waishengren

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — 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.

词形变化

waishengren plural Waishengren alternative

词源

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).
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