“uānn-thiap–ê” describes a close friendship formed by a blood-brothers style pact, wherein two friends exchange cards with information on each other (name, age, place of origin, family history), to forge a kinship. Now it’s used to describe good friends. ...
What is the origin of pineapple cakes? During its time as a dependency of Japan (1895-1945), the pineapple was a major contributor to the economy of Taiwan, and under Japanese rule, many different cultivars were introduced into the country from overseas. By the 1930s, the country had becom...
All variants of Hokkien dialects, be it Amoy, Taiwanese and those spoken in South East Asia, can be traced to two sources of origin: Quanzhou speech and Zhangzhou speech. Both Amoy and Taiwanese are based on a mixture of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou speeches, while the rest of the Hokkien dialect...
The family characteristics include the education level of parents (equals 1 if the father/mother of the student has graduated from high school), parental migrant status (equals 1 if the father/mother of the student did not live with children during the most of last semester), and household ...