I am wondering which one, China man or Chinese man, should I use for the below sentence.
Doing business in China requires deep understanding of its culture. But this China/Chinese man, although speaks the language, knows nothing about it.
My instinct is that "China man is better in here, but not sure.
What do you think?
'Chinaman' is usually written as one word, but is considered at best old-fashioned and at worst derogatory. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinaman_(term) . You should use 'Chinese man'.
It clearly has to be Chinese and not China.
China and Man are both Nouns and using them consecutively distorts the meaning of the sentence. Chinese is an adjective describing the man and hence is more suitable to use.
But this Chinese man, although speaks the language, knows nothing about it.
The sentence conveys that the man is Chinese (belongs to China) and speaks the language, however does not know anything about it.
Though there is no denial that few speakers tend to do such usage (China Man, India Man), however that's purely out of habit or local dialect. Linguistically is still stays incorrect.
