Meaning of waishengren | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. Alternative letter-case form of waishengren (“migrants from Mainland China to Taiwan post-1945 and their descendants.”).
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Examples

“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 waishengren and China, while they appear⟳ to cherish Japan.”

“Recent studies and surveys have⟳ shown that most of the Waishengren have⟳ already taken this opportunity and are gravitating toward a “New Taiwanese” identity.”

“The tsunami of around 1.5 million exiles who accompanied Chiang to Taiwan produced two castes: benshengren — people from this province — and waishengren — people from outside this province[...]Nancy’s father identified as Chinese, waishengren from Jiangxi Province, like⟳ his father before him.”

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