User talk:SchmuckyTheCat/Mainland China

You make some very good points here. As one of these people who does have issues with the PRC government, but nevertheless values objectivity highly, consider your opinion taken on board. :) (Disclosure: I'm ex-mainland China. ;)

However (the thought just occurred to me while looking over my self-description of ‘ex-mainland China’): does it make sense to use said phrase when talking in a political context? I think it does, as the politics (and thus the attitudes of their respective populations towards said) of the majority of China is rather different from one of these ‘special’ regions. —Liyang (talk) 01:49, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In Hong Kong, It's still using "Mainland"(內地) to describe China (see Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau http://www.cmab.gov.hk/en/about/welcome.htm ). No negative value added. Zeuscho (talk) 14:42, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The emphases are different. "Chinese mainland" (中國大陸) stresses more on geographical partitions, while "Mainland China" focuses more on the regime. The latter is never used by the PRC government, but the former is commonly adopted. Examples: 1) from PRC govt, 2) from Taiwan govt, 3) from Macau govt. To avoid controversies, I think "Chinese mainland" is the term to use in Wikipedia when referred to the de facto territory of PRC, with Macau and Hong Kong excluded.The suffocated (talk) 06:22, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]