Line #1 Main/StereotypesOfChinesePeople


1	->''Q is for Qing\
2	She's the Chinese exchange\
3	Her manners are foreign\
4	Her habits are strange\
5	She's odd and exotic\
6	She dresses in silk\
7	Eats rice for her breakfast\
8	And never drinks milk\
9	A stereotype walking\
10	On feet bound up small\
11	The author did clearly\
12	No research at all''
13	-->-- [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2217444/1/A_Mary_Sue_Alphabet A Mary Sue Alphabet]]
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15	UsefulNotes/{{China}} has the largest population of any nation in the world (1.4 billion as of 2024). Chinese people are often stereotyped as being of a single ethnicity, when in fact the population of China is made up of many ethnic groups. The stereotypes of Chinese people in fiction are nearly always applied to the dominant ethnic group -- the Han Chinese, who were the [[UsefulNotes/DynastiesFromShangToQing founders]] of the [[ImperialChina Chinese civilization]]. The Han themselves have great internal variation regarding [[UsefulNotes/ChineseLanguage linguistic]], cultural, genetic, and [[UsefulNotes/ChineseDialectsAndAccents regional]] features -- they are often classified into sub-groups of the larger Han ethnicity.
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17	In '''Western media''', they often [[InterchangeableAsianCultures get lumped in with other East Asians]].
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19	!!Tropes common to Western and Japanese depictions:
20	[[index]]
21	* AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu: An unusually high percentage [[PlanetOfHats will know a martial art]], and it will always be a form of Kung Fu in Japanese media, never a Japanese style.
22	[[/index]]
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24	!!Western tropes specific to Chinese people alone include:
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27	* ChinaTakesOverTheWorld: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Yep]]. Because before and after [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japan]] [[Analysis/JapanTakesOverTheWorld made her bid at military conquest, failed, seemingly made a bid at global economic dominance, and also failed]], global conquest predictions have to go ''somewhere'' other than [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld the USA]].
28	* ChineseLaborer: Thousands of young Chinese men migrated to western North America and Australia in the hope of striking it rich off the [[GoldFever gold rushes]] of the mid-19th century. They quickly became resented for "stealing" jobs from British and American workers, particularly the more successful individuals. The fact that some did well for themselves, and almost all of them were men, led to seemingly well-founded fears that [[MalignedMixedMarriage Europeans in both countries would be 'out-bred']] by the YellowPeril -- since foolish, easily-swayed (and impoverished) European girls in both countries were obviously too illogical and hysterical [[EntitledToHaveYou to be trusted to do the right thing and marry another European]].
29	* ChineseLaunderer: In TheWildWest and the 19th century inner-city slums of Britain, many launderers were ethnic Chinese, and were just as frowned upon as the laborers.
30	[[/index]]
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32	In '''Japanese media''', Chinese people often have a [[NationalStereotypes much more specific depiction]]. They have prominent roles in many anime, especially in fighting anime. Not surprising, given the length of China and Japan's relationship, plus the fact that there are a lot of Chinese people on the planet. Very seldom born in Japan, members of this trope are usually from mainland China, Hong Kong or Taiwan.
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34	[[index]]
35	!!Japanese tropes specific to Chinese people include:
36	* AnimeChineseGirl: A [[UsefulNotes/{{Kawaisa}} cute]] Chinese girl, usually with a [[JustAStupidAccent variable accent]].
37	[[/index]]
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39	!!General tropes that occur in Japanese portrayals of Chinese people include:
40	* DragonLady: Chinese villainesses are often portrayed as cool, mysterious, and deadly. She will most likely have a lot of sex appeal in the form of LegFocus, ImpossibleHourglassFigure, and BuxomBeautyStandard.
41	* FunnyForeigner: Chinese is a stock funny foreigner type in anime.
42	* OldMaster: An old Chinese man is nearly always this in anime.
43	* UsefulNotes/{{Qipao}}: It is almost inevitable that a female Chinese character will wear this dress in a piece of Japanese media.
44	* StockForeignName: A high chance of having the last name 'Li/Lee', although this does have some basis in fact with Li, Wang, and Zhang being the three most common Chinese surnames. Wong is a variant that almost every character from Hong Kong gets... which, to be fair, is one of the most common surnames in Hong Kong when romanized (which would then include two common surnames and several more uncommon ones).
45	* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Will often be part of families, or organizations with a lot of power and wealth, implied to be the Triads. Examples include Mr. Chang from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', the Tao family from ''Shaman King'', and the Li family from CCS.
46	* VerbalTic: They will be portrayed with particular speech idiosyncracies (such as ending sentences with ''"aru yo"''), although there's a decent chance their Chinese will actually be intelligible. This actually had to do with Japanese-Chinese relations in the 1930s. When Chinese people in Manchuria[[note]]Where the Japanese established a puppet state called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchukuo Manchukuo]][[/note]] tried to speak Japanese, they sometimes pronounced it incorrectly, and also used the word "aru" and the like. Website/TheOtherWiki has an article on this pidgin language, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyowa-go Kyowa-go]] (協和語).
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48	Examples for any of these tropes or stereotypes should go under the relevant sub-entry, not on this page.
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50	->♫ ''[[TheStinger Dadadada]] [[StandardSnippet dun-dun]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_riff dun-dun-DAAAA!]]'' ♫

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