waishengren
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English
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Etymology
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).
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.
- Hypernym: mainlander
- Coordinate term: benshengren
- 2000 August 18, Takefumi Hayada, “The complexity of the Taiwanese”, in Taipei Times:
- 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.
- 2021 August 4, Sarah A. Topol, “Is Taiwan Next?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
- 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.