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  Taiwanese, Mandarin, and Taiwan's language situation
We shall examine the processes whereby Taiwanese children are weaned away from their mother tongue and acquire in its stead a second language for the purpose of becoming literate.
Now that the people of Taiwan have taken political control into their own hands, there is a tremendous amount of energy directed toward the establishment of written Taiwanese, but no functional models have been created to actualize such hopes.
Taiwanese (the English equivalent of Daiwanway [MSM Taiwanhua]) is a dialect of the Southern Min big topolect or branch of Sinitic (Hanyu).
pinyin.info /readings/mair/taiwanese.html   (11512 words)

  
 republic-china   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Meanwhile, the Communists proclaimed the People's Republic of China and claimed to be the successor state of the ROC over all of China, claiming the Nationalist government in Taiwan to be illegitimate.
The relationship with the People's Republic of China and the related issues of Taiwan independence and Chinese reunification continue to dominate Taiwanese politics.
The political scene in the ROC is divided into two camps, with the pro-unification and center-right Kuomintang, People First Party, and New Party forming the Pan-Blue Coalition, and the pro-independence and center-left Democratic Progressive Party and centrist Taiwan Solidarity Union forming the Pan-Green Coalition.
www.china-101.net /directory/republicchina.html   (3097 words)

  
 BBC - WW2 People's War - Taiwanese Resistance Against the Japanese
This story was submitted to the peoples war site by Ainsley Jacobs (a voulunteer of CSV) on behalf of Kevin Liu and has been added to the site by his permission.
When the Japanese were defeated there was a flooding of people to the local registry offices in Taiwan to change the names back so that they would not be mistaken as Japanese by the Americans.
Kevin Liu’s Grandmother Sun Shi Jun was one of these people and she was given lots of paper work to complete in order to get her real Chinese name back.
www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/72/a3861272.shtml   (403 words)

  
 List of Taiwanese people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: List of leaders of the Republic of China, Premier of the Republic of China
See also: List of Taiwanese authors and List of Confucianists
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Taiwanese_people   (189 words)

  
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As Taiwanese pop singer A-Mei prepared to take the stage in the Chinese city of Hangzhou last weekend, local university students – her natural fan base – unfurled banners protesting her presumed support of Taiwanese independence.
Other Taiwanese pop singers, who generally enjoy substantial support from young fans in China, have been targeted recently on Chinese internet discussion groups as 'traitors' to the motherland.
Taiwanese pop diva Chang Hui-mei (張惠妹), better known as A-mei, was forced to cancel a performance in China on Saturday night due to a protest by students from Zhejiang University (浙江大學) who accused her of being a supporter of Taiwan independence.
yaleglobal.yale.edu /article.print?id=4082   (638 words)

  
 TAIWANESE HAKKA
This migration was secondary to the pressure of population increase.
There indeed some northern ethnic people migrated to south, however, the number of people migrated from north was really very minute.
He also listed the population data to demonstrate that there was no of massive migration from northern China.
home.i1.net /~alchu/hakka/toihakka.htm   (3931 words)

  
 Taiwanese journalists barred from UN gig
TAIWANESE JOURNALISTS won’t be allowed in to cover the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva later this month because Taiwan is not a state recognized by the UN General Assembly, the Taipei Times reports.
Top of the list of UNOG press releases on its website is a document promoting World Press Freedom Day.
Various dignitaries are wheeled out to pay "tribute to the courage and professionalism of the numerous journalists and other media professionals either killed or wounded on account of their professional activities".
www.theinquirer.net /?article=23042   (207 words)

  
 Taiwanese choreographer makes Time's list of Asian heroes
It reports that Lin Hwai-min, the Taiwanese choreographer who is best known as the founder of the highly acclaimed Cloud Gate Dance Theater, was one of 20 people who recently received awards fro Time Magazine for being named to Year 2005's list of Asia's heroes.
In Year 2005, the 20 people on the list were categorized into groups such as "the Tsunami", "role models", "iconoclasts", "activists", "change agents", "entertainers" and "educators".
But the modest artist simply said that he is "a nobody" when compared to other people who made it on the list.
www.taiwan.com.au /Soccul/Arts/Dance/20051202.html   (262 words)

  
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It is not the intent of this list to focus on one area of addiction, but rather to discuss the phenomena of addiction as it relates to areas of sexual, co-dependency, eating addiction, etc...
People from all fields of sciences, management, information technology, computer science, and so on, are welcome including managers who are concerned with several critical items when making their business decisions.
This list will not be moderated, at least initially, so we encourage contributors to be succinct, to include relevant parts of messages to which they are responding, and to append their names, titles, and institutions to contributions.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/services/list-o-lists   (15078 words)

  
 Congressman Charles B. Rangel - (NY15) - The Burden of War Must Be Shared by Hon. Charles B. Rangel
You don’t have to be in combat, you don’t have to be shot, to understand that not all of the people who go to Iraq are coming back -- that families suffer the pain of losing their loved ones, and that you’re going to kill people whose lives you have no right to take away.
So some people have accused me of me of introducing legislation to reinstitute the draft just to embarrass the President or because I am against the war.
Others say I did it to deter people from talking about going to war because of concern that their loved ones would be placed in harm’s way.
www.house.gov /apps/list/press/ny15_rangel/cbrwar031803.html   (1113 words)

  
 Smart Investors Looking at Taiwanese Stocks - SeekingAlpha
Taiwanese businesses are currently finding their growth hampered by a variety of politically motivated factors.
Taiwanese companies are looking to expand sales on the mainland and are willing to invest to develop manufacturing but they are currently hampered by the limit placed on their investment.
Investing in individual ADRs of Taiwanese stocks may not be viable for risk adverse investors during the political malaise that is consuming Taiwan.
china.seekingalpha.com /article/19955   (1280 words)

  
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But, as many people have long observed, virtually all of formal (i.e., form-oriented) linguistic work is very far indeed from being formal and has been getting further and further away in recent years.
People are free to use any language they want in their private interactions and they certainly do not have to fear repression.
People about 50 and older report that they were often punished in school for speaking French, which caused trouble for many of them who had never heard English before attending school.
www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.2/no.151-200   (17212 words)

  
 China List : Chinese People
EMBASSY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF...
FIFA has apologised to China for listing Tibet as a 'neighbouring country' ofChina rather than part of the People’s Republic of China on an official website of...
China List excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website.
china-list.com /chinesepeople/index.php   (748 words)

  
 Taiwanese @ New York
Taiwanese American Community of Greater New York will be staging a rally for Taiwan UN membership near the United Nations building on September 12th(Tuesday).
Taiwanese New Yorkers should all show our support for Taiwan since we are just few subway stops away.
The Taiwanese Americans also urge the nations of the world to stop colluding with China in isolating Taiwan, and to accept the free and democratic Taiwan as a full and equal member of the international community.
www.taiwaneseny.com /blogger/taiwaneseny   (1579 words)

  
 TILE.NET - Email List Directory - News & FTP Directory - Internet Reference
This list has been set up for the campus community to engage in substantive discussion of topics within the charge of the AC4.
This list is for students in the Dip.
This list is sponsored by MRSC and covers a broad range of local government topics.
tile.net /lists/?descrip=T   (1292 words)

  
 LWN: Debian and Taiwanese independence
The list is primarily from the ISO standard ISO 3166, which is the standard that defines those codes like "us" for USA and "ch" for Switzerland.
Well, the people living in Taiwan obviously don't want to be part of "The People's Republic of China" and it obviously isn't since it has its own government.
The effect that the wording of Debian's country list will have on Taiwanese independence is too small to worry about, and the probability that the maintainer chooses to word it that way in order to effect Taiwanese independence is even smaller.
lwn.net /Articles/87168   (1149 words)

  
 Beiqing chengshi (1989)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hou and Chu then extended the story to involve substantial flashbacks of the calamity of the woman's family in late 1940s (where the woman was the teenage daughter of Chen Song-Yong's character).
In case people would forget the sadness in our history, movie provides us to retract some part of that moment in our past time to allow us to learn what had happened around us.
I have to say this movie is worth every people with any age in Taiwan or from Taiwan to see once in your life.
us.imdb.com /Title?0096908   (384 words)

  
 Lead News Stories from the Gay People's Chronicle
Almost 50 people turned out to break their silence, discussing their feelings on the day’s events and the concept of being silent in a place where freedom of speech is paramount.
Chappele said that there is need for this type of housing because there are people with HIV and AIDS who do not qualify for public housing, but do not have the resources to pay their rent or mortgages.
Like young people all over the world who find ennui in everything they do, Sasha and his friends are searching for the ultimate high, the fast buck and a series of instant gratifications that are simply not instant enough.
www.gaypeopleschronicle.com /stories/01apr13.htm   (7221 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Taiwan questions release of arms 'wish list'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Taiwanese lawmakers, concerned about national security, have questioned the nation's chief of the general staff as to how Taipei's "wish list" of weapons it wants to buy from the U.S. was made public.
Last week the Washington Times published a fairly robust list of weapons and weapons systems Taiwanese military and government leaders are pushing the Bush administration to sell to the island democracy in the face of the mainland's rising military power.
After the list was made public, some members of the Legislative Yuan on Thursday asked chief of the general staff Tang Yao-ming if the release of the list was a case of leaked state secrets.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22096   (635 words)

  
 A Review of Chinese Word Lists Accessible on the Internet
I think they will be useful to people interested in natural language processing or text processing.
People interested in computational linguistics will also find them useful.
Among the lists reviewed, two are in the form of Usenet news articles.
technology.chtsai.org /wordlist   (344 words)

  
 Press Release & News Archive
Finally, she turns to issues of lesbian gender identities and sees how Taiwanese and Taiwanese American lesbian gender cultures provide answers toward more liberating and progressive communities.
She worked at GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) for one and a half years and focused on the representation of LGBT people of color in the media.
Since the inception in 1995, TW Email List is built, annual TW winter Camp is held, annual Feminist Lecture series is established, and a newsletter is published.
www.taiwaneseny.com /pressnews/010330news.html   (328 words)

  
 TWSA
If you would like to receive future annoucements from Taiwanese Student Association including events, services, or other announcements, please email taiwan@indiana.edu.
Many people have shown a great concern in relate to the flooding of mass advertising emails through taiwan_list.
Such restriction means all emails in attempt to be distributed to the list will need TWSA approval.
www.indiana.edu /~taiwan/joinus/list.htm   (121 words)

  
 List of famous Chinese people - Famous Chinese People - Chinese
List of famous Chinese people - Famous Chinese People - Chinese
For westernized names, the family name is placed last (for example, the family name of "Maggie Cheung" is "Cheung").
The following names are listed in alphabetic order, by family names.
www.famouschinese.com /people/List_of_famous_chinese_people   (276 words)

  
 Oscar Backstage: Clooney & Co. Captivate | 78th Annual Academy Awards : People.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
PEOPLE Top 5 are the most-viewed stories on the site over the past three days, updated every 60 minutes.
When it was time for Capote Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman to face the press, he looked at all the waving hands and said, "This is like an auction." He said winning an Oscar is a "nerve-wracking moment," though he would not describe it as a "highpoint.
As for the bet he made with a friend that he'd bark his acceptance speech should he win, Hoffman said of his moment on the podium: "I literally lost all control of my bowels up there.
people.aol.com /people/article/0,26334,1170032,00.html   (1104 words)

  
 Brown Taiwan Society
Brown has a wide variety of diverse groups on campus that are all dedicated to exploring and promoting awareness of their cultures.
Listed here are links to some major Taiwanese and Taiwanese-American organizations and groups.
Listing of organizations and other website links on this site does not mean that we necessarily endorse or agree with everything that these organizations support.
students.brown.edu /bts/links/links.html   (210 words)

  
 Gates Still World's Richest Person - Technology News by TechWeb
Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, remains number one on the Forbes list of billionaires, the magazine announced Thursday, with an estimated fortune of $50 billion.
Other notable technology names on the list include Michael Dell, chairman of his namesake Texas computer manufacturing firm (#12, up from #18, at $17.1 billion); Larry Ellison of Oracle (#15, $16 billion); and Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google (26 and 27, respectively, at $12.9 and $12.8 billion).
Forbes' complete list of billionaires can be found here.
www.techweb.com /showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181502732   (422 words)

  
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The list is moving from Australia to the United States, and it is inevitable that some of the path-names valid in Australia will cease to be functional.
There was one Catholic family in the town of 230 people, of German-Russian descent like most of the town, and we were allowed to play with their children.
Right now, people corresponding by electronic mail in a language such as French have two possibilities: either they ignore the diacritics, hoping that their message will be read and understood properly - or they use double characters where the diacritic follows or precedes the character which in normal spelling takes it.
www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.2/no.251-300   (16727 words)

  
 China on the Net
Embassy for the People's Republic of China located in Washington, D.C. Visions of China: 50 Years of the People's Republic from CNN
Newsletters from the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America
The Chinese Zodiac may offer you insights on yourself and people around you.
www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/China/hotlist.html   (1218 words)

  
 Salon People | Hangover at the Mile High Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For a full list of today's Salon People stories, go to the People home page.
The paper said the petite chopper "weighed 100 milligrams and was powered by an alternating current motor.
Douglas Cruickshank is the editor of Salon People.
www.salon.com /people/rogue/1999/10/09/copter   (1029 words)

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