Cantonese nationalism
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Cantonese nationalism is a political movement that supports the independence of Guangdong or Cantonese-majority areas (Guangdong with Guangxi and, sometimes, Hong Kong and Macau) from China. Proponents of this movement seek to establish a sovereign state or an autonomous entity that recognizes the distinct cultural and linguistic identity of the Cantonese people.
Historically, the roots of this sentiment can be traced back to reformist ideas proposed by figures such as
After the Wuchang Uprising of Hubei in 1911, various circles in Guangdong "planned Guangdong self-independence." On November 9, the Guangdong Counseling Bureau announced Guangdong's independence from the Qing Court. The gentry class in Guangdong had tasted the taste of modern political participation in the reform of the Advisory Council in the late Qing Dynasty. For them, the Xinhai Revolution was an opportunity for them to lead the practice of Guangdong's independence.[1]
In the present day, there are some advocates of "Cantonian independence", which promotes the concept of establishing a Cantonese nation-state by gaining independence from China. There were multiple incidents of people carrying the Kapok Flag and shouting slogans representing "Guangdong independence" in overseas demonstrations, or even acting within Mainland China and Hong Kong, against the Chinese government.
Differences between Mandarin and Cantonese
Chinese languages have many differences, but they are considered one for political reasons.[2]
History
During the Xinhai Revolution,
During the conversation, Blake told Li Hongzhang: "Considering the current situation in North China, the moment is a good opportunity for the two Guangdong and Guangxi to separate from the Qing court. We should be ready to protect our interests."[5]
After the failure of the Guangdong-Guangzhou Independence Plan, He Qi continued to persuade Hong Kong and Britain about his ideas and plans for the transformation of the Chinese dynasty. On July 21, He Qi reported that Blake supported the establishment of a republic in South China. On August 1, He published an article based on the political platform in the English newspaper Dechen West. [6]
There were "more than 200 participants" according to the respondents from Guangdong and overseas Chinese in Japan.[7] The organization's sponsors also visited Sun Wen, who was living in Yokohama at that time, to discuss ways to raise money. The cooperation between Guangdong students studying in Japan and the Xingzhong Association began.[8]
In 1903, one year after the start of "New Guangdong", Hunan anti-Qing people studying in Japan Yang Yulin published a page called "New Hunan". Ou Jujia deeply influenced Yang Yulin's argument. Yang also advocated the dissolution of the Ministry of China.[9]
On May 8, 1905, the Qing Military Division sent a letter to the provincial governors to strictly ban "New Guangdong", "New Hunan", and "Xin Min Cong Bao" which promoted reform or revolution.[10]
At the onset of the
In Culture
Between 1902 and 04, Ou Yujia published an improved Cantonese opera script "Huang Xiaoyang Huihui" (full name "New Bunkan Banben Huang Xiaoyang Huitou") under the pseudonym "New Guangdong Wusheng" in New Novels. The play clearly promotes the idea of Guangdong independence in "New Guangdong", and dramatizes the independent strategy proposed by Os's "New Guangdong". The protagonist Huang Chongqiang is the reincarnation of Huang Xiaoyang, the leader of the Guangdong peasant uprising in the Ming Dynasty. The title of the play has the so-called "turning back", that is, reincarnation. Ou Yujia used the folk songs of "Nine Cows Float on the Water, Xiao Yang Turns Back" and "Big Stone Sinks to the Bottom, White Goose Floats, Thirty Years Later, Xiao Yang Turns Back" to achieve the purpose of propaganda. The plot of this play is that Huang Chongqiang led everyone to lead Guangdong to independence, and Huang Chongqiang Zhong advocated that "the future independence of Guangdong depends on the Si people." Ou Yujia even echoed the Philippine War of Independence at that time, in which Aguinaldo finally decided to bury the national policy of "protecting the independence and autonomy of Guangdong, China".[12][13]
Japanese right-wing writer Masahiro Miyazaki conceived the plot of South China's division under the Sino-Japanese conflict in his 1999 military novel "China's Guangdong Army Uprising".[14]The plot follows after Deng Xiaoping's death, with the turmoil in China leading the successor Li Bingzhang's regime to decide to expand Taiwan, the South China Sea and India to divert the contradictions, and the withdrawal of US troops from Japan also led to a full-scale crisis in Japan. The protagonist of the novel is a Japanese female painter who travels to Kashmir to meet a secret organization that cooperates with the triad to support the independence of Guangdong and Tibet. China was plunged into chaos, which led to war clouds in East Asia at the end of the century.
Japanese novelist Mori mentions Guangdong independence in two of his works. In his military novel The New Japan-China War published in 1995–2003, Morinaka writes about a plot involving Deng Xiaoping's internal power struggle in China leading to regional conflict, with Cantonese independence playing a role.[15] Mori's later military novel The New Japan-China War-The Century of the Raging Waves which is written in the fictional 2020s, this movement is featured also.[16]
Chinese dissident writer Wang Lixiong's novel The Yellow Peril depicts the independence of the southeastern coastal provinces, including Guangdong, from Beijing in order to protect their own interests as a result of the internal power struggle in the People's Republic of China. This eventually led to the Chinese Civil War, which eventually spread into a global war[17]
In terms of computer games, Republic of China Warriors, a turn-based strategy game set in the Republic of China, allows players to choose from various modern powers in Greater China, including Cantonese,
Social impact
At the working conference of the
On September 11, 2008, Southern Metropolis Daily published a full-page report titled "If Guangdong is an Independent Economy". The article stated, "Let's imagine that if Guangdong is a country. If we try to observe China in a new way from the viewpoint of outsiders, and if China's provinces are regarded as independent countries, Guangdong will become the 14th largest economy in the world."[20]
See also
- Secession in China
- Vietnamese nationalism
- Hong Kong nationalism, Hong Kong independence
- Taiwanese nationalism, Taiwan independence movement
- Demographics of China
- Ethnic minorities in China
- Racism in China
- Ethnic groups in Chinese history
- Autonomous administrative divisions of China
- Administrative divisions of China
- Autonomous regions of China
- Anti-Secession Law
- List of active separatist movements in Asia
- List of varieties of Chinese
- Languages of China
- Lists of languages
- List of languages by number of native speakers
- List of languages by total number of speakers
- Protection of the varieties of Chinese
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- ^ "粵系-民國無雙官方網站". ChengLap (in Cantonese). Archived from the original on 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
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- ^ "假如广东是独立经济体 经济总量位列世界第14". SCMP. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
External links
- Xia Xiaohong: New Guangdong: From Politics to Literature Archived 2021-09-09 at the Wayback Machine Academic Monthly