response to the Nationalists losing the Chinese Civil War; sometimes regarded as an ethnic group.
- What surprised me was that it was not a "waishengren" who had such a deep consciousness of Chinese history, but a "bensheng-ren"[...]Many Japanese people residing in Taiwan, including myself, receive a lot of help from benshengren, who are fluent in Japanese. We often hear them complain about...2000 August 18, Takefumi Hayada, “The complexity of the Taiwanese”, in Taipei Times
- Recent studies and surveys have shown that most of the Waishengren have already taken this opportunity and are gravitating toward a “New Taiwanese” identity.2011, Joshua Fan, China's Homeless Generation: Voices from the Veterans of the Chinese Civil War, 1940s-1990s, Routledge, →ISBN, page 151
Proper noun capitalized: Waishengren
Waishengren
- Alternative letter-case form of waishengren (“migrants from Mainland China to Taiwan post-1945 and their descendants.”).
Forms of waishengren
| plural | waishengren |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Waishengren |
Origin of waishengren
From Mandarin 外省人 (wàishěngrén), literally "outside province people" (from the point of view that Taiwan was a province of the Republic of China and they were migrants from other provinces).
Questions about waishengren
- What does waishengren mean?
- Waishengren means a category of people and their descendants who fled mainland China for Taiwan after 1945 in response to the Nationalists losing the Chinese Civil War; sometimes regarded as an ethnic group.
- What part of speech is waishengren?
- Waishengren can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of waishengren?
- The plural of waishengren is waishengren.
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