Waishengren
臺灣外省人 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total population | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 13% of Taiwan's total population (1990 census) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Languages | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Taiwanese Mandarin, Chinese dialects, Languages of other ethnic groups in China | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Related ethnic groups | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese, Hoklo Taiwanese, Hakka Taiwanese, Han Taiwanese | |||||||||||||||||||||
Waishengren, formerly called mainlanders, are a group of migrants who arrived in Taiwan from mainland China between the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II in 1945 and during the Kuomintang retreat at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. They came from various regions of mainland China and spanned multiple social classes.
The term is often seen in contrast with benshengren, which refers to Hoklo and Hakka people in Taiwan who arrived prior to 1945 who had lived under Japanese rule. The term also excludes other ethnic Chinese immigrants (e.g. from Malaysia or Hong Kong) and later immigrants from mainland China.