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	TiT Dining: Taiwan Cuisine - Adaptivity and Spirit
		Taiwanese people as young as 30 years old can often recall their childhoods in which there was not enough rice to go around--so sweet potatoes or taro roots had to be used as a supplement making a soupy rice in order to fill everyone's bowl.
		Taiwanese cuisine on the whole tends to be less spicy than Szechuan in the west but more spicy than food from northern China.
		In addition to the ever-present soy sauce, rice wine and sesame oil, Taiwanese cuisine relies on an abundant array of seasonings for flavor: Black beans, pickled radishes, peanuts, chili peppers, parsley, and a local variety of basil ("nine story tower").
	www.sinica.edu.tw /tit/dining/0695_TaiwaneseCuisine.html (1360 words)

	Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Supporters of Taiwanese independence claim that technically, documents and treaties left the legal sovereignty of Taiwan ambiguous, and the ruling KMT government of the ROC only exercised de facto control over the island.
		This culminated in a series of severe clashes between the ROC administration and Taiwanese, in turn leading to the bloody 228 incident and the reign of White Terror.
		Taiwanese culture also has influenced the West: Bubble tea and milk tea are popular drinks readily available around city centers in Europe and North America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taiwan (4421 words)

	Languages of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwanese Mandarin, like Singlish, is spoken at different levels according to the social class and situation of the speakers.
		Taiwanese is a variant of Min-nan which is spoken in Taiwan.
		Taiwanese is often seen as a Chinese dialect within a larger Chinese language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Languages_of_Taiwan (1258 words)

	History and Geography of Taiwan
		There were countless native Taiwanese rebellions against the colonialist rule of Ching Dynasty resulting the phrase "every three years a minor rebellion, every five years a major one.
		The Taiwanese Democratic Republic was established to fight against the Japanese invasion.
		Taiwanese resistance against the Japanese colonialist rule involved armed forces during the first 20 years and subsequently took various forms of self-determination.
	www.lsu.edu /student_organizations/tsa/exploretaiwan/history.html (601 words)

	Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwanese aborigines each also have distinct cultures which are thought to share 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 once Kuomintang-controlled government and the hostility of the PRC.
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Taiwan (6031 words)

	history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to writers of the period, the Taiwanese preserved and sold the flesh of aborigines as food both on the island and on the mainland, while the aborigines took heads whenever possible.
		Taiwanese men tend to be spoiled and mother-dominated, especially in families in which they are the sole male.
		Children in Taiwanese society have great difficulty attaining any kind of independence from their parents and often express great bitterness at the way their parents maintain control over them as they grow into adulthood and come to understand their culture in a deeper way.
	users2.ev1.net /~turton/history.html (6953 words)

	ATH 175 Peoples of the World
		Although the Japanese modernized the infrastructure of Taiwan during their fifty year occupation of the island by building roads and installing systems of irrigation, treatment of Taiwanese was sub par as the Japanese forced the inhabitants of the island to assimilate into Japanese culture (Taiwan.com.au 2003).
		Taiwanese law imposes a minimum age requirement of employment of 15 years for employment, so we can reasonably assume that a worker at Legacy Athletic is at least of that age (Gross 2001).
		Since the average Taiwanese family is decreasing in size, we can presume that our worker is a member of one of these smaller family units.
	www.units.muohio.edu /ath175/student/vogtjj (2434 words)

	Asia Times: Barrier to rapprochement falls
		The actual move approved by the congress was to raise the level of party resolutions to the same level of importance as clauses in the party's charter.
		Taiwanese seeking the island's de jure independence and the establishment of a Republic of Taiwan - and the cutting of any umbilical cord between Taiwan and China - are very much a minority, perhaps no more than 15 percent of the population.
		The majority of Taiwanese do not want to risk armed conflict with China over the assertion of a legal status which can have little impact on their day-to-day lives.
	www.atimes.com /china/CJ23Ad03.html (1185 words)

	TCS! Taiwanese Cultural Society v^___^v
		The signing of the Instrument of Surrender on August 15, 1945, signaled that Taiwan was to be returned to China, one of the Allied objectives from the wartime declarations.
		Supporters of Taiwanese independence claim that technically, documents and treaties left the legal sovereignty of Taiwan ambiguous, and the ruling KMT government of the ROC only exercised de facto control over the island.
		This culminated in a series of severe clashes between the ROC administration and Taiwanese, in turn leading to the bloody 228 incident and the reign of White Terror.
	www.stanford.edu /group/TCS/taiwan.htm (2482 words)

	China, Republic of (Taiwan)
		Taiwanese culture has also influenced the west: bubble tea is a popular drink readily available around the city centers or downtown areas in both Europe and in Canada and the United States.
		The Taiwanese localization movement continues to be a major driver of Taiwanese culture, both as a reaction against the previous repression of Taiwanese culture by the previously Kuomintang controlled government and against the hostility of the PRC.
		A majority of the Taiwanese population are religious believers, most of whom identify themselves as Buddhists or Taoists.
	creekin.net /n41-china-republic-of-taiwan-.html (3083 words)

	Peng - Write-to-Learn: Geography Strategies (I-TESL-J)
		In short, it is the functional purpose of teaching English as a second language through write-to-learn: geography strategies that is significant, not the occurrence of those terminology or the information in the text in isolation.
		Geography serves as a setting where dialogue around the text can be built in order to facilitate the spoken English conversation between teacher and students, and between student and student.
		Taiwanese as well as other dialects, however, is also spoken throughout the island.
	iteslj.org /Lessons/Peng-Geography.html (2149 words)

	Ami - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		They speak an Austronesian language and are one of the twelve officially recognized peoples of Taiwanese aborigines.
		The traditional territory of the Amis include the long, narrow valley between the Central Mountains and the Coastal Mountains, the Pacific coastal plain eastern to the Coastal Mountains, and the Hengchun Peninsula.
		The main chorus of it was sung by Difang (Chinese name Kuo Ying-nan) and his wife, Igay (Chinese name Kuo Hsiu-chu), part of a Taiwanese aboriginal cultural performance group.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ami (514 words)

	New Left Review - Chaohua Wang: A Tale of Two Nationalisms
		It had traditionally stood for Taiwanese independence, and as democracy was consolidated, the national side of its demands came increasingly to the fore.
		Democracy remained the primary marker of Taiwanese consciousness, as the proud achievement of the island community, distinguishing it from conditions on the mainland.
		If this might be understood as a way of celebrating the great achievement of Taiwanese democratization in 1996, the same could hardly be said for 2000 or 2004, let alone this year when the practice of adorning postage stamps with the image of current office-holders spread to the Premiership and even the mayoralty of Taipei.
	newleftreview.org /A2553 (7614 words)

	washingtonpost.com: New National Identity Emerges in Taiwan
		Textbooks that once covered only Chinese history and geography have been rewritten to focus more on Taiwan, and local dialects once banned in school are now the subject of weekly classes.
		This rise in Taiwanese nationalism could frustrate China's hopes of bringing Taiwan back into the fold by binding it to the mainland's booming economy, while strengthening the position of those in Beijing who want the military to seize the island.
		Lee Teng-hui, the first president born in Taiwan, coined the phrase "new Taiwanese" to include the mainlanders and their children, and began the school curriculum reforms, which deepened after Chen's election.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A48076-2004Jan1?language=printer (1833 words)

	Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One popular argument was that since most of the Taiwanese gentry class were tutored in classical Chinese in their childhood, minimal additional efforts would be needed to enable them to use the Chinese vernacular as a literary medium.
		This generation of Taiwanese writers was struggling to break away from the past and to usher in progressive social visions.
		Taiwanese literature of the 1990s tends to use mixed genres and multilingual devices, drawing on a wide range of both global and local cultural codes, idioms, and traditions, to express the fluid, albeit disoriented, structure of feelings.
	www.roc-taiwan.org /taiwan/5-gp/yearbook/2003/chpt19.htm (18276 words)

	Taiwanese Conflicted Over China (washingtonpost.com)
		But when she called her publisher recently to ask for her share of the profits, she was told the editor had fled with her cash.
		Just as they are fascinated by the opportunity to do business and communicate with their overpopulated neighbor, Taiwanese are also repelled by China's corruption, political repression and fly-by-night business practices.
		Chinese officials acknowledge that the white paper also illustrated a sense of crisis in Beijing that the Taiwanese are slipping away from China, generating fear that such threats may be the only way to halt the trend.
	www.richmond.edu /~vwang/ps345/art112.htm (1400 words)

	NZ-Taiwan relations review NZJEAS
		In 1994 nearly 5000 Taiwanese emigrated to New Zealand, compared with about six and a half thousand to each of the USA and Canada and six hundred odd to Australia.
		Tania Boyer pioneered this when she was a masters student of geography at Auckland under Hong-Key Yoon and her thesis (Boyer 1995a) led to a chapter in Yoon's compendium (Yoon 1995, Boyer 1995b) and an article in Asia Pacific Viewpoint (Boyer 1996).
		Yoon 1995: Yoon, Hong-Key (ed), An Ethno-Geography of Taiwanese, Japanese and Filipino Immigrants in Auckland, Auckland, Department of Geography, University of Auckland, 1995
	www.vuw.ac.nz /~caplabtb/nztw_nzjeas.html (3330 words)

	Getting to know Taiwan
		Geography tests require students to identify China's rivers and major mountain ranges, but not those of Taiwan.
		History lessons cover extensively the atrocities committed by Japan during World War II in China, but give scant attention to the massacre by mainland Chinese of 20-28,000 Taiwanese in 1947, and totally ignore the political repression that followed.
		Students must study quaint intellectual movements preceding the Nationalist overthrow of the Chinese imperial dynasty in 1911, but not the Taiwanese self-rule movement under the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945).
	www.taiwandc.org /nws-9715.htm (301 words)

	Geography of Taiwan: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Geography of Taiwan: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Location: Eastern Asia, islands bordering the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait, north of the Philippines, off the southeastern coast of Mainland China.
		Post a link to definition / meaning of " Geography of Taiwan " on your site.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ta/Taiwanese-geography.html (179 words)

	Politics in Taiwan
		Due to extremely harsh treatment of native Taiwanese by greedy and corrupt Chinese administrators, a revolution on Taiwan (called the "228 Revolution") broke out on February 28, 1947.
		It was believed that at least 50,000 people were cruelly massacred by the Chinese army and military police in the revolution; more than one third of those killed were Presbyterian Christians.
		At this time, he declared martial law on Taiwan and ruled the Taiwanese as harshly as the Japanese had before him.
	www.lsu.edu /student_organizations/tsa/exploretaiwan/politics.html (488 words)

	Mu Lan Restaurant
		Taiwanese food is a simple, rustic cuisine which makes the best use of the most naturally abundant ingredients.
		Taiwanese cuisine on the whole tends to be less spicy than Sichuan in the west of China but more spicy than food from North.
		As the Taiwanese had to make do with very little, they showed remarkable creativity when it came to cuisine.
	mulan.4t.com (232 words)

	GOH SUI NOI, It's Taiwan culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		President Chen is actively promoting Taiwanese culture, which he says is distinct from that which exists on the mainland.
		TAIPEI—Drawing a line between Chinese and Taiwanese culture, President Chen Shui-bian yesterday stressed that Taiwan's culture was not a frontier Chinese culture, but had its own independent and self-determining characteristics.
		The President had also spoken about the development of a Taiwanese culture in his inauguration speech on May 20, a move that Beijing feared would steer the island's people further away from mainland China.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55/653.html (308 words)

	Japan's Era in Taiwan: Effects of Assimilation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Taiwanese were permitted to carry on local customs within their communities, such as guaahi, or gezixi in Chinese, the Taiwanese version of Chinese opera.
		Lai, a biochemist, was born in 1930 in Taiwan.
		Lin was born in 1927 in the Taiwanese town of Huwei.
	tacpa.org /column/Articles/JapanInTaiwan.html (3341 words)

	USC TSA: About Taiwan
		Meanwhile, the native Taiwanese, about 85% of the population, continue to speak the Holo of Hakka dialects of their ancestors.
		With the arrival of the KMT and its army in 1949, Chinese Mandarin became the official language.
		Thanks to the valiant struggle for freedom and democracy of thousands, including clergy from the Presbyterian Church, by the end of the 1980s martial law had beed abrogated, the ban on opposition parties lifted, and a wide variety of political ideas allowed to circulate.
	www.usc.edu /dept/TSA/abt_twn.html (924 words)

	AnnaLee Saxenian: The Silicon Valley-Hsinchu Connection: Technical Communities and Industrial Upgrading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These highly skilled Taiwanese immigrants are distinguished from the broader Chinese Diaspora (or “overseas Chinese business networks”) by shared professional as well as ethnic identities and by their deep integration into the technical communities of both technology regions.
		Taiwanese engineers like Gerry Liu turned increasingly to entrepreneurship in the 1980s and 1990s, in response both to the perception of a “glass ceiling” in the established companies and to the emergence of supportive ethnic networks and role models.
		The Taiwanese case also suggests that regions seeking to participate in global technology networks should devote as much attention to expanding education and training, creating institutions to support new firm formation, and building ties to Silicon Valle as to attempting to lure foreign investment.
	www.sims.berkeley.edu /~anno/papers/sv_hsinchu.html (8892 words)

	Biographies
		Her most recent publications are the chapter 'Taiwanese Americans' in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (Carol and Melvin Ember, eds.) and the article 'Work and Social Network Composition among Immigrants from Taiwan to Southern California' in Anthropology of Work Review.
		She was the former chair of the geography department, director of the Population Studies Center (1991-1997), and president of the Taiwan Population Association.
		She is currently Associate Professor of Geography at York University, leader of the Economy Domain of the Toronto Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS), and leader of the Transportation and Commerce Research Thrust of Geomatics for Informed Decision Making (GEOIDE), one of Canada's networked centres of excellence.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~salaff/conference/biographies.htm (1830 words)

	Scott Sommers' Taiwan Weblog : More on Taiwanese Language Education
		Many people are 'learning' Taiwanese, but most of them are residents of southern Taiwan, and they are not learning it by studying in a school, but rather through the processes of natural language acquisition.
		This site from the University of Kent at Canterbury states that, "Taiwanese is spoken by 80 percent of the population", but since there is no definition of what "speaking Taiwanese" means or how proficiency could be assessed, I presume this to be a ceiling estimate.
		My brief reading of Mair's article indicates that he is concerned with preserving Taiwanese as the conduit of the Taiwanese culture, which it will increasingly have trouble doing if it does not adopt a workable written form.
	scottsommers.blogs.com /taiwanweblog/2005/11/more_on_taiwane.html (2471 words)

	Print Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The School of Geography in conjunction with the Trend Foundation (Taipei) is inaugurating a new three-year scholarship for Taiwanese students wishing to undertake research for a Ph.D. degree at the School in Leeds.
		The School of Geography has a long tradition of research in East Asia, both in the Chinese speaking world and in Japan.
		The degrees need not be in Geography, but if not, should be in a cognate discipline (such as Economics, Political Science or Sociology).
	www.britishcouncil.org /print-page?id=506247 (195 words)

	Taiwanese Law
		As Taiwan over the years developed into a prosperous and democratically governed country, with real constitutional freedoms for all, Taiwanese and mainlanders, the prospect of reunification with the dictatorial and relatively poor mainland was far from attractive.
		Most Taiwanese motherboard makers, computer-chip factories, desktop computers and notebooks manufacturers moved their production lines to China (Acer, Mitac, and contractors for Dell, HP etc.).
		When they protested and demonstrated the KMT governor sent the army, killing 20.000 Taiwanese, http://www.uta.edu/accounting/faculty/tsay/feb28hd.htm; under Chiang Kai-shek and until the second half of the eighties Taiwanese people were excluded from the political and economic power centres, only mainlanders had political functions and privileges.
	www.law.kuleuven.ac.be /taiwaneselaw (4252 words)

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