Perpetual Foreigners: Chinese Americans and the U.S. Opening to China.

2 This article refers to "China" as the regime in mainland China, named the People's Republic of China, and "Taiwan" as the regime on the island of Taiwan, named the Republic of China. 129 "LüMei huaqiao he huayi Meiguo renshi relie huanyin ZhongMei jianjiao xiwang Taiwan fangmian yi guojia wei zhong zaori huigui zuguo [U.S.-based overseas Chinese and Americans of Chinese descent enthusiastically welcome U.S.-China normalization, hoping that Taiwan respects the nation and returns to the motherland soon]", I People's Daily i , December 19, 1978, 5. The new leader of China reiterated the message to Taiwan "compatriots": Beijing would "take into account the present realities in Taiwan, respect the opinions of the people in Taiwan, and adopt reasonable policies" in seeking to unify the island.[131] With a violent takeover unlikely, the new status quo in the Taiwan Strait, and the new relationship between Chinese Americans and China, seemed acceptable for all sides. In the fall of 1980, sinologist Wei Peh T'i revisited her hometowns in China, Nanjing and Chongqing, for the first time since she left for New York in 1947, at age sixteen. [Extracted from the article]