Shandonger

plural Shandongers

1. A native or inhabitant of Shandong, China.

   As I am a Shandonger, notorious for their stubborn northern accent, the comment I often received was 'How come you don't have an accent?'

   2024, Yue Zhao, Qian Gong, “The unbearable weight of the accent”, in Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson, Maggie McAlinden, editors, Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia, New York, NY: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 66–67

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   He ridiculed the ignorance of party officials, referring to them disparagingly as "this bunch of Shandongers" and so forth, who "don't know anything but live off the [Communist] party."

   1994, Julia F. Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1979, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 199

   We can divide 1.3 billion people into different groups, say, geographically into thirty groups such as Henaners, Hebeiers, Shandongers, Shanxiers, Beijingers.

   2017, Zhang Weiying, translated by Gao Qian, The Road Leading to the Market, Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, page 3

   The internal forces, "famine, unrest, and overpopulation [...] summarized the hostile living environment, which trapped most Shandongers in abject poverty".

   2020, Zhang Yan, translated by Ernest Leung, “The British Recruitment Campaign for the Chinese Labour Corps during the First World War and the Shandong Workers' Motives to Enroll”, in Jan Schmidt, Katja Schmidtpott, editors, The East Asian Dimension of the First World War: Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914–1919, Frankfurt-on-Main: Campus Verlag GmbH, →ISBN, page 389