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Waishengren, [a] sometimes called mainlanders, are a group of migrants who arrived in Taiwan from mainland China between the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II in 1945, and Kuomintang retreat and the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. They came from various regions of mainland China and spanned multiple social classes.
Mainland Chinese or mainlanders are Chinese people who live in or have recently emigrated from mainland China, defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (PRC) except for Hong Kong (SAR of the PRC), Macau (SAR of the PRC), and the partly-PRC-controlled South China Sea Islands (uninhabited and disputed), and also excluding certain territories that are claimed by the PRC ...
Mainland Chinese; Waishengren, a term used in Taiwan to refer to mainland Chinese who moved to Taiwan after 1945 and their descendants; People from Greater Vancouver, used by residents of British Columbia.
Philipp Mainländer (5 October 1841 – 1 April 1876) was a German philosopher and poet.Born Philipp Batz, he later changed his name to "Mainländer" in homage to his hometown, Offenbach am Main.
Nonetheless, Hainanese people still refer to the geographic mainland as "the mainland" and call its residents "mainlanders". [15] [better source needed] Before 1949, the Kinmen and Matsu islands, were jointly governed with the rest of Fujian Province under successive Chinese governments.
Locust (Chinese: 蝗蟲; pinyin: Huángchóng) is an ethnic slur against the Mainland Chinese people in Hong Kong. [1] The derogatory remark is frequently used in protest, social media, and localist publications in Hong Kong, especially when the topics involves the influx of mainland Chinese tourists, immigrants, parallel traders, and the pro-democracy movement.
Taiwanese people [I] are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of China (ROC) and those who reside in an overseas diaspora from the entire Taiwan Area.The term also refers to natives or inhabitants of the island of Taiwan and its associated islands who may speak Sinitic languages (Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka) or the indigenous Taiwanese languages as a mother tongue but share a common culture ...
Being less attractive in the eyes of Hong Kong local born women, many of these young mainlanders generally had to find spouses in Mainland China. Soon after the Mainland government opened its door for economic development and after the signing of Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984, there was a massive relocation of industrial activities ...