Editing Mainland China (section)

===Taiwan (Republic of China)===
[[File:ROC1979-05 National Assembly Secretariat China Map.pdf|thumb|The ROC map shown as of May 1979 in the Sixth Session of the First National Assembly]]
[[File:Republic of China (Taiwan) (orthographic projection).svg|thumb|Currently, the scope of the “mainland area” defined in Taiwan's law (light green)<ref name="Mainland Affairs Council"/>]]

References to the PRC and other lost continental territories as the mainland began appearing in Taiwan state documents as early as 1954.<ref name="法规ROC4">{{Cite web |title=解释字號：释字第31号 |url=http://jirs.judicial.gov.tw/ |accessdate=4 November 2018 |language=zh-hant |author1=司法院 |website=司法院法學資料檢索系統判解函釋 |location=台北 |archive-date=7 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207151537/http://jirs.judicial.gov.tw/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation |chapter=Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan |author=Bi-Yu Chang |chapter-url=https://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/Castles%20in%20the%20Sand.pdf |url-status=live |title=Building castles in the sand |publisher=[[Routledge]] |date=2015 |access-date=2 July 2022 |archive-date=2 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702152424/https://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/Castles%20in%20the%20Sand.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/221-greater-china-made-in-taiwan/ |author=Frank Jacobs| title=A Map of Greater China, Made in Taiwan |date=23 July 2010 |work=[[Big Think]] |access-date=2 July 2022 |language=en-GB |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521151734/https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/221-greater-china-made-in-taiwan/ |archive-date=21 May 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Legal definitions followed in the 1990s. The 1991 [[Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China]] stated that "the handling of people's rights and obligations and other affairs between the free area and the mainland can be specially stipulated by law", and used the legal term "mainland area" without defining its geographical boundaries.<ref name="法规ROC6">{{Cite web |title=中华民国宪法增修条文 |url=https://lis.ly.gov.tw/lglawc/lawsingle?00067773FB3C000000000000000000A000000002000000^04105080042200^00027002001 |accessdate=4 November 2018 |language=zh-hant |author1=立法院 |website=立法院法律系統 |location=台北}}</ref> The 1992 Regulations on the Relations between the People in Taiwan and the Mainland defined "Taiwan" as areas controlled by the ROC and "mainland" as "the territory of the Republic of China."<ref name="法规ROC5">{{Cite web |title=台湾地区与大陆地区人民关系条例 |url=https://lis.ly.gov.tw/lglawc/lglawkm?@@2039384855 |accessdate=4 November 2018 |language=zh-hant |author1=立法院 |website=立法院法律系統 |location=台北 |archive-date=11 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211115457/https://lis.ly.gov.tw/lglawc/lglawkm?@@2039384855 |url-status=live }}</ref> The related [[Cross-Strait Act]] called those under PRC jurisdiction - excluding those in Hong Kong and Macau - as "people of the mainland area", and used "[[free area of the Republic of China]]" to describe areas under ROC control.<ref name="ROC Constitution">[http://www.taiwandocuments.org/constitution04.htm Additional Articles to the Republic of China Constitution] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170515000850/http://www.taiwandocuments.org/constitution04.htm |date=15 May 2017 }}, 6th Revision, 2000</ref> The issue on the mainland's territory also stated in the [[Judicial Yuan]] Interpretation No. 328 in 1993.<ref name="cons.judicial.gov.tw">{{Cite web |title=No.328 |url=https://cons.judicial.gov.tw/en/docdata.aspx?fid=100&id=310509 |access-date=23 July 2022 |website=cons.judicial.gov.tw |archive-date=23 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723065449/https://cons.judicial.gov.tw/en/docdata.aspx?fid=100&id=310509 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="法规ROC10">{{Cite web |title=香港澳門關係條例施行細則 |url=https://db.lawbank.com.tw/FLAW/FLAWDAT0202.aspx?lsid=FL016532&ldate=20160111 |website=法源法律网 |accessdate=16 November 2018 |archive-date=10 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010174047/https://db.lawbank.com.tw/FLAW/FLAWDAT0202.aspx?lsid=FL016532&ldate=20160111 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, the [[Supreme Court of the Republic of China]]'s judgment #900 labeled the [[Macau|Macao Special Administrative Region]] as the "Mainland's Macau Area".<ref name="法规ROC11">{{Cite web |title=裁判字號：101年台上字第900號 |url=http://jirs.judicial.gov.tw/ |accessdate=4 November 2018 |language=zh-hant |author1=司法院 |website=司法院法學資料檢索系統判解函釋 |location=台北 |archive-date=7 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207151537/http://jirs.judicial.gov.tw/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The 2002 amendments to the Implementation Rules of the Regulations on People Relations between Taiwan and mainland China defined the mainland as areas claimed but not controlled by the ROC, corresponding to "areas under control of the [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese Communists]]" (within the ''[[de facto]]'' [[borders of China|borders of the People's Republic of China]]).<ref name="Mainland Affairs Council">{{cite web |title=Laws and Regulations Regarding Mainland Affairs |url=https://www.mac.gov.tw/en/News_Content.aspx?n=4F2E0C155DF44564&sms=2C46F5E37DC2E1D2&s=4597A146F5AF7D3C |website=[[Mainland Affairs Council]] |access-date=30 May 2018 |quote=Article 3: The enforcement areas of Subparagraph 2 of Article 2 of the Act shall refer to areas under control of the Chinese Communists.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例施行細則 |url=https://law.moj.gov.tw/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=Q0010002 |website=法務部全國法規資料庫 |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=3 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403002507/https://law.moj.gov.tw/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=Q0010002 |url-status=live |quote=中共控制之地區}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=中華民國立法院法制局研究成果《外蒙古定位後續問題評析》|url=http://www.ly.gov.tw/ly/04_library/0401_orglaw/orglaw_search/orglaw_search_04.jsp?ItemNO=04020200&f91_number=821 |author=邱政宗 |date=March 1991 }}{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}}</ref>

Views of the term "mainland China" ({{lang|zh-TW|中國大陸}}) vary on Taiwan. During the [[Dang Guo|Dangguo era]], the KMT had previously referred to the territories under the control of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) by several different names, e.g. "(territory controlled by the) [[Communist bandit]]s", "occupied/unfree area (of China)", "Communist China" (as opposed to either "Nationalist China" or "Democratic China"), "Red China" (as opposed to "Blue China"), and "mainland China (area)".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/news/kuan0416/3/1281895827/20060101013524/ |title=台灣小學課本裡的「共匪」（管仁健／著） |access-date=10 November 2019 |archive-date=27 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327075035/http://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/news/kuan0416/3/1281895827/20060101013524 }}</ref> In modern times, many of these terms have fallen out of use. The terms "mainland China" ({{lang|zh-TW|中國大陸}}) or "the mainland" ({{lang|zh-TW|大陸}}) still remain in popular use, but some also simply use the term "China" ({{lang|zh-TW|中國}}). The former term is generally preferred by the [[Pan-Blue Coalition]] led by the KMT, while the latter term is preferred by the [[Pan-Green Coalition]] led by the [[Democratic Progressive Party]] (DPP), which opposes the term "mainland" and its suggestion that Taiwan is part of China. This has caused many political debates.<ref name="Wachman">{{Cite book|title=Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization|last=Wachman|first=Alan|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|year=1994|page=81|author-link1=Alan M. Wachman}}</ref><ref>[http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/07/23/2003538429 DPP is firm on China name issue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508152838/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/07/23/2003538429 |date=8 May 2021 }}. Taipei Times (14 July 2013). Retrieved on 2013-07-21.</ref>