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324: 650:(1907–1948), also known as the "Eastern Jewel", was a Manchu princess raised in Japan, who spied for the Japanese in Manchuria. After the war, she was arrested and convicted of treason and executed. She has been featured in numerous Chinese and Japanese novels, films, television programs, and video games, with the Chinese frequently depicting her as a wanton villain and seductress while the Japanese portrayed her as a tragic heroine. Due to her Manchu ethnicity and Japanese background, some feel that she should not be considered a hanjian. 39: 315:, or collaborationists, when observing the era of the Sino-Japanese War: “the educated and intellectuals, who simply wanted to get power and wealth for themselves, and the poor and uneducated, whose poverty drove them to collaborate and whose ignorance saved them from even thinking they had to justify what they were doing.” Due to this notion and the modern ambiguity of the term, each of these two categories had various motives with the majority being different but some overlapping. 280: 31: 693: 503: 421:
however, paid particular attention to “female collaborators” and deployed a highly gendered vocabulary to attack hanjian suspects of both sexes. Complementing the legal purge of collaborators, such literature brought extreme pressure on individuals targeted as hanjian and influenced how political crimes should be exposed and transposed onto other aspects of social life.
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is one that emerged from a “conflation of political and ethnic identities, which was often blurred in the expression of Chinese nationalism.” It was/is applied to individuals who are designated collaborators and by which were not all ethnically Han. The modern usage of the term stems from the Second
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The centerpiece of anti hanjian laws, “Regulations on Handling Hanjian Cases (chuli hanjian anjian tiaoli),” promulgated in August 1937, identified collaborators based on their wartime conduct and stipulated punishments regardless of their age, gender, or ethnicity. Popular anti-hanjian discourse,
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sought to be the dominant governmental force in China and believed it could do so by collaborating and being submissive to Japan in what they deemed their “Peace Movement.” Wang found resistance to his government when he visited cities, such as Shanghai, and “intellectuals who showed sympathy for
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Sino-Japanese War in which circumstances forced political figures in China to choose between resistance and collaboration. Nuance in understanding not just why some Chinese chose to cooperate with Japanese but as well as inquiring why cooperation made sense to people at that time has opened up
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by describing it as “negotiating with the Japanese in an attempt to preserve China’s resources, protect its people, and slowly erode Japan’s control over China.” He fled to Japan after the war but was extradited back to China, where he was convicted of treason and
295:. Clockwise from top right: a hanjian being beaten by a mob; a hanjian who sends a signal to enemy aircraft will die in an air raid; the severed head of a hanjian put on display as a warning to others; a hanjian will be arrested and shot. 560: 478:, a prominent Chinese industrialist and philanthropist in Southeast Asia, proposed to the provisional Republic of China government to treat all Chinese who attempted to negotiate with the Japanese as 577:. He was arrested by the PRC government in 1949 and charged with treason but was pardoned later. As he was an ethnic Mongol and not a Han Chinese, some feel that he should not be deemed as a hanjian. 664:, but after Chinese authorities discovered her Japanese ancestry she was acquitted and deported to Japan. As she was the daughter of Japanese immigrants, some do not consider her to be a hanjian. 397:. Because martial law was enforced, formal trials were not necessary, and the condemned were executed swiftly, while thousands of men, women and children watched with evident approval. 794: 639:
as acting chairman after Wang's death in November 1944. Chen was accused of “plotting with the enemy” and “opposing the central government.” Chen defended his work with the
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is distinct from the general word for traitor, which could be used for any country or ethnicity. As a Chinese term, it is a digraph of the
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Popularly, most hanjian in Chinese films and drama series, skits, Hanjian are mostly the translators. Sometimes they are also called the
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titled "Fate of Hanjians", published by the Capital City Resistance War Supporters Association of All Citizens, was posted throughout
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Xia, Yun (2013). "Engendering Contempt for Collaborators: Anti-Hanjian Discourse Following the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945".
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into being an ambiguous term in modern history rather than the black and white one that it is so often used as.
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Passivity, resistance, and collaboration : intellectual choices in occupied Shanghai, 1937–1945
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is often reserved for those who were either scholars or within government. The most infamous
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commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. He died of heart and stomach problems in jail.
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that if he surrenders, the Japanese officer will have a great beautiful offer for him.
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interpretation issued in January 1946 that advised against such action.
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Collaboration : Japanese agents and local elites in wartime China
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Collaboration : Japanese agents and local elites in wartime China
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of the Wang Jingwei government, is seen as China's most prominent
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Reorganized Nationalist Government of the Republic of China
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one part of the lyrics is 殺漢奸 meaning "kill traitors".
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Taiwanese soldiers who fought in the Japanese military
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Nanking residents with armbands of the Japanese flag
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Han Jian


traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
Han Chinese
Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese


Simplified Chinese


Han
Standard Mandarin
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Wade–Giles
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
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Battle of Nanking

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