The view from both sides of the Straits

Yin Min-chi, a 19-year-old journalism major at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

I was born in Taiwan but raised in the mainland from an early age, so I understand life on both sides of the Straits very well.

More than 20 years ago, my mother, who is from Taiwan, met my father when she was working in the Shanghai office of a Taiwan business. Dad was a local man, but after they married, my parents moved to Taiwan.