A former Taiwanese president’s use of it raises hackles on the island
The mainland and Taiwan share a “common inheritance of blood, language, history and culture”, Mr Ma told Song Tao, China’s head of Taiwan affairs, during his unprecedented 12-day trip which ends on April 7th. He has also said that people on both sides of the strait are “descendants of the Yan and Huang emperors”, the mythical ancestors of ethnic-Han people, who form more than 90% of China’s population, and of Taiwan’s.
Most Taiwanese are descendants of people who migrated from the mainland over the past few hundred years, and who have retained many features of their ancestral culture. But such matters touch on highly sensitive politics. China stresses the importance of these ethnic bonds: in its view, they reinforce its claim to the island. Many Taiwanese prefer to emphasise what makes them different.. It can mean “Chinese ethnicities” , or “Chinese nation” in the sense of a culturally bound people.
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