Taiwan siblings who traced their roots find bright futures, embrace heritage

Thanks to a copy of their family tree belonging to their late grandfather, Lin Yen-chen, a young man from Taiwan, and his brother and sister were able to track down their mainland relatives.

The three siblings crossed the Taiwan Straits to trace the family's origins, and are now studying at Peking University, a long-held wish of their grandfather's that he didn't live to see come true. "I wanted to follow in my grandfather's footsteps to see the places that had a place in his heart," said 31-year-old Lin, a doctoral student at Peking University's School of International Studies.

His younger brother Lin Kuan-ting, 29, also a doctoral student at the same school, said: "Our grandfather always cared for the motherland. He taught us to study hard and to serve the motherland."