Nicholas Garcia's List: Taiwanese Culture

Over four-fifths of the people are descendants of Han Chinese settlers  who came to the island in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries  from southeastern China. They were joined in 1949 by remnants of the  Nationalist party and army that left China after their defeat in the  Chinese Civil War (1927–1949). The island's original  inhabitants (    Yuanzhumin    ), who are related to Malayo-Polynesian peoples of Southeast Asia, have  lived on the island for thousands of years. The culture is a blend of  aboriginal cultures,