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Taiwanese people. Taiwanese people[I] are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of China (ROC) and those who reside in an overseas diaspora from the entire Taiwan Area. The term also refers to natives or inhabitants of the island of Taiwan and its associated islands. The term generally applies to inhabitants on the island of Taiwan who ...
The Han Chinese (alternatively Han people, [a] or colloquially simply Chinese[17]) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 17.5% of the global population. The Han Chinese represent 92% of the population in mainland ...
Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, [2][3] and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people or Gaoshan people, [4] are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 600,303 or 3% of the island 's population.
Liu Yongfu formed a temporary government in Tainan before escaping as Japanese forces closed in. [201] Between 200,000 and 300,000 people fled Taiwan in 1895. [202] [203] Chinese residents in Taiwan were given the option of selling their property and leaving by May 1897, or become Japanese citizens. From 1895 to 1897, an estimated 6,400 people ...
The Atayal (Chinese: 泰雅; pinyin: Tàiyǎ), also known as the Tayal and the Tayan, [1] are a Taiwanese indigenous people. The Atayal people number around 90,000, approximately 15.9% of Taiwan's total indigenous population, making them the third-largest indigenous group. [2][3] The preferred endonym is "Tayal" [citation needed], although the ...
Taiwanese architecture refers to a style of buildings constructed by the Han people, and is a branch of Chinese architecture. [65] The style is generally afforded to buildings constructed before the modernization under Japanese occupation, in the 1930s.
The culture of Taiwan is a blend of Han Chinese and indigenous Taiwanese cultures. [1] Despite the overwhelming Chinese cultural influence and minority indigenous Taiwanese cultural influence, Japanese culture has significantly influenced Taiwanese culture as well. [2] The common socio-political experience in Taiwan gradually developed into a ...
The Amis (Amis: Amis, Ami, Pangcah; Paiwan: Muqami), also known as the Pangcah (which means 'people' and 'kinsmen'), are an indigenous Austronesian ethnic group native to Taiwan. They speak the Amis language (Caciyaw no Pangcah; Minuqamian), an Austronesian language, and are one of the sixteen officially recognized Taiwanese indigenous peoples.