Mom, are we Taiwanese?
Hearts in Taiwan
English - May 06, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture History taiwanese american chinese american taiwanese taiwan taiwanese history taiwanese immigrants annie wang angela yu annie and angela angela and annie Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Annie and Angela decode the distinction among people whose families come from Taiwan: who identifies as Chinese and who identifies as Taiwanese, and why. Our journey begins when we combine Wikipedia research with questions we’ve never asked our moms until now.
Vocab:
外省人 waishengren - Family from mainland China who moved to Taiwan to escape Communism in the late 1940s
本省人 benshengren - Family who was already in Taiwan when waishengren came
Cover photo:
Eight-year-olds Angela and Annie in Chinese school summer camp
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