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	Taiwanese (linguistics): Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Taiwanese is similar to the speech of the southern part of Fujian (additional info and facts about Fujian) because most Taiwanese have ancestors who migrated from there in the 17th (additional info and facts about 17th) to 19th (additional info and facts about 19th) centuries.
		Taiwanese has extremely extensive tone sandhi (additional info and facts about tone sandhi) (tone-changing) rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules.
		In English, the phrase Taiwanese languages is also sometimes used to refer to the Austronesian language (The family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia) s spoken by the aborigines (A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived) of the island.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/taiwanese_(linguistics).htm (3812 words)

	Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwanese aborigines each also have distinct cultures which are thought to share the common ethnic origins with the Pacific Islanders.
		Taiwanese culture also has influenced the West: Bubble tea and milk tea are popular drinks readily available around city centers in Europe, Canada and the United States.
		The Taiwanese localization movement continues to be a major driver of Taiwanese culture, as a reaction against both the previous repression by the previously Kuomintang-controlled government and the hostility of the PRC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taiwan (4299 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Taiwanese in Taiwan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During this period the Taiwanese and the Mainland Chinese were divided into separate and mutually resentful political camps and social communities, a division reinforced by the political repression used by the Mainland Chinese to control the Taiwanese majority and the groups' leaders.
		The Taiwanese, given that they have gained greater economic status and the fact that they far outnumber the Mainland Chinese, reversed the situation and took control of the island's politics.
		Today native Taiwanese are the majority in the KMT, DPP, and People First Party (PFP, established in 2001), while the Mainland Chinese are a majority only in the New Party, a marginal entity in Taiwanese politics.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=71303 (718 words)

	Taiwanese language and pronunciation
		Taiwanese is a dialect of Mĭn Nán (Southern Min) spoken in Taiwan.
		The ancestors of the majority of Taiwanese people came from the southern part of Fùjiàn province and their language is very similar to the language of that region, particular to the dialect of Xiàmén.
		Until the 1980s use of the Taiwanese language was banned in schools and the number of Taiwanese programmes on the radio and television was restricted.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/taiwanese.htm (264 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Taiwanese American
		Taiwanese immigration had decreased by the 1990s, although there still has been some migration to the United States, especially among Taiwanese males who wish to avoid Taiwan's mandatory military conscription or to bypass the stringent academic requirements and extremely competitive nature of Taiwan's universities.
		Politically, Taiwanese Americans play a fairly active role in the politics and culture of the Republic of China which is aided in large part by recognition of dual citizenship.
		Taiwanese Americans tended to come from the political and economic elite, and as such tended to be either strongly supportive of the Kuomintang or Taiwanese independence.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Taiwanese_American (1161 words)

	Learn Taiwanese (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This section of the website on Taiwanese Southern Min is not only designed for language learners who wish to study some Taiwanese, but also as a reference guide to the Taiwanese language.
		The truth is, most children in Taiwan speak Taiwanese as their mother tongue and learn Mandarin as a second language in school, though school is not necessarily their first contact with it.
		A large number of families speak Taiwanese amongst each other but use Mandarin with their children, thus helping their children not find it so difficult when they get outside or have to go to school.
	www.glossika.com /en/dict/taiwanese/foreword.htm (947 words)

	Migration Information Source - Brain Drain and Gain: The Case of Taiwan
		Although only 4,108 returned migrants worked in the park that year, 113 of the park's 289 companies were started by US-educated Taiwanese, and 478 of the returnees hold Ph.D.'s, indicating that the returned migrants are better educated than the average worker in the park and wield influence disproportionate to their numbers.
		Thus, Taiwanese industry received critical expertise, at the moment it was most needed, from people whose advanced education had not been subsidized by Taiwanese taxpayers.
		Taiwanese migrants provided knowledge, business connections, and expertise to both the government and private sector through informal and formal networks.
	www.migrationinformation.org /Feature/display.cfm?ID=155 (1919 words)

	The Taiwanese American Heritage Committee Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is estimated the Taiwanese population in the United States will reach more than 500,000 when data from Census 2000 become available.
		Taiwanese Americans concentrate on metro areas such as L.A., NYC, Houston, and the Bay area in the Northern California.
		With remarkable work ethics, entrepreneurship, spirit of community, self-reliance, and respect for education, they have emerged as a group that is anchored the value of freedom, democracy, and rule of law.
	www.taheritage.com /twam.html (471 words)

	TS-Leng
		Taiwanese investment in mainland China is also a part of the global trend of economic internationalization.
		According to the plan, the Taiwanese division is responsible for the nose, the mainland division for the tail, the U.S. division for the engine, and the Japanese division for the main body.
		Taiwanese exports to mainland China have been investment-driven, and have had social, cultural, and even political impacts on the mainland's local development.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /TS-Leng.htm (6134 words)

	The Taiwanese American Heritage Committee Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Taiwanese American Heritage Week Committee, USA cordially invites college and high school students to participate in an essay contest regarding a personal experience of Taiwan encounter.
		The mission of the Taiwanese American Heritage Committee, USA is to promote public recognition of the contributions made by Taiwanese Americans to our nation.
		Taiwanese American Heritage Committee, USA is not responsible for late delivery by the post office.
	www.taheritage.com /essay.html (365 words)

	Eating China - Eating Taiwan: Taiwanese Food (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The major influences on Taiwanese cuisine are, as anywhere, the geographical, and historical.
		Taiwanese tempura (tian bu la) This seems to be inspired by the Japanese cooking style tempura, though with major Taiwanese characteristics, the most obvious being, that not all of the foods are battered.
		Taiwanese gorge on fruit, and no decent communal meal would be complete without a large platter of sliced fruit (it's good for digestion, your host will say).
	www.eatingchina.com /articles/art-taiwanfood.html (1390 words)

	WeeklyDig : > MULAN TAIWANESE RESTAURANT (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Taiwanese food is a branch of Chinese cooking that tends to focus on simpler, more rustic preparations of standard dishes we’ve all encountered before.
		Steaming and quick pan-frying are common techniques for Taiwanese chefs, so the food generally tastes less oily and salty than it does in most Americanized Chinese eateries.
		Mulan has stiff Taiwanese competition in the Boston area (particularly in Chinatown), but having a source of reliable cheap eats in Kendall Square is reason enough to celebrate.
	www.weeklydig.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/article.view/issueID/66682407-480b-43f0-ad2a-5f2cb7730ea5/articleID/b1821bc8-2b80-484a-a835-69fd693561bf/nodeID/5281e9d1-b493-43c5-9b63-0a3264d6b730 (882 words)

	Learn a little Taiwanese
		Taiwanese Survival Course is intensely practical and, in order to gain maximum benefit, the content of each day's lesson should be practiced with your Taiwanese friends and acquaintances.
		Taiwanese-speaking neighbors (especially old grandmothers with plenty of time and a limited range of topics) or Taiwanese shopkeepers are both ideal for conversation practice.
		Try to attend a Taiwanese-speaking church during your time of Taiwanese language study for here is a group of people who have chosen that church because they feel more comfortable using Taiwanese than Mandarin.
	users.aol.com /ChineseLLC/taiwanes.htm (436 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Taiwanese protest near Tokyo shrine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A group of aboriginal Taiwanese have staged a demonstration near Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, demanding that the names of their ancestors be deleted from the roll of those who died fighting for the Japan in the first half of the last century.
		Even Taiwanese reporters who disembarked from the buses were stopped from approaching the shrine by the police, who said there was a possibility that the group's presence could lead to violence.
		But the Taiwanese protesters insisted they were right in seeking to "liberate" the souls of their ancestors from the Japanese shrine.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/07D2FB0D-DA53-4D62-8222-C6BCD95E90F2.htm (681 words)

	USATODAY.com - Taiwanese president, vice president shot but survive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Hours after President Chen Shui-bian was wounded in an assassination attempt, Taiwanese stunned by the attack voted Saturday in an election focused on the military threat from mainland China.
		Besides picking a president, Taiwanese also voted on a referendum asking if Taiwan should beef up defenses if China refuses to withdraw missiles targeting the territory, and whether to seek peace talks with Beijing.
		Taiwanese officials refused to speculate about who staged the assassination attempt.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-03-19-taiwan-president_x.htm (912 words)

	Harvard-Radcliffe Taiwanese Cultural Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To educate students and community members alike, the Taiwanese Cultural Society hosted a panel on the 2004 Taiwanese Presidential Election on April 12th that the Harvard International Relations Council and Harvard Institute of Politics co-sponsored.
		It is up to the survivors and the Taiwanese people to remember the victims, keep this event in our consciences and ensure that tragedies like this never happen again.
		Taiwanese food and performances are also a part of this event.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~taiwan/upcoming.html (1671 words)

	Taiwanese Cinema
		Dialect film production in Taiwanese soon declined for two reasons: 1) the government attempted to unify the country by declaring Mandarin Chinese the official language of public discourse, and 2) the low-budget fare of dialect films were outclassed by the government-subsidized Mandarin films.
		Unlike standard Taiwanese fare, this film cast non- or semi-professional actors instead of famous stars and did not follow a traditional narrative structure or fit into any generic category.
		Yet this bourgeois-humanistic ideology in re-directing the look of Taiwanese cinema does generate debates when a new critical regime came into power with the rise and success of the new films.
	cinemaspace.berkeley.edu /Papers/CityOfSadness/behind2.html (2493 words)

	Taiwanese American Appeal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This recent development adds to the deep concerns of the Taiwanese American community that the Chinese leadership is attempting to use fear to influence the upcoming election in Taiwan.
		Taiwanese Americans believe that China's persistent belligerent attitude calls for further international support for a free and democratic Taiwan.
		The Taiwanese American community calls on the Clinton Administration to exert maximum leverage on China to honor its initial pledge of peaceful settlement with Taiwan, made at the time the U.S. established diplomatic relations with the PRC.
	www.taiwandc.org /nws-ch01.htm (466 words)

	Taiwanese Writing Systems (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Even though today Hanzi is taught for Mandarin, a Taiwanese speaker can transfer their Hanzi skill to Taiwanese for 70-80 percent of the time.
		TLPA (Taiwanese Language Phonetic Alphabetics) is a recently proposed standard that "fixes" Church Romanization by incorporating some of the computer adjustments and a few cosmetic modifications.
		Postconsonant Tonal spelling: for syllables ending with a postconsonant, he uses a separate set of letters to distinguish the [.] tone from the [,] and [=] tones (all of which are merged in TMSS and Phofsit).
	daiwanway.dynip.com /tw/writing.shtml (3516 words)

	Taiwanese American Professionals — (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As first-generation Taiwanese Americans pass the torch to those of us in the second generation, we need to be sure that we can convince mainstream Americans that Taiwan's democracy and way of life is worth preserving and that we as Americans have a responsibility to help protect Taiwan.
		Taiwanese youths often face difficulty in understanding their identity when raised in the United States.
		Parents are raising their children with Taiwanese discipline and values at home while their children are being influenced by American culture outside the home.
	tap.tacl.org /pastevents.php (5302 words)

	We Are Taiwanese, We Are Chinese - Worldpress.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Today around 45 percent of the island’s population considers itself exclusively “Taiwanese.” Another 45 percent claims some slightly varying mix, either “Chinese and Taiwanese” or “Taiwanese and Chinese.”; The exclusively “Chinese”; have been shrinking steadily over the last decade and now account for only 10 percent of the population.
		Of course, Taiwanese culture is part of … well not part of, actually it is quite different … well I cannot say quite different … a little bit different than the Fujien culture, the culture of my ancestors.
		Remove the equivocations and you have a Taiwanese identity comprised almost entirely of not being Chinese —; in as much as Chinese means being corrupt and ruled by communists.
	www.worldpress.org /Asia/2064.cfm (2458 words)

	(Taiwan,) a Modern Nation Through Her Language
		First, Taiwanese people has received Mandarin education in which most abstract concepts are taught with terms of Chinese characters, so the Chinese terminology in the document does directly reflect the idea more than the corresponding Taiwanese sound.
		Since colloquial words occupy the main part of Taiwanese language for elementary stage of education, it is advised to use alphabetic letters for kindergarten and in early stage of elementary school.
		The intention is to show to the world that Taiwanese people has her own literal culture, with which we are now able to express ourselves with a totally Latinized writing similar to those of Western world or with a mixed writing with Chinese characters analogous to Japanese language.
	myweb.hinet.net /home9/edutech/edutech/SP1-Modern-Nation.htm (2085 words)

	Taiwanese Collegian: publications (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Taiwanese Voices, an English newsmagazine, is created to serve as a medium for overseas Taiwanese students to communicate to others.
		The opinions and ideas of Taiwanese people in our generation, a variety of ideas and views pertaining to Taiwan politics, culture, literature, identity and language are show cased here.
		This issue of the Taiwanese Voices is dedicated to those who sweat and bled for their motherland.
	tc.formosa.org /publications/index.html (308 words)

	Remembering 2-28
		The date "February 28" is etched into the hearts and minds of the Taiwanese people like the word "Holocaust" in the history of the Jewish people.
		The event was the beginning of 40 years of repressive martial law on the island, during which Chiang's Kuomintang mainlanders ruled the Taiwanese with iron fist.
		When, after forty repressive years, the harsh martial law in Taiwan was lifted in 1987, the newly-formed Taiwanese democratic opposition and the courageous Presbyterian Church started to push the Kuomintang authorities to stop covering up the facts, and to come to a full airing of the matter.
	www.taiwandc.org /228-intr.htm (1670 words)

	Taiwanese Language De-Cal!
		The language we call Taiwanese is also known as Fukienese or Minnan (the language of Southern Min).
		Hoklo (pronounced Holo) is the root of Taiwanese, and was not spoken by a people who were genetically Chinese.
		Taiwanese Package - a useful tool for inputting Taiwanese phonetics on the computer.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~taioanoe/culture.htm (506 words)

	Taiwanese official berates U.N. policy - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GENEVA — A Taiwanese Cabinet minister, posing as a technical adviser to a nongovernmental organization, slipped into a U.N.-sponsored conference this week, where he publicly challenged a policy of excluding Taiwan from the United Nations for more than 30 years.
		Tsay Ching-Yen, a Taiwanese Cabinet minister without portfolio, led a delegation of more than 50 at a Monday session of the Global E-Business Forum, which is sponsored by the 55-nation U.N. Economic Commission for Europe.
		Tsay publicly chastised China for its policy of blocking Taiwanese participation in numerous international organizations, including the United Nations.
	washingtontimes.com /world/20031209-095048-7748r.htm (483 words)

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