Sentence examples for a mainlander from inspiring English sources

Taiwan uses traditional characters while the mainland uses simplified ones, and a mainlander may have difficulty reading a Taiwan newspaper.

Don't speak Mandarin either because people will think you are a mainlander.

To his critics it matters that Mr Wang, a staffer for 16 years, is a mainlander.

The handsome Mr Ma may be a mainlander, but his charisma and his popularity could compensate for that.

One agent juggled three cellphones and a notebook on her lap, desperately trying to secure a bed for a mainlander who was due to give birth in September.

The firm, founded in 2006 by a mainlander who studied engineering in Hong Kong, has become a leading light in the industry.

In the central business district here (a k a Central), mainlanders educated overseas are more prized than their English- and Cantonese-speaking peers.

But then an orphaned mainlander named Nessa arrives.

Although he is staunchly pro-Hong Kong, he is far removed from the stereotype of a xenophobic Mainlander-bashing Hong Kong'er sometimes portrayed in overseas media.

These have included steep taxes on apartment purchases by anyone who is not a permanent resident, notably mainlanders; a ban on pregnant visitors from the mainland, who had been clogging Hong Kong's obstetric wards so as to gain legal residency for their offspring; and the shelving of a plan for schools to teach a patriotic education course extolling the Communist Party.

"It is not possible to protest in China, so we come here instead," a middle-aged mainlander told Keith during the march, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid government retaliation.