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{{Short description|Largely archaic name for China}}
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{{More citations needed|date=June 2009}}
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{{Expand Japanese|支那|date=September 2025}}
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{{Names of China}}
'''''Shina''''' is a largely archaic name for [[China]]. Its use in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] originally had a neutral connotation, but the word came to be perceived as derogatory by [[Chinese people]] during the course of the [[First Sino-Japanese War|First]] and [[Second Sino-Japanese War]]s. As a result, it fell into disuse after [[World War II]] and is now viewed as offensive, with the standard Japanese name for China being replaced by {{Nihongo||中国|Chūgoku}}.

During the [[2019–2020 Hong Kong protests]], the word was used as a form of protest against the [[Chinese government]] but also as a [[xenophobic]] remark against mainland Chinese.

== Origins and early usage ==
{{see also|Names of China#Names in non-Chinese records|Chinas}}
The [[Sanskrit]] word {{lang|sa|चीन}} ({{transliteration|sa|Cina}}), meaning "China", was [[Transcription into Chinese characters|transcribed]] into various forms including {{lang|zh|支那}} ({{lang|zh-Latn|Zhīnà}}), {{lang|zh|芝那}} ({{lang|zh-Latn|Zhīnà}}), {{lang|zh|脂那}} ({{lang|zh-Latn|Zhīnà}}) and {{lang|zh|至那}} ({{lang|zh-Latn|Zhìnà}}). Thus, the term ''Shina'' was initially created as a transliteration of {{transliteration|sa|Cina}}, and this term was in turn brought to [[Japan]] with the spread of [[Chinese Buddhism]]. Some scholars believe that the Sanskrit {{transliteration|sa|Cina}}, like [[Middle Persian]] {{Transliteration|fa|Čīn}} and [[Latin]] {{lang|la|Sina}}, is derived from the name of the [[state of Qin]], which founded a [[Qin dynasty|dynasty]] ({{lang|zh|{{linktext|秦}}}}, [[Old Chinese]]: {{Transliteration|och|*dzin}}) that ruled China from 221 to 206 BC, and so ''Shina'' is a return of ''Qin'' to Chinese in a different form.

The Sanskrit term for China eventually spread into China, where its usage was closely related to Buddhism. A [[Tang dynasty]] (618–907) poem titled ''Ti Fan Shu'' ({{lang|zh-hant|題梵書}}, literally "topic of a [[Sanskrit]] book") by [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang]] uses the term in Chinese {{lang|zh|支那}} ({{lang|zh-Latn|Zhīnà}}) to refer to China, which is an early use of the word in China:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xgc2000.net/xwh/03/3/37227.html |title=读诗杂记；唐明皇称呼中国为"支那"的一首诗 }}</ref>
{{verse translation|lang=zh-hant|italicsoff=yes
|《題梵書》
鶴立蛇形勢未休，
五天文字鬼神愁。
'''支那'''弟子無言語，
穿耳胡僧笑點頭。
|"{{Transliteration|zh|Ti Fan Shu}}" ("Topic of a Sanskrit book")
Whether the situation is straight-up or winding is unclear.
Texts from India have the ghosts and gods worried.
The disciples in '''''Zhina''''' are speechless.
The monk with pierced ears nodded with a smile.
}}

==Early modern usage==
[[File:China I.J.P.O 5sen in 1900.JPG|thumb|right|A 1900 [[Japan Post]] 5-sen stamp with ''Shina'']]
[[File:World around 1900.jpg|thumb|right|A Japanese illustration of 1914 depicting the nations as animals – with Russia as a bear smoking a pipe, China as a pig consulting a barometer, India an elephant, Britain a carp, Germany a boar, etc.]]
[[File:1937-china-map.jpg|thumb|right|A 1937 Japanese map of ''Shina'']]
[[File:Tokyo Asahi shinbun 1937-08-14.JPG|thumb|right|[[Asahi Shimbun]] reporting on the Shanghai incident of 14 August 1937, referring to the Republic of China as "''Shina'' tyranny"]]
[[File:1939 掌中北支‧蒙疆詳圖 The New Minutiae Pocket Atlas of Hokusi-Mokyo.jpg|thumb|The 1939 New Minutiae Pocket Atlas of Northern Shina, Mongolia and Xinjiang]]
The Latin term for China was {{lang|la|Sinae}}, plural of {{lang|la|Sina}}. When [[Arai Hakuseki]], a Japanese scholar, interrogated the Italian missionary [[Giovanni Battista Sidotti]] in 1708, he noticed that {{lang|la|[[Sinae]]}}, the Latin plural word Sidotti used to refer to China, was similar to ''Shina'', the Japanese pronunciation of {{lang|ja|支那}}. Then he began to use this word for China regardless of dynasty. Since the [[Meiji Era]], ''Shina'' had been widely used as the translation of the Western term "China". For instance, "[[sinology]]" was translated as "{{transliteration|ja|Shinagaku}}" ({{lang|ja|支那學}}).

At first, it was widely accepted that the term ''Shina'' or ''Zhina'' had no political connotations in China. Before the Chinese [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republican era]], the term ''Shina'' was one of the names proposed as a "generalized, basically neutral Western-influenced equivalent for 'China{{' "}}.  Chinese revolutionaries, such as [[Sun Yat-sen]], [[Song Jiaoren]], and [[Liang Qichao]], used the term extensively, and it was also used in literature as well as by ordinary Chinese. The term "transcended politics, as it were, by avoiding reference to a particular dynasty or having to call China the country of the Qing". With the [[Xinhai Revolution|overthrow of the Qing]] in 1911, however, most Chinese dropped ''Shina'' as foreign and demanded that Japan replace it with the Japanese reading of the [[Chinese characters]] used as the name of the new [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]] {{nihongo||中華民國|Chūka Minkoku}}, with the short form {{nihongo||中國|Chūgoku}}.<ref>Douglas R. Reynolds. ''China, 1898–1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan.''(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1993 {{ISBN|0674116607}}), pp. 215–16 n. 20.</ref>

Nevertheless, the term continued to be more-or-less neutral. A Buddhist school called {{lang|zh-Latn|Zhīnà Nèixuéyuàn}} ({{lang|zh-hant|支那內學院}}) was established as late as in 1922 in Nanjing. In the meantime, ''Shina'' was used as commonly in Japanese as "China" in English. Derogatory nuances were expressed by adding extra adjectives, e.g. {{langx|ja|暴虐なる支那兵|bōgyaku-naru Shina-hei|cruel Shina soldiers}} or using derogatory terms like {{Nihongo||チャンコロ|chankoro}}, originating from a corruption of the [[Taiwanese Hokkien]] pronunciation of {{Lang-zh|t=清國奴|poj=Chheng-kok-lô͘|l=[[Qing dynasty]]'s slave}}, used to refer to any "[[chinaman (term)|chinaman]]" or "[[chink]]".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nihongomaster.com/japanese/dictionary/word/103291/chankoro-%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AD | title=Japanese Meaning of チャンコロ, chankoro }}</ref>

Despite interchangeability of [[Chinese character]]s, Japan officially used the term {{Nihongo||支那共和國|Shina Kyōwakoku}} from 1913 to 1930 in Japanese documents, while {{lang|zh-Latn|Zhōnghuá mínguó}} ({{lang|zh-hant|中華民國}}) was used in Chinese ones. {{lang|ja-Latn|Shina kyōwakoku}} was the literal translation of the English "Republic of China" while {{Transliteration|ja|Chūka minkoku}} was the Japanese pronunciation of the official Chinese characters of {{lang|zh-Latn|Zhōnghuá mínguó}}. The Republic of China unofficially pressed Japan to adopt the latter but was rejected.

Japan rejected the terms {{Transliteration|ja|Chūka minkoku}} and its short form {{lang|ja|中國}} ({{Transliteration|ja|Chūgoku}}) for four reasons:
# A term referring to China as [[Names of China#Middle Kingdom|the "Middle kingdom"]] or the "center of the world" was deemed arrogant
# Western countries used "China"
# ''Shina'' had been the common name in Japan for centuries
# Japan already has a [[Chūgoku region]], in the west of its main island [[Honshu]].

The name {{Transliteration|ja|Chūka minkoku}} was officially adopted by Japan in 1930, but ''Shina'' was still commonly used by the Japanese throughout the 1930s and 1940s.<ref name="Fogel2012">Joshua A. Fogel, [http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp229_shina_china.pdf "New Thoughts on an Old Controversy: Shina as a Toponym for China"], Sino-Platonic Papers, 229 (August 2012)]</ref>

== Post-war derogatory connotations ==
[[File:Shina Soba of Ramen shops.JPG|thumb|right|A ramen store in Japan selling "''Shina'' soba"]]

The [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] fixed the impression of the term ''Shina'' as offensive among [[Zhonghua Minzu|Chinese people]]. In 1946, the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] demanded that Japan cease using ''Shina''.

In China, the term ''Shina'' has become linked with the Japanese invasion and [[Japanese war crimes]], and has been considered an offensive [[List of ethnic slurs|ethnic slur]] ever since.

In modern Japan, the term {{nihongo||中華民国|Chūka Minkoku}} refers to the [[Republic of China]], while {{nihongo||中華人民共和国|Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku}} refers to the [[People's Republic of China]]; the terms use the same Chinese characters (with Japanese ''[[shinjitai]]'' simplifications) used officially in both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. Likewise, in most cases, words previously containing ''Shina'' have been altered; for example, the term for [[sinology]] was changed from {{nihongo||支那学|Shinagaku|extra="''Shina'' studies"}} to {{nihongo||中国学|Chūgokugaku}} or {{nihongo||中華学|Chūkagaku|extra="Chinese studies"}}, and the name for the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] has changed from terms such as {{nihongo||支那事變|Shina jihen|extra="The China Incident"}} and {{nihongo||日支事變|Nisshi jihen|extra="The Japan-Shina Incident"}} to {{nihongo||日中戦争|Nitchū sensō|extra="Japan-China War"}}.

Writing ''Shina'' in Japanese is considered socially unacceptable and subject to ''[[kotobagari]]'', especially the kanji form; if ''Shina'' is used, it is now generally written in [[katakana]] ({{lang|ja|シナ}}) rather than with the kanji ({{lang|ja|支那}}), which in Japanese serves as a way to [[minced oath|spell offensive words]] ({{cf.}} English "f*ck"). As such, the term has survived in a few non-political [[compound word]]s in Japanese, and even (rarely) in Chinese. For example, the [[South China Sea|South]] and [[East China Sea]]s are called {{nihongo||南シナ海|Minami Shina Kai}} and {{nihongo||東シナ海|Higashi Shina Kai}}, respectively, in Japanese (prior to World War II, the names were written as {{lang|ja|南支那海}} and {{lang|ja|東支那海}}). ''Shinachiku'' ({{lang|ja|支那竹}} or simply {{lang|ja|シナチク}}), a [[ramen]] topping made from dried bamboo, also derives from the term ''Shina'', but in recent years the word {{nihongo||メンマ|menma}} has replaced this as a more politically correct name. Some terms that translate to words containing the "Sino-" prefix in English retain ''Shina'' within them, for example {{lang|ja|シナ・チベット語族}} ([[Sino-Tibetan languages]]) and {{lang|ja|シナントロプス・ペキネンシス}} (''Sinanthropus pekinensis'', also known as [[Peking Man]]). Meanwhile, one of the Chinese names for [[Indochina]] is {{lang|zh-Latn|yìndù zhīnà}} ({{zhi|c=印度支那}}).

Even so, it is still sometimes seen in written forms such as {{nihongo|''Shina'' soba|支那そば}}, an alternative name for [[ramen]], a dish which originates from China. Many Japanese are not fully aware of Chinese feelings towards the term, and generally find ''Shina'' merely old-fashioned and associated with the early and mid-20th century, rather than derogatory and racist. This difference in conception can lead to misunderstandings. The term is a slur when used toward [[Ryukyuans]] by [[Yamato people|mainland Japanese]] people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/19/national/police-officer-dispatched-osaka-insults-protesters-okinawa/#.XdufnvlME0N|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021211805/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/19/national/police-officer-dispatched-osaka-insults-protesters-okinawa/#.XdufnvlME0N|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 October 2016|title=Police officer dispatched from Osaka insults protesters in Okinawa|website=Japan Times|date=19 October 2016|access-date=25 November 2019}}</ref>

Sinologist [[Joshua A. Fogel]] mentioned that, "Surveying the present scene indicates much less sensitivity on the part of Chinese to the term ''Shina'' and growing ignorance of it in Japan". He also criticized [[Shintaro Ishihara]], a [[right-wing]] nationalist politician who went out of his way to use the expression {{transliteration|ja|Shinajin}} ({{lang|ja|支那人}}) and called him a "troublemaker".<ref name="Fogel2012"/> He elaborated further:

{{blockquote|text=Many terms have been offered as names for countries and ethnic groups that have simply not withstood the pressures of time and circumstance and have, accordingly, changed. Before the mid-1960s, virtually every well-meaning American, black or white and regardless of political affinity, referred to blacks as '[[Negroes]]' with no intention of offense or slight. It was simply the respectful name in use; and it was superior to the openly reviled and offensive term "colored," still in legal use by people in the South (to say nothing of the highly offensive term in colloquial use by this group){{nbsp}}... By the late 1960s, few if any liberals were still using 'Negro' but had shifted to 'black,' because that was declared the ethnonym of choice by the group so named.<ref name="Fogel2012"/>}}

== Current usage ==

=== In Japan ===
[[Japanese Canadian]] historian Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi mentioned that there are two classes of postwar Japanese that have continued to use derogatory terms like ''Shina'': poorly educated and/or elderly persons who grew up with the term go on using these from force of habit.<ref name="Wakabayashi">Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, "The Nanking Atrocity, 1937–38: Complicating the Picture" (2007), Berghahn Books, pp. 395-398</ref>

Some [[right-wing]] Japanese appeal to etymology in trying to ascribe respectability to the continued use of Shina, since the term Shina has non-pejorative etymological origins. Wakabayashi disagreed: "The term [[Jap]] also has non-pejorative etymological origins, since it derives from Zippangu ({{lang|ja|ジパング}}) in [[The Travels of Marco Polo|Marco Polo's ''Travels'']]{{nbsp}}... If the Chinese today say they are hurt by the terms Shina or Shinajin, then common courtesy enjoins the Japanese to stop using these terms, whatever the [[etymology]] or historical usage might be."<ref name="Wakabayashi"/>

=== In Hong Kong ===
During the [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong]], the Japanese government classified Hong Kong residents as ''Shinajin'' ({{lang|ja|支那人}}), as the term was used to refer to all who were ethnically Chinese. Hongkongers that were considered useful to the Japanese government, as well as prominent local figures such as [[banker]]s and [[lawyer]]s, were recorded in a census document called the "Hong Kong Shinajin Magnate Survey" ({{langx|ja|text=香港在住支那人有力者調查表 |translit=Honkon zaijū Shinajin yūryokusha chōsahyō}}).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=李 |first1=培德 |date= |title=香港和日本─亞洲城市現代化 的相互影響 1841 至 1947 年 |url=https://www.drnh.gov.tw/var/file/3/1003/img/29/07_06-02.pdf |journal=國史研究通訊 |volume= |issue=7 |pages=142–146 |doi= |access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref> In 2016, a Hong Kong reporter was called {{transliteration|ja|Shinajin}} by Japanese nationalist politician [[Shintaro Ishihara]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.163.com/14/1216/21/ADK7UFVL00014AEE.html |title=石原慎太郎不爽香港记者提问：请"支那人"冷静些 |access-date=13 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014061108/http://news.163.com/14/1216/21/ADK7UFVL00014AEE.html |archive-date=14 October 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In [[Hong Kong]], the Cantonese pronunciation of ''Shina'' ([[Jyutping]]: {{transliteration|yue|zi1 na5}}, [[Yale romanization of Cantonese|Yale]]: {{transliteration|yue|Jī-nàh}}; approximated in English-language sources as {{transliteration|yue|Cheena}}) is used in a derogative sense under the backdrop of ongoing [[Hong Kong–Mainland China conflict|tensions between Hong Kong and mainland China]], even in official capacity,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://qz.com/808149/im-not-a-china-cheerleader-but-hong-kong-lawmakers-use-of-racial-slurs-was-offensive-and-unnecessary/ |title=I'm no China cheerleader, but Hong Kong lawmakers' use of a racial slur was offensive and unnecessary |website=Quartz |date=14 October 2016 |first=Zheping |last=Huang}}</ref> for example by [[Localism in Hong Kong|Hong Kong localist]] politicians [[Yau Wai-ching]] and [[Sixtus Leung]] during their [[Hong Kong Legislative Council oath-taking controversy|controversial oath swearing as elected members of the Hong Kong legislature]].<ref name="scmp_cheena">{{cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2028160/vulgar-legco-rebels-must-be-suffering-deep-self-hatred |title=Vulgar Legco rebels must be suffering from deep self-hatred |website=South China Morning Post |date=16 October 2016 |first=Alice |last=Wu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Ng|first1=Joyce|title=Hong Kong Legco president makes U-turn on oath-taking by localists|date=25 October 2016|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2039928/hong-kong-legco-president-makes-u-turn-oath-taking-localists|publisher=South China Morning Post|access-date=5 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/11/03/govt-argues-in-court-that-youngspiration-duo-declined-to-take-their-oaths-as-lawmakers/|title=Gov't argues in court that Youngspiration duo 'declined' to take their oaths as lawmakers – Hong Kong Free Press HKFP|date=3 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://tw.appledaily.com/international/20161103/F2WXRISZZCOEVBPW4F6KE6T4XU/|title=港宣誓事件司法覆核開庭 港府律師：未要求釋法|publisher=Apple Daily|date=3 November 2016|access-date=11 October 2020}}</ref>

On 15 September 2012, a Hong Kong online community organized a [[Anti-parallel trading protests|protest]] against mainlanders and [[Parallel trading in Hong Kong|parallel traders]]. During the protest, some demonstrators chanted "''Cheena'' people get out!" On 24 September 2013, the Hong Kong political group Hongkongers Priority breached the front entrance of the [[Chinese People's Liberation Army Forces Hong Kong Building]], the first such incident since the handover of Hong Kong.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2013/12/131228_hongkong_china_army_protest |title=中国驻港军营首遭示威者冲击引网民大哗 |accessdate=23 July 2021 |author= |date=28 December 2013 | website=BBC News |language=Chinese }}</ref> Billy Chiu, the leader of Hongkongers Priority, later announced on social media that Hongkongers Priority had successfully broken into the "''Cheena'' Army Garrison".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guancha.cn/local/2013_12_27_195637.shtml |title= 个位数港人冲击驻港部队军营 遭到解放军制止驱逐 |date=27 December 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131150202/http://www.guancha.cn/local/2013_12_27_195637.shtml | archive-date=31 January 2014 |website= Guancha |language=Chinese }}</ref> In October 2015, an [[HKGolden]] netizen [[Cover version|remade]] the South Korean song "[[Gangnam Style]]", with lyrics calling mainland Chinese "locusts" and "''Cheena'' people", titled "Disgusting ''Cheena'' Style" ({{lang-zh|t=核突支那Style}}).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metrohk.com.hk/pda/pda_detail.php?id=197772&selectedDate=2012-10-25&categoryID=all  |title=支那STYLE擺明歧視 |website=MetroUK |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230235542/http://www.metrohk.com.hk/pda/pda_detail.php?id=197772&selectedDate=2012-10-25&categoryID=all |archive-date=30 December 2013 |date= 25 October 2012 |language=Cantonese}}</ref>

Inside Hong Kong university campuses, mainland Chinese students were referred to as "''Cheena'' dogs" and "yellow thugs" by local students.<ref name="inkstone_191011">{{cite web|url=https://www.inkstonenews.com/opinion/xenophobic-undercurrents-hong-kong-protests/article/3032492 |title=The xenophobic undercurrents of the Hong Kong protests |website=Ink Stone News |date=11 October 2019 |first=Audrey |last=Li}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20161023/19809795 |title=岭大夜鬼嘈亲内地生投诉反被骂「支那狗」|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024163154/http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20161023/19809795 |archive-date=24 October 2016|website=Apple Daily |date=23 October 2016}}</ref> On 18 September 2019, the 88th anniversary of the [[Japanese invasion of northeast China]], a celebration poster was put up on the Democracy Wall of the [[University of Hong Kong]], glorifying the Japanese invasion while advocating for democracy in Hong Kong.<ref name="inkstone_191011" /> Hong Kong journalist Audrey Li noted the xenophobic undertone of the widespread right-wing nativism movement, in which the immigrant population and tourists are used as scapegoats for social inequality and institutional failure.<ref name="inkstone_191011" /><ref name="Kuo_20190618">{{cite web|url=https://asiatimes.com/2019/06/the-hong-kong-conundrum/ |title=The Hong Kong conundrum |website=Asia Times |first= Frederick |last=Kuo |date=18 June 2019}}</ref>

In Hong Kong, some people consider [[hate speech]] and even discrimination toward mainland Chinese morally justified<ref name="wong">{{cite journal |last1=Wong |first1=Wai-Kwok |date=2015 |title=Discrimination against the mainland Chinese and Hong Kong's defense of local identity |url=https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4708&context=hkbu_staff_publication |journal=AChina's New 21st Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change |volume= |issue= |pages=23–37 |doi= |access-date= |archive-date=22 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722213710/https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4708&context=hkbu_staff_publication |url-status=dead }}</ref> by a [[superiority complex]] influenced by Hong Kong's economic and cultural prominence during the [[Cold War]], and nostalgia toward British rule.<ref name="Kuo_20190618" /> Some protesters choose to express their frustrations on ordinary mainlanders instead of the Chinese government. With rising [[tribalism]] and [[nationalism]] in Hong Kong and China, xenophobia between Hong Kongers and mainlanders is reinforced and reciprocated.<ref name="hung">{{cite journal |last1=Hung |first1=Yu Yui |date=2014 |title=What melts in the "Melting Pot" of Hong Kong? |journal=Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=57–87 |doi=10.31436/asiatic.v8i2.489 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=19 June 2015 |title=香港與內地的融合 |url=http://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20150619_book1_1(1).pdf |journal= |volume= |issue= |pages= |doi= |access-date=22 July 2021 |archive-date=18 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118021408/http://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20150619_book1_1(1).pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some critics of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement argue that the prevalence of ethnic hatred and xenophobia amongst its supporters is mostly ignored by the media, which often frames the situation as simply a fight between democracy and authoritarianism.<ref name="inkstone_191011" />

== See also ==
* [[Names of China]]
* [[Chinaman (term)|Chinaman]]
* [[Chink]]
* [[Chinky]]
* [[Locust (ethnic slur)|''Locust'']]
* [[Wokou]]
* [[Xiao Riben]]
* [[Ethnic issues in Japan]]
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* [[Joshua A. Fogel]], "The Sino-Japanese Controversy over Shina as a Toponym for China," in ''The Cultural Dimension of Sino-Japanese Relations: Essays on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'', ed. Joshua A. Fogel (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995), 66–76.
* [[Lydia H. Liu|Lydia He Liu]]. ''The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making.'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,  2004). {{ISBN|0674013077}}), esp. pp.&nbsp;76–79.
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