They were all Chinese and could become subjects of the Celestial Kingdom 
simply by donning the conservative garb of that tribe and showing due deference 
to any mandarins who happened by. No doubt this was exactly what they would do 
as soon as the Fists came to Pudong. Some of them might suffer deprivation, 
imprisonment, or rape, but within a year they would all be integrated into the 
C.K., as if the Coastal Republic had never existed.