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.
Origin
From Mandarin , 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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