After the later establishment of the People's Republic of China and its adoption of Hanyu Pinyin, the use of Zhuyin today is limited, but it's still widely used in Taiwan where the Republic of China still governs.

In May 2011, a food scandal broke out in Taiwan where DEHP ( a chemical plasticizer and potential carcinogen used to make plastic ) was found as a stabilizer in drinks and juice syrups.

The University has general exchange agreements with many European and US universities and maintains a special exchange program agreement with National Chiao Tung University ( NCTU ) in Taiwan where the exchange students from the two universities maintains offices for, among other things, helping local students with applying and preparing for an exchange year as well as acting as representatives ( NCTU Europe – NCTU students at Chalmers, Chalmers Asia – Chalmers students at NCTU ).

In Taiwan, where the Nationalist Party ( Kuomintang ) strongly promoted Confucian beliefs in ethics and behavior, the tradition of the memorial ceremony of Confucius ( 祭孔 ) is supported by the government and has continued without interruption.

The CPC defeated the Nationalists in 1949, forcing Chiang's government to retreat to Taiwan, where Chiang imposed martial law and persecuted people critical of his rule in a period known as the " White Terror ".

Chiang moved the government to Taipei, Taiwan, where he formally resumed duties as President of the Republic of China on March 1, 1950.

His name is also written in Taiwan as " The Late President Lord Chiang " ( 先總統 蔣公 ), where the one-character-wide space known as nuo tai shows respect ; this practice has lost some popularity.

The Kuomintang retreated to the island of Taiwan, where it still remains to this day.

In January 1885 the Foreign Legion's 4th Battalion ( chef de bataillon Vitalis ) was deployed to the French bridgehead at Keelung ( Jilong ) in Formosa ( Taiwan ), where it took part in the later battles of the Keelung Campaign.

This has made its adoption difficult with the established user base from Hong Kong and Taiwan where traditional Chinese is the official language.

( see History of Taiwan ) Further, the Dutch East India Company trade post on Dejima ( 1641 – 1857 ), an artificial island off the coast of Nagasaki, was for a long time the only place where Europeans could trade with Japan.

It was envisioned as the model for the eventual reunification with Taiwan and other islands, where the Republic of China has resided since 1949.

In 1975, she emigrated from Taiwan to her family's 36 acre ( 14. 6 hectare ) estate in Lattingtown, Long Island, New York, USA, where she kept a portrait of her late husband in full military regalia in her living room.

The terrain in Taiwan is divided into two parts: the flat to gently rolling plains in the west, where 90 % of the population lives, and the mostly rugged forest-covered mountains in the eastern two-thirds.

Taoism is freely practiced in Taiwan, where it claims millions of adherents.

Due to its original usage in scattered isolated regions where communication is limited to the local area, the Hakka language has developed numerous variants or dialects, spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces, including Hainan island, Singapore and Taiwan.

He later became part of Chiang's Nationalist Government and finished his life as the " Strategic Adviser of the President " in Taiwan, where he died in 1954.

A study in Taiwan of marriages where the future bride is adopted in the groom's family as an infant or small child found that these marriages have higher infidelity and divorce and lower fertility than ordinary marriages.

In some cases, where the boundary is not demarcated, such as Ladakh plateau, the Taiwan Strait, and Occupied Kashmir, both sides define a line of control that serves as international border de facto ; but in the case of Kashmir, it is a temporary solution to the ongoing strife.

* The term border dispute applies only to the many cases where a limit territory bordering more than one state ( including an enclave in one state such as Nagorno Karabakh ) is claimed by two or more, not the very existence of a whole state challenged ( such as the Republic of China, which the People's Republic of China regards as a defunct and illegitimate entity, with its current jurisdiction of Taiwan claimed by the PRC as its 23rd province ).

The generally low-lying terrain of the central areas on the western side of the municipality slopes upward to the south and east and especially to the north, where it reaches at Cising Mountain ( 七星山 ), the highest ( extinct ) volcano in Taiwan in Yangmingshan National Park.

After the KMT lost the Mainland in the Chinese Civil War, the government was evacuated to Taiwan, where the term limits for the President specified in the 1947 constitution were suspended.

Since the mid-1990s, the standard practice used of the PRC press has been to refer to ROC government as the " Taiwan authority " () and the ROC President as the " leader of the Taiwan Area " (), where both terms are not used in conjunction with quotation marks.

Many other regions with unique dishes and styles are represented in China, including Hakka, Macau, Hainan, Taiwan, and Northeast cuisines.

Hakka is one of the major Chinese subdivisions or varieties and is spoken natively by the Hakka people in southern China and the island of Taiwan and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia and around the world.

Pronunciation differences exist between the Taiwanese Hakka dialect and China's Guangdong Hakka dialect, and even in Taiwan two local varieties of Hakka exist within that dialect.

In Taiwan, there are two main dialects: Sixian ( Hakka: Siyen 四縣 ) and Haifeng ( Hakka: Hoi Foong 海豐 ), alternatively known as Hailu ( Hakka: Hoiluk 海陸 ).

Hakka dialect speakers found on Taiwan originated from these two regions.

It was colonized by the Dutch in the 17th century, followed by an influx of Han Chinese including Hakka immigrants from areas of Fujian and Guangdong of mainland China, across the Taiwan Strait.

During the 40 years of Dutch colonial rule of Taiwan, many Han Chinese from the Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Hakka regions of mainland China were recruited to help develop Taiwan.

In the following years, in order to prevent people from rebelling, the Qing court instituted a ban on migration to Taiwan, especially the migration of Hakka people from Guangdong province, which led Hokkien to become a prestige language in Taiwan.

Some dislike the name Taiwanese as they feel that it belittles other variants such as Mandarin, Hakka, and the aboriginal languages which are spoken on Taiwan.

This involves the teaching of the history of Taiwan, geography, and culture from a Taiwan-centric perspective, as well as promoting languages locally established in Taiwan, including Taiwanese Hokkien ( Taiwanese ), Hakka, and aboriginal languages.

*** Qiu Fengjia 丘逢甲 ( 1864-1912 ; Jiaoling, Guangdong ; born in Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Hiew Fung Kap ), Leader, Taiwanese resistance forces, Japanese invasion of Taiwan, 1895 ; Feng Chia University in Taichung is named in honor of him

*** Wu Po-hsiung 吳伯雄 / 吴伯雄 ( 1939 -; ancestral Yongding, Fujian ; born in Zhongli, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Ng Pak Hiung ), Chairman, Kuomintang, 2007 -; Mayor, Taipei, 1988 – 1990

*** Hsu Hsin-liang 許信良 / 许信良 ( 1941 -; ancestral Raoping, Guangdong ; born in Zhongli, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Hee Sin Leong ), Co-founder and chairman, Democratic Progressive Party, 1991 – 1994, 1996 – 1998

*** Tsai Ing-wen 蔡英文 ( 1956 -; born in Taipei, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Chai Yin Vun ), Present and first female Chairperson, Democratic Progressive Party, 2008 -; Vice-premier, Republic of China, 2006 – 2007

** Standard Chinese, the standard form of the Chinese language in China, Taiwan and Singapore, and the variety most commonly taught as a foreign language

Before and during World War II, when Japan occupied Korea, Taiwan, parts of China, the Philippines, and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire.

It is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), the official language of the Republic of China ( R. O. C ./ Taiwan ), and one of the four official languages of the Republic of Singapore.

It also functions as the language of instruction in the PRC and in Taiwan.

Chinese speakers refer to the modern standard language as Pǔtōnghuà 普通话 ( on the mainland ), Guóyǔ 國語 ( in Taiwan ) or Huáyǔ 华语 ( in Malaysia and Singapore ), but not as Guānhuà.

It is related to the Tagalog language of the Philippines as well as the languages spoken by the indigenous people of Taiwan and Sri Lanka.

These languages are of unique historical significance, since most historical linguists consider Taiwan to be the original homeland of the Austronesian language family.

These languages are of unique historical significance, since most historical linguists consider Taiwan to be the original homeland of the Austronesian language family.

The largest linguistic group in Taiwan, in which Hokkien is considered a native language, is known as Hoklo or Holo ( Hō-ló ).

In the first decades of the 18th century, the language difference between the Chinese Qing imperial bureaucrats and the commoners was recorded by the first Imperial High Commissioner to Taiwan ( 1722 ), Huáng Shújǐng, a Beijinger sent by the Kangxi Emperor, during whose reign Taiwan was annexed in 1684:

During the Japanese colonial rule, Japanese language became an official language in Taiwan.

During Kōminka of the late Japanese colonial period, Japanese language appeared in every corner of Taiwan.

Only after the lifting of martial laws in 1987 and mother tongue movement in the 1990s did Taiwan see a true revival in the Taiwanese language.

The language of the Anti-Secession Law was clearly directed at the independence supporters in Taiwan ( termed "' Taiwan independence ' secessionist forces " in the law ) and designed to be somewhat amicable for Pan-Blue Coalition.