FAMILY REUNIONS PROVE THAT BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER

Nearly 70 years after the Kuomintang regime's flight to Taiwan, the descendants of those who moved are attempting to discover their mainland roots, as Li Lei reports.

The end of the Chinese Civil War (1946-49) saw an estimated 1 million soldiers and civilians loyal to the Nationalist Kuomintang flee the Chinese mainland and decamp to Taiwan.

Nearly four decades of confrontation followed, and cross-Straits relations only began to thaw in the late 1980s.