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name
Alternative letter-case form of waishengren (“migrants from Mainland China to Taiwan post-1945 and their descendants.”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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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.
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Broader terms: mainlander
History
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).
