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4 unusual facts about Mainland Chinese


Festival of the Lion King

Simplified Chinese subtitles, for Mainland Chinese visitors, are also projected onto the screens above each seating section.

Mainland Chinese

At the time when Hong Kong was colonised by Great Britain, the colony first covered only Hong Kong Island, with a population of only around 6 000, most of whom were fishermen.

Other than the indigenous population on Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territories who had lived in the area before the British arrived, most people in Hong Kong either immigrated from somewhere in mainland China, or were descendants of those immigrants.

Taste of Apples

One aspect of their lives that his stories treat is the way in which their lives contrast with Mainlanders and Mainland culture.


Little Taipei

(Taipei is the capital city of Taiwan.) Today, the area includes less Mainland Chinese and Chinese-Vietnamese immigrants.

Taiwanese identity

During the period of Martial Law, when the Kuomintang (KMT) was the only authorised party to govern Taiwan, the KMT government has "modified" Taiwan's history from a Greater China perspective and lump the pre-existing Hoklo and Hakka with the Mainlanders as Chinese, who came to Taiwan and forced aboriginal communities into the mountains.

Verbatim Corporation

Verbatim also resells relabeled products from Japanese, Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, Malaysian and Indian factories (Pearl White DVD series in Europe, some CD-R not labeled Super Azo), including but not limited to products by Taiyo Yuden, Ritek Corporation, CMC Magnetics, Prodisc, Moser Baer, Daxon/BenQ.


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Chan Siu Kwan

After returning from a short training period with mainland Chinese side Guangzhou R&F, Chan Siu Kwan returned to Hong Kong and joined Yokohama FC Hong Kong in summer of 2012.

Early 2012 Hong Kong protests

In January 2012, Ken Wai, a Hong Kong passenger, asked a Mainland Chinese woman and her child to stop eating on an MTR subway in Mandarin Chinese on a train bound for Mong Kok East Station.

Freedoms of the air

Anchorage is still used by some mainland Chinese and Taiwanese airlines for flights to the U.S. and Toronto until 2000s.

International Mayor Communication Centre

With China in the midst of the one of the greatest economic development periods in humans history and having a population participation in the largest mass migration in human history, the challenges faced by mainland Chinese cities are numerous.

Kunqu

Today, Kunqu is performed professionally in seven Mainland Chinese major cities: Beijing (Northern Kunqu Theatre), Shanghai (Shanghai Kunqu Theatre), Suzhou (Suzhou Kunqu Theatre), Nanjing (Jiangsu Province Kunqu Theatre), Chenzhou (Hunan Kunqu Theatre), Yongjia County/Wenzhou (Yongjia Kunqu Theatre) and Hangzhou (Zhejiang Province Kunqu Theatre), as well as in Taipei.

Lantian

Sichuan Lantian Helicopter Company Limited, mainland Chinese aeronautics company based in Sichuan

Liuxing Hudie Jian

It is the basis of a 1976 film Killer Clans, a 1978 television series produced by Hong Kong's CTS, the 1993 film Butterfly and Sword, a 2003 mainland Chinese television series and a franchise of video games.

Nam Cheong Station

As "Nam Cheong" is also the Cantonese-based transliteration for Nanchang, some sources mistakenly state that the station was named after the mainland Chinese city.

Very Busy

The lead single "這就是愛嗎?" was written by popular Singapore singer-songwriter JJ Lin, while the song "永遠的愛人" was written by the famous Mainland Chinese singer Han Hong.

Yinxiang

Yinxiang Motorcycle (银翔摩托), mainland Chinese company based in Chongqing

Yuki no Hana

It was also covered by Mainland Chinese singer Han Xue on August 2004 in Mandarin; and by Hong Kong singer Vincy Chan in 2006, in Cantonese.