Music of Taiwan

Music Of Taiwan

Taiwan is densely-populated and culturally diverse, including a majority of benshengren (including the Holo and Hakka peoples), a powerful faction (around 15%) waishengren who arrived with Chiang Kai-shek in the middle of the 20th century and the minority of aboriginal peoples.

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