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The Qingtianese diaspora refers to the overseas Chinese and their descendants that are originated from Qingtian county, Zhejiang province, China.. Qingtian is renowned in China for its centuries-old diasporan communities, in which out of the county's 568,800 original inhabitants, as many as 381,000 of them are currently residing in 146 countries across the world, forming the bulk of Chinese ...
Huáqiáo (simplified Chinese: 华侨; traditional Chinese: 華僑) refers to people of Chinese citizenship residing outside of either the PRC or ROC (Taiwan). The government of China realized that the overseas Chinese could be an asset, a source of foreign investment and a bridge to overseas knowledge; thus, it began to recognize the use of ...
Chinese laborers in Peru - 1890. Workers who were shipped from the Spanish Philippines to Acapulco via the Manila-Acapulco galleons were all called Chino ("Chinese"), although in reality they were not only from China but also other places, including what are today the Philippines itself, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, East Timor and further afield such as India and Sri Lanka.
Overseas Chinese refers to people of Chinese ethnicity or national heritage who live outside the People's Republic of China or Taiwan as the result of the continuing diaspora. [31] People with one or more Chinese ancestors may consider themselves overseas Chinese. [32] Such people vary widely in terms of cultural assimilation.
Waves of Chinese emigration have happened throughout history. They include the emigration to Southeast Asia beginning from the 10th century during the Tang dynasty, to the Americas during the 19th century, particularly during the California gold rush in the mid-1800s; general emigration initially around the early to mid 20th century which was mainly caused by corruption, starvation, and war ...
The Chinese people have a long history of migrating overseas, as far back as the 10th century. One of the migrations dates back to the Ming dynasty when Zheng He (1371–1435) became the envoy of Ming. He sent people – many of them Cantonese and Hokkien – to explore and trade in the South China Sea and in the Indian Ocean.
華人 – Hoâ-jîn or Huárén—a generic term for referring to Chinese people, without implication as to nationality; 華僑 – Hoâ-kiâo or Huáqiáo—Overseas Chinese, usually China-born Chinese who have emigrated elsewhere; 華裔 – Hoâ-è or Huáyì—People of Chinese ancestry who were born in, residents of and citizens of ...
Chinese Caribbean people (sometimes Sino-Caribbean people ) are people who are of Han Chinese ethnic origin living in the Caribbean. There are small but significant populations of Chinese and their descendants in all countries of the Greater Antilles. They are all part of the large Chinese diaspora known as Overseas Chinese.