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Hanjian

February 08, 2023

Not to be confused with Han jian 汗簡, the paleographic dictionary by Guo Zhongshu (d. 977)

In Chinese culture, the word hanjian (traditional Chinese: 漢奸; simplified Chinese: 汉奸; pinyin: Hànjiān; Wade–Giles: han-chien) is a pejorative term for a traitor to the Han Chinese state and, to a lesser extent, Han ethnicity. The word hanjian 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 Chinese characters for "Han" and "traitor". Han is the majority ethnic group in China; and Jian, in Chinese legal language, primarily referred to illicit sex. Implied by this term was a Han Chinese carrying on an illicit relationship with the enemy."[1] Hanjian is often worded as "collaborator" in the West.

Nanking residents with armbands of the Japanese flag
Chinese civilians assisting Japanese soldiers
Hanjian
Traditional Chinese漢奸
Simplified Chinese汉奸
Literal meaningHan traitor

History

 
A Chinese propaganda poster titled "Fate of Hanjians", published by the Capital City Resistance War Supporters Association of All Citizens, was posted throughout Nanjing soon after the Battle of Nanking. 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.

The term hanjian is one that emerged from a “conflation of political and ethnic identities, which was often blurred in the expression of Chinese nationalism.”[1] 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 Sino-Japanese War in which circumstances forced political figures in China to choose between resistance and collaboration.[1] 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 hanjian into being an ambiguous term in modern history rather than the black and white one that it is so often used as.[2]

There tend to be two types of hanjian, 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.”[3] 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.

Educated and intellectuals

Educated hanjian is often reserved for those who were either scholars or within government. The most infamous hanjian government in mainland China is Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China, often called the Wang Jingwei regime aptly named after its president Wang Jingwei. The Wang Jingwei regime 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.”[4] Wang found resistance to his government when he visited cities, such as Shanghai, and “intellectuals who showed sympathy for Wang risked ostracism, if not death.”

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the National Revolutionary Army was defeated in various battles by the Imperial Japanese Army. Chiang Kai-shek explained that hanjian espionage helped the Japanese and ordered CC Clique commander Chen Lifu to arrest the hanjians.[5] 4,000 were arrested in Shanghai[6] and 2,000 in Nanjing.[7] 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.[8]

Uneducated

Taiwanese soldiers who fought in the Japanese military against Chinese forces and the Allies are also considered to be hanjian.[citation needed] The Republic of China issued an important law in 1937:

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, 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.[9]

Several Taiwanese were prosecuted by the Nationalist government as hanjian, despite a Judicial Yuan interpretation issued in January 1946 that advised against such action.[10]

After the Sook Ching (Chinese: 肅清; pinyin: Sùqīng) or ethnic cleansing by mass murder of Chinese opposed to the Japanese occupation of Singapore and Malaya in February–March 1942, Tan Kah Kee, 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 hanjians.[citation needed] His proposal was adopted by the Second Legislative Yuan,[citation needed] and was praised by Chinese resistance fighters.

Notable people called hanjians

  • Qin Hui (1090–1155), Song dynasty chancellor who became notoriously known for treason for signing the Treaty of Shaoxing which reduced the Song to a vassal of the Jin. He was also responsible for the killing of Yue Fei, a Chinese general who won many victories against the Jin.
  • Wang Kemin (1879–1945), who collaborated with the Japanese during World War II and helped to establish the pro-Japan Provisional Government of the Republic of China (or North China Autonomous Government). After the war, he was arrested by the ROC government and tried for treason but committed suicide before his trial ended.
  • Demchugdongrub (1902–1966), commonly known as Prince De, a Mongol leader who collaborated with the Japanese. He was installed by the Japanese as the head of state of Mengjiang, a Japanese puppet state in Inner Mongolia. 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[who?] feel that he should not be deemed as a hanjian.
  • Wang Jingwei (1883–1944), a Kuomintang politician and former close aide of Sun Yat-sen, who advocated peace negotiations during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He set up the pro-Japan Reorganized National Government of China in Nanjing with the help of the Japanese.
  • Zhou Fohai (1897–1948), the second-in-command of the Wang Jingwei government Executive Yuan. He was convicted of treason after the war and sentenced to death, but Chiang Kai-shek commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. He died of heart and stomach problems in jail.
  • Chen Gongbo (1892–1946), who served as the head of the Legislative Yuan of the Wang Jingwei government, is seen as China's most prominent hanjian.[11] Chen held important positions within the Reorganized Nationalist Government of the Republic of China and succeeded Wang Jingwei 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 Reorganized Nationalist Government of the Republic of China 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.”[12] He fled to Japan after the war but was extradited back to China, where he was convicted of treason and executed.
  • Yoshiko Kawashima (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[who?] feel that she should not be considered a hanjian.
  • Yoshiko Yamaguchi (1920–2014), also known as "Li Xianglan" was one of the Seven Great Singing Stars. After the war, she was arrested and sentenced to death for starring in Japanese propaganda films, but after Chinese authorities discovered her Japanese ancestry she was acquitted and deported to Japan. As she was the daughter of Japanese immigrants, some[who?] do not consider her to be a hanjian.
  • Date Junnosuke (1892–1948), also known as Zhang Zongyuan, was a sworn brother of Fengtian Clique warlord Zhang Zongchang, who changed his nationality to Chinese in 1931, though he was of Japanese ethnicity. He took over Jinan and led a massacre of around 400 people in 1939. In 1945, he created the ultimately unsuccessful Zhang Zongchang Unit. After the war, he was arrested for war crimes and executed by firing squad.

In popular culture

In Chiang Kai-shek's Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian Aggression Song one part of the lyrics is 殺漢奸 meaning "kill traitors".

Popularly, most hanjian in Chinese films and drama series, skits, Hanjian are mostly the translators. Sometimes they are also called the er guizi (Chinese: 二鬼子, lit. second devils) or jia yang guizi (Chinese: 假洋鬼子, lit. fake foreign devils). For example, Chinese actor Chen Peisi's famous skit Zhujue yu Peijue (主角与配角, lit. the main actor and the supportive actor), Chen is acting as the supportive actor who is in a film that the character is the translator leading the way for Japanese Imperial Army. The translator represents the Army officer to send a message to the Eighth Route Army officer whose actor would be Zhu Shimao that if he surrenders, the Japanese officer will have a great beautiful offer for him.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Xia, Yun (2013). "Engendering Contempt for Collaborators: Anti-Hanjian Discourse Following the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945". Journal of Women's History. 25 (1): 111–134. doi:10.1353/jowh.2013.0006. ISSN 1527-2036. S2CID 144816452.
  2. ^ Brook, Timothy (2007). Collaboration : Japanese agents and local elites in wartime China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 245. ISBN 9780674023987. OCLC 77012551.
  3. ^ Brook, Timothy (2007). Collaboration : Japanese agents and local elites in wartime China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 231. ISBN 9780674023987. OCLC 77012551.
  4. ^ Fu, Poshek (1993). Passivity, resistance, and collaboration : intellectual choices in occupied Shanghai, 1937–1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 112. ISBN 0804721726. OCLC 27814882.
  5. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun, September 14, 1937 page 7
  6. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun, September 15, 1937 second evening issue, page 1
  7. ^ Gahō Yakushin no Nippon, December 1, 1937
  8. ^ The New York Times August 30, 1937 page 3
  9. ^ Xia 2013, p. 111.
  10. ^ Han Cheung (13 January 2019). "Taiwan in Time: The Taiwanese 'hanjian' problem". Taipei Times. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  11. ^ Zanasi, Margherita (June 2008). "Globalizing Hanjian: The Suzhou Trials and the Post–World War II Discourse on Collaboration". The American Historical Review. 113 (3): 731–751. doi:10.1086/ahr.113.3.731. ISSN 0002-8762.
  12. ^ Zanasi, Margherita (June 2008). "GlobalizingHanjian: The Suzhou Trials and the Post–World War II Discourse on Collaboration". The American Historical Review. 113 (3): 731–751. doi:10.1086/ahr.113.3.731. ISSN 0002-8762.
  13. ^ . www.5ixiaosong.com. Archived from the original on 2017-10-14.

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CantoneseJyutpingHon3 Gaan1Southern MinHokkien POJHan kanContents 1 History 1 1 Educated and intellectuals 1 2 Uneducated 2 Notable people called hanjians 3 In popular culture 4 See also 5 ReferencesHistory Edit A Chinese propaganda poster titled Fate of Hanjians published by the Capital City Resistance War Supporters Association of All Citizens was posted throughout Nanjing soon after the Battle of Nanking 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 The term hanjian is one that emerged from a conflation of political and ethnic identities which was often blurred in the expression of Chinese nationalism 1 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 Sino Japanese War in which circumstances forced political figures in China to choose between resistance and collaboration 1 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 hanjian into being an ambiguous term in modern history rather than the black and white one that it is so often used as 2 There tend to be two types of hanjian 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 3 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 Educated and intellectuals Edit Wang Jingwei Educated hanjian is often reserved for those who were either scholars or within government The most infamous hanjian government in mainland China is Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China often called the Wang Jingwei regime aptly named after its president Wang Jingwei The Wang Jingwei regime 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 4 Wang found resistance to his government when he visited cities such as Shanghai and intellectuals who showed sympathy for Wang risked ostracism if not death During the Second Sino Japanese War the National Revolutionary Army was defeated in various battles by the Imperial Japanese Army Chiang Kai shek explained that hanjian espionage helped the Japanese and ordered CC Clique commander Chen Lifu to arrest the hanjians 5 4 000 were arrested in Shanghai 6 and 2 000 in Nanjing 7 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 8 Uneducated Edit Taiwanese soldiers who fought in the Japanese military against Chinese forces and the Allies are also considered to be hanjian citation needed The Republic of China issued an important law in 1937 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 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 9 Several Taiwanese were prosecuted by the Nationalist government as hanjian despite a Judicial Yuan interpretation issued in January 1946 that advised against such action 10 After the Sook Ching Chinese 肅清 pinyin Suqing or ethnic cleansing by mass murder of Chinese opposed to the Japanese occupation of Singapore and Malaya in February March 1942 Tan Kah Kee 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 hanjians citation needed His proposal was adopted by the Second Legislative Yuan citation needed and was praised by Chinese resistance fighters Notable people called hanjians EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed August 2007 Learn how and when to remove this template message Qin Hui 1090 1155 Song dynasty chancellor who became notoriously known for treason for signing the Treaty of Shaoxing which reduced the Song to a vassal of the Jin He was also responsible for the killing of Yue Fei a Chinese general who won many victories against the Jin Wang Kemin 1879 1945 who collaborated with the Japanese during World War II and helped to establish the pro Japan Provisional Government of the Republic of China or North China Autonomous Government After the war he was arrested by the ROC government and tried for treason but committed suicide before his trial ended Demchugdongrub 1902 1966 commonly known as Prince De a Mongol leader who collaborated with the Japanese He was installed by the Japanese as the head of state of Mengjiang a Japanese puppet state in Inner Mongolia 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 who feel that he should not be deemed as a hanjian Wang Jingwei 1883 1944 a Kuomintang politician and former close aide of Sun Yat sen who advocated peace negotiations during the Second Sino Japanese War He set up the pro Japan Reorganized National Government of China in Nanjing with the help of the Japanese Zhou Fohai 1897 1948 the second in command of the Wang Jingwei government Executive Yuan He was convicted of treason after the war and sentenced to death but Chiang Kai shek commuted his sentence to life imprisonment He died of heart and stomach problems in jail Chen Gongbo 1892 1946 who served as the head of the Legislative Yuan of the Wang Jingwei government is seen as China s most prominent hanjian 11 Chen held important positions within the Reorganized Nationalist Government of the Republic of China and succeeded Wang Jingwei 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 Reorganized Nationalist Government of the Republic of China 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 12 He fled to Japan after the war but was extradited back to China where he was convicted of treason and executed Yoshiko Kawashima 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 who feel that she should not be considered a hanjian Yoshiko Yamaguchi 1920 2014 also known as Li Xianglan was one of the Seven Great Singing Stars After the war she was arrested and sentenced to death for starring in Japanese propaganda films but after Chinese authorities discovered her Japanese ancestry she was acquitted and deported to Japan As she was the daughter of Japanese immigrants some who do not consider her to be a hanjian Date Junnosuke 1892 1948 also known as Zhang Zongyuan was a sworn brother of Fengtian Clique warlord Zhang Zongchang who changed his nationality to Chinese in 1931 though he was of Japanese ethnicity He took over Jinan and led a massacre of around 400 people in 1939 In 1945 he created the ultimately unsuccessful Zhang Zongchang Unit After the war he was arrested for war crimes and executed by firing squad In popular culture EditIn Chiang Kai shek s Anti Communist and Anti Russian Aggression Song one part of the lyrics is 殺漢奸 meaning kill traitors Popularly most hanjian in Chinese films and drama series skits Hanjian are mostly the translators Sometimes they are also called the er guizi Chinese 二鬼子 lit second devils or jia yang guizi Chinese 假洋鬼子 lit fake foreign devils For example Chinese actor Chen Peisi s famous skit Zhujue yu Peijue 主角与配角 lit the main actor and the supportive actor Chen is acting as the supportive actor who is in a film that the character is the translator leading the way for Japanese Imperial Army The translator represents the Army officer to send a message to the Eighth Route Army officer whose actor would be Zhu Shimao that if he surrenders the Japanese officer will have a great beautiful offer for him 13 See also EditBoba liberal Treason Collaborationism Chinilpa Makapili Collaborationist Chinese Army Taiwanese Imperial Japan Serviceman Vichy France Quisling Benedict Arnold Uncle Tom Judas Jingri Việt gianReferences Edit a b c Xia Yun 2013 Engendering Contempt for Collaborators Anti Hanjian Discourse Following the Sino Japanese War of 1937 1945 Journal of Women s History 25 1 111 134 doi 10 1353 jowh 2013 0006 ISSN 1527 2036 S2CID 144816452 Brook Timothy 2007 Collaboration Japanese agents and local elites in wartime China Cambridge MA Harvard University Press p 245 ISBN 9780674023987 OCLC 77012551 Brook Timothy 2007 Collaboration Japanese agents and local elites in wartime China Cambridge MA Harvard University Press p 231 ISBN 9780674023987 OCLC 77012551 Fu Poshek 1993 Passivity resistance and collaboration intellectual choices in occupied Shanghai 1937 1945 Stanford CA Stanford University Press p 112 ISBN 0804721726 OCLC 27814882 Yomiuri Shimbun September 14 1937 page 7 Yomiuri Shimbun September 15 1937 second evening issue page 1 Gahō Yakushin no Nippon December 1 1937 The New York Times August 30 1937 page 3 Xia 2013 p 111 Han Cheung 13 January 2019 Taiwan in Time The Taiwanese hanjian problem Taipei Times Retrieved 13 January 2019 Zanasi Margherita June 2008 Globalizing Hanjian The Suzhou Trials and the Post World War II Discourse on Collaboration The American Historical Review 113 3 731 751 doi 10 1086 ahr 113 3 731 ISSN 0002 8762 Zanasi Margherita June 2008 GlobalizingHanjian The Suzhou Trials and the Post World War II Discourse on 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