Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dwells on the mainland.
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- noun Someone who lives on the
mainland .
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Examples
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So my experience is that those in that situation generally identify as mainlander and rarely as anything else.
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Somehow no matter the fact that I am born in Taiwan and has a Taiwanese mother, I am still being called a mainlander by others and deemed untrustworthy.
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Somehow no matter the fact that I am born in Taiwan and has a Taiwanese mother, I am still being called a mainlander by others and deemed untrustworthy.
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Despite the widespread belief that Taiwan has an identity separate from China's, voters have consistently backed the so-called mainlander parties, including the Kuomintang KMT, which was long associated with violent repression of the democracy movement.
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Despite the widespread belief that Taiwan has an identity separate from China's, voters have consistently backed the so-called mainlander parties, including the Kuomintang KMT, which was long associated with violent repression of the democracy movement.
Taiwan's Fading Independence Movement? Or Robert Ross' Fading Understanding?
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But there is some nuance about this "mainlander" issue.
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Lo Fu Chu created this gang while serving time where he could make connections with other small time local hoods in an effort to compete with the big "mainlander" gangs.
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The "mainlander" identity is entirely a political identity created by the KMT to split locals who otherwise had common interests, and divide and rule them.
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They're easily distinguished from "mainlander" gangs - families of people who followed the defeated armies of Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan after the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war in 1949 and served the Nationalists so faithfully during the martial law era.
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They're easily distinguished from "mainlander" gangs - families of people who followed the defeated armies of Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan after the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war in 1949 and served the Nationalists so faithfully during the martial law era.
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