English Explanatory Dictionary

waishengren

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

waishengren

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).

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