Subei people explained

Group:	Subei people
Native Name:	江淮民系
Total:	More than 29.76 million in China^[1]
Popplace:	China (Northern Jiangsu, Northern Yangtze Delta, Huizhou, and Shanghai)
Languages:	Mandarin Chinese (Jianghuai as primary, Standard as secondary)
Related Groups:	Jianghuai people, Huizhou people and other Han Chinese
Religions:	Atheism, Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, Christianity and Taoism

The Subei people, also known as Jiangbei People, are a Jianghuai Mandarin-speaking Han Chinese people of the Subei region (northern Jiangsu province).

Due to natural disasters and insurrections in their native region, during the Qing and the Republican periods, they migrated in large numbers to the Wu-speaking Jiangnan region (south of the Yangtze), especially Shanghai.^[2]

The Subei culture was seen a symbol of sophistication during the mid-Qing dynasty period, but lost its status after China entered Railway era instead of Canal Age.^[3]

Diaspora (outside of Jiangbei)

In the Ming Dynasty and Qing dynasties, Jianghuai speakers moved and settled into Hui dialect areas.^[4]

Notable people

• Zhou Enlai
• Jiang Zemin

Further reading

• Book: Emily Honig . Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850–1980 . registration . 1992 . Yale University Press . 978-0-300-05105-6.

Notes and References

1. http://www.jssb.gov.cn/tjxxgk/tjfx/tjxx/201202/t20120216_106747.html
2. Honig. Emily. The Politics of Prejudice: Subei People in Republican-Era Shanghai. Modern China. Jul 1989. 15. 3. 243–274.
3. Book: Hershatter, Gail. Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain. 147–154.
4. Book: Chinese Grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives . 2004 . . . Oxford University Press . illustrated, reprint . 0-19-927213-1 . 17 . According to Hirata, however, Hui is composed of many layers: its dialects are spoken in an area originally occupied by the Yue i* tribe, suggestive of a possible substrate, later to be overlaid by migrations from Northern China in the Medieval Nanbeichao period and the Tang and Song dynasties. This was followed by the Jiang-Huai Mandarin dialects of the migrants who arrived during the Ming and Qing periods, and more recently by Wu dialects in particular, acquired by peripatetic Hui merchants who have represented an active . 23 September 2011.