Sentence examples for that mainlanders from inspiring English sources

In an opinion piece in Global Times, a populist mainland newspaper, Wendy Wang, a freelance writer from Shanghai, noted that mainlanders had long been derided on Hong Kong television, with men often portrayed as mobsters and women as flirty or worse.

But the seven million residents of Hong Kong increasingly fear that mainlanders are challenging them for services, for property and to some extent for their cultural identity.

As for China, those critics who have seen the film have noted its "provincialism", a slur that mainlanders usually reserve for Taiwan's independence movement.

China increased the number of travel agencies authorized to organize tours to the semi-autonomous territory to 67 in January, from 4 last year, so that mainlanders now account for nearly half of all visitors here.

Many Hong Kongers accuse the well-heeled mainlanders of driving up the price of real estate — an odd charge, indeed, given that the speculative flipping of apartments seems to be encoded into everyone's DNA in the S.A.R. (Meanwhile, it is widely believed here that mainlanders are worried about the social and political stability of China and are using Hong Kong real estate to park their money).

Even though the island's inhabitants are full American citizens, they don't benefit from important federal programs that mainlanders do.

"It was a big deal for them that the mainlanders couldn't access Wikipedia".

Someday it may be possible to work out a political arrangement that both mainlanders and Taiwanese find acceptable.

In the days after the accident, social media here were awash in commentary that blamed mainlanders like Mr. Ma for upending Singapore's gracious, well-mannered ways.

"Our government doesn't want it, so there weren't clear instructions," said Tzu-Chiang Liou, 31, another organizer, who ended up signing a document making him the guarantor that the mainlanders would return.

The island's early historic character, he says, was preserved so well during the Victorian era because "[Nantucketers] could not afford the bad taste that the mainlanders could".