mainlander

plural mainlanders · alternative Mainlander

1. Someone who lives on the mainland.
2. A person from mainland China, as opposed to someone from Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan.

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   Since many factories have not been repaired or are operating at low capacity, there is much unemployment. Repatriation of overseas Taiwanese has aggravated the problem, which the government has made no real effort to solve. During the war the Japanese built at Chiayi a large factory for making high-octane gas. Now it is closed, and one-fifth of the town's population are out of work. It is not surprising that at Chiayi last month there was fierce fighting against the mainlanders.

   1947 June 7, Peggy Durdin, “Taiwan : China's Unhappy Colony”, in The Nation, volume 164, number 23, New York, page 686

3. Someone who lives in mainland Europe, as opposed to the British Isles.

1. Alternative letter-case form of mainlander (“a person from mainland China”).

   In Pan-ch’iao of Taiwan county, people gathered at the railway station on the morning of February 28 and began beating Mainlanders or rounding them up and assembling them in one place.

   1991, Tse-han Lai, Ramon H. Myers, Wei Wou, “The Uprising”, in A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122